Jami Jorgensen is the human jukebox of quadratic equations. “Anything that’s an algorithm, I have a song for it,” said the energetic middle-school math teacher in Hayward Unified, in the east Bay Area ...

The world is a classroom for 15-year-old Palo Alto resident Sahana Vasudevan. On a given day the home-schooled teen — recently named a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search — might study ...

Dr. Lana Israel's Muzology program is helping kids learn pre-algebra, one fizzy music video at a time. By Steve Knopper The ninth-graders in Shirley Forehand’s classes are terrified of fractions — but ...

Below left: The figure shows how geometrical music theory represents four-note chord-types -- the collections of notes form a tetrahedron, with the colors indicating the spacing between the individual ...

From the rich complexity of the Bach fugues to the catchy songs of the Beatles, music and mathematics overlap in all kinds of interesting ways. Beyond the basic uses of mathematics in music theory and ...

College Algebra is a major barrier to degree completion, but redesigning math experiences to focus on real-world applications ...

In math, Algebra 1 is a make-or-break course. The class is the gateway to high school math, and struggling to complete it can close off those higher-level pathways—and even jeopardize students’ ...

‏Jami Jorgensen is the human jukebox of quadratic equations. “Anything that’s an algorithm, I have a song for it,” said the energetic middle-school math teacher in Hayward Unified, in the east Bay ...