Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — Online and distance learning can be tedious for some students, but one Pinellas County teacher is making it his mission for students and families to sing a different tune. “I ...

LOS ANGELES — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other ...

Lucy calmly assures Charlotte that she doesn't have to do anything she doesn't want to do, and then asks what it is that drew her to her husband-to-be in the first place, and Charlotte confesses: This ...

The pop songs you love might feel so catchy they’re magic, but their ability to get stuck in your head isn’t fairy dust and sparkles: it’s melodic math. Music researchers use melodic math to refer to ...