Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Math problems take on new meaning in this class that combines rhymes and verse with math instruction. ra2studio via Getty Images I ...

Reading poetry to learn math? On a recent afternoon, students at Darlington Elementary School did just that as children’s author Greg Tang used rhymes, puzzles and games aimed at making it easier to ...

Aimed at kids drawn to math, poetry, irreverence or any combination thereof, J. Patrick Lewis's latest collection has fun with famous verse by adding numerical twists. Each poem is a math brainteaser, ...

A librarian at Colorado College, Jessy Randall, 54 would often pore through books on historical women in science. She had read several biographies, memoirs, scientific articles, which prompted the ...

Rare, geeky form of poetry? THAT'S exactly what happened after Gregory K. Pincus, a screenwriter and aspiring children's book author in Los Angeles, wrote a post on his GottaBook blog ...

What prompted the idea for the course? I have always enjoyed writing poetry. As a high school mathematics teacher, I recall telling my students that everything is and can be connected to math, even ...