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 ...

In a new film, George Paul Csicsery shares Navajo children’s delight in summer math camp. Sound surprising? It is! Every summer Navajo children get up early and come from miles to a summer program at ...

A LITTLE BOY, NO OLDER THAN 8, almost leaps out of his chair, screaming, “It’s so easy! It’s so easy!” Standing at the front of his classroom, Robert Kaplan, a teacher and cofounder of the Math Circle ...

The countries that made up the Soviet Union, which collapsed in 1991, have produced many talented people. In particular, critic John Smith, based on the writings of mathematician Alexander Zvonkin, ...