My family has been longtime fans of the Museum of Math, meeting the team behind this hands-on museum long before it had a ...

The Wheel of Fire. Square-wheeeled trikes. The Twist 'n' Roll. Hyper hyperboloids. No, it's not a traveling circus, it's MoMath, the nation's only museum of mathematics, which opens Saturday in New ...

Math is key to everything, from music and art to the sequencing of traffic lights and the scheduling of package deliveries. Just figuring out the order in which you’ll run a bunch of errands involves ...

Squealing schoolchildren ride a square-wheeled tricycle and a “Coaster Roller” that glides over plastic acorns. Downstairs, they fit monkey magnets together at the “Tessellation Station.” This is how ...

Back in July -- when temperatures were more forgiving -- I saw a preview of the Robot Swarm that would be landing at the New York City Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) this winter. Both the calendar and ...

NEW YORK – Mathematics. It's a subject that can elicit groans and exclamations of "boring." But Glen Whitney, a former hedge-fund quantitative analyst, is betting he can change that with a formula ...

It's crazy but true (insert comment about terrible U.S. math scores here). Glen Whitney and Cindy Lawrence are doing something about it. "Math is not considered cool in the United States," Lawrence ...

Opened in 2012, the Museum of Mathematics is the only museum in the country dedicated to math. From the moment museum visitors pull on the door handles in the shape of the symbol for pi, they enter a ...

If you enter Madison Square Park in New York City from the south end, your eye will be immediately drawn to the latest sculpture installation, Buckyball, by artist Leo Villareal. These nesting ...