Allie Hays’ friends had a good laugh when they heard about the class she had signed up for at North Central College in Naperville: Mathematics of Square Dancing. Hays thought it was pretty funny ...

Tangroupe dancers Maura O’Leary and Robert Amy dance the tango during a “practica” session at the Calvary Episcopal Church in downtown Santa Cruz. Olena Tashkevych, 19, a math major at UCSC, enjoys ...

Figuring out the optimal mix of fun activities and academic tutoring in after-school programs is always a challenge, but a Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduate has created a program ...

Aug. 4—Before a crowd of their peers, dancers were asked to perform their routine they practiced all the week, but with a catch: perform all of it, then 30% of it and finally 70% of it. It was a dance ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - As the midshipmen stepped and hopped in front of her, Naval Academy math professor Sommer Gentry couldn’t help but dance. On a recent Tuesday in Smoke Hall, the Naval Academy’s ...

It's a drum beat! It's a dance team! It's ... mathematics? For students and adults alike, merely the mention of math makes many feel faint. But several county educators have been spearheading ...

For some students, math can be a tough subject. But now, some schools are offering math lessons in the form of dance, and the concept is taking off. The combination is the brainchild of dancer and MIT ...

Shake off that old stereotype about girls not being good at math. A new program for local middle school girls hopes to have them jumping, twirling and dancing their way to better grades and a boost in ...