Writing about music, the saying goes, is like dancing about architecture. The implication is that even trying is futile and likely to make the person doing so look absurd. The line has been attributed ...

In a session called “A Marriage of Math and Reading,” two ELA teachers and their math-teacher husbands described the beginnings of a collaborative research study on the effects of incorporating ...

Pitici, a teacher of math and writing at Cornell University, continues the series he has edited since 2010, collecting another wonderful variety of mathematical writings, this time with a distinct ...

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Living through the COVID-19 pandemic requires some serious math literacy. There’s a daily dose of statistics on the number of new cases, and constant talk of “flattening the curve” of infections. But ...

The summer between my junior and senior years of college, I took a chance. Though I was a math major, and saw myself as anything but a writer, I decided to enroll in a study abroad program in Italy ...