Extra pages of math problems — really hard ones — to be worked out after school and on weekends are the stuff of high school nightmares. The teacher who can make that sound like fun and then make it ...

Whenever March 14 rolls around, I think of the best math teacher I ever knew. Why March 14? That is Pi Day, 3.14. One of the formulas that math students learn is ∏ r2, or pi times the radius squared, ...

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