OAKLAND, Calif. - The sound of sewing machines isn't just about stitching at the Rock, Paper, Scissors Collective studio space in downtown Oakland. It's also about mathematics in the making for ...

There's an old saying that to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So it's not surprising that when math teacher Caroline Jones was making a quilt, everything looked like numbers. "One ...

It started as an idea for a simple geometry project, but it became a yearlong endeavor that turned 21 pupils into quilters, historians and curators. Two Carroll County teachers wanted pupils in their ...

For the past nine years, Molly McCarthy, fourth-grade teacher at St. Francis Xavier School in Petoskey, has taught her students how math can be applied in unexpected ways. The students in her class ...

A QUILT designed by math students might conjure up images of addition signs and fractions floating on a field of Roman numerals. But the quilt made by a Long Reach High School math class is filled ...