Dan Finkel runs Math for Love with his wife, Katherine Cook. They have developed two games: Tiny Polka Dot: A math-enriched card deck for 3- to 8-year-olds. “It’s really flexible,” Finkel said. You ...

In Erin Bryan’s 5th grade math classroom, TGIF takes on a whole new meaning. Fridays don’t just herald the coming weekend. They’re also game days. “They all come in here on Fridays pumped,” said Bryan ...

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In Gregory Smith’s 5th grade class in Tampa, Fla., two girls are beating the majority of their class in an online math-strategy game. That is remarkable given the original disparity between the two ...

This post was updated to clarify benefits of the program to Oakland Unified students. A growing number of students in Oakland Unified are learning math by playing a computer game that asks students to ...

This module can be used by students to hone their mental math skills using a variety of mathematical operations. The game goes through multiplication, addition, subtraction, algebra, and exponent ...

In 1974, a geneticist named Marsha Jean Falco devised an ingenious research tool to help determine whether epilepsy in dogs was an inherited trait. She drew a series of symbols on index cards, where ...

Rita was a Managing Editor at Android Police. Once upon a time, she was a pharmacist as well. Her love story with Android started in 2009 and has been going stronger with every update, device, tip, ...