Statistical analyst and ex-NBA assistant coach Dean Oliver visits WIRED to answer sports math questions from the internet. What’s the most efficient shot to take on a basketball court? Are NFL running ...

While mathematics is a fundamental skill crucial to daily life, U.S. parents today see math education as boring, outdated, and disconnected from the real world. (1) At the national level, short and ...

J.T. Young asks an interesting question in “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” op-ed, Sept. 8). One of my favorite ways to teach math to my children—my daughter and sons—is an activity we call ...

HANOVER − The magic of math and the competitive spirit of sports captured Nicole Downs at an early age. Both would help define her life. Her younger sister Kelly Downs, 36, now women's lacrosse coach ...

Multiplication and long division rarely get pep rallies. But Michaela Sicuranza, a 5th grade teacher at Sinking Springs Elementary, in York, Pa., thinks building an exciting, competitive identity ...

In the dynamic arena of sports betting, the art and science of how bookmakers make money unfold as a captivating narrative of mathematics, probability theories, and strategic prowess. Beyond the ...

Students at Hurt Park Elementary received a unique lesson this week by combining math with the growing sport of pickleball. Roanoke Valley’s professional pickleball team visited the school on Monday, ...

This article was originally published in Hechinger Report. Before she got to the math in her lesson on linear equations last fall, Sydney Kealanahele asked her class of eighth graders on Oahu why kalo ...