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 ...

When La Jolla High student Sarah Herrmann was in China this summer for a math competition, she not only won a medal. She also heard languages like Russian and China that she couldn’t understand. But ...

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 ...

Torrey Pines High School senior Derek Liu was named a Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar, one of two recent academic accomplishments he’s had over the last year. “It’s an honor to have this ...

Frank Morgan of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., recently illustrated such difficulties when he invited an audience of mathematicians, students, and others to vote on which one of a given pair ...

Zhao and Li make up just one of the parent-child combinations attending what are in all but name, math olympiad classes. "I hope he can win awards at math competitions, after taking the extra teaching ...

After a 21-year drought, the United States has now won the prestigious high school math competition known as the International Math Olympiad for two years running. The team took home first place at ...

IMPA Director Marcelo Viana estimates that some 10% of participants are women, a percentage close to that of 2016, when 71 of the 602 contestants were femaleTânia Rêgo The 58th International ...