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 ...

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 ...

Michelle Manes has taught math in almost every setting. She taught public high school students, deaf elementary school students, and middle school girls at a single-sex school. But eventually, she ...

At 13 years old, O’Dorney won the 80th Scripps National Spelling Bee and shook hands with then-President George W. Bush in the Oval Office. In 2011, O’Dorney met then-President Barack Obama, this time ...