Aug. 4—Before a crowd of their peers, dancers were asked to perform their routine they practiced all the week, but with a catch: perform all of it, then 30% of it and finally 70% of it. It was a dance ...

Over the years, Kirin Sinha has heard the same question from her mostly male professors and classmates: “Why didn’t you get deterred along the way?” Sinha, a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Florida State University’s Opening Nights and Leon County Schools teamed up this week to offer elementary and middle school teachers a creative new tool to teach math, in partnership with the John F.

Dance and math may seem like an unlikely combination, but the Kern Dance Alliance, set to offer a program pairing the two to help improve middle school girls’ test scores, is eager to demonstrate the ...

Math teachers often struggle for ways to bring the discipline to life for students, but some South Middleton School District students experienced the vibrancy of math in an unlikely medium — dance.

Woodcrest Elementary School first-grade teacher Lynn Verdusco quickly applied what she had learned at a recent workshop to give her students new tools for understanding math concepts. On Wednesday, ...

Shake off that old stereotype about girls not being good at math. A new program for local middle school girls hopes to have them jumping, twirling and dancing their way to better grades and a boost in ...

As the midshipmen stepped and hopped in front of her, Naval Academy math professor Sommer Gentry couldn’t help but dance. On a recent Tuesday in Smoke Hall, the Naval Academy’s Swing Dance Club was ...

The children puffed out their chests and mimicked drama teacher Melissa Richardson, rehearsing their big, booming “rhino voices.” “Giant steps, giant steps, big and bold!” the kindergartners yelled in ...