I had never heard the term, “math circle,” until a few weeks ago when I stumbled across an article in The Atlantic about the growing number of American kids excelling in the highest levels of math. It ...

Evan O’Dorney leaps from his seat and snatches the chalk from his teacher’s hand. “I think it goes like this,” the eighth-grader exclaims. He has come up with a formula for the number of ways to ...

Divide the circumference of a baseball by its diameter and you get 3.14. Divide the circumference of Earth by its diameter and you get 3.14. Divide the circumference of a pizza, coin or, well, pie and ...