Jodi Gold of New York City uses the Bedtime Math app with her children. Photo: Bedtime Math Foundation For many families, reading is as much a part of summer as cookouts and camp. But as the weather ...

Another highlight was an eye-opening lecture titled, “100 years of elliptic curves” by Jennifer Balakrishnan, a distinguished mathematician renowned for her contributions to number theory.

The shift to Common Core is still rolling in at most high schools, with teens caught midstride in the traditional algebra-geometry path allowed to finish their journey, while incoming classes start ...