Mr. Smith drove at a steady clip along the highway, his wife beside him. “Have you noticed,” he said, “that those annoying signs for Flatz beer seem to be regularly spaced along the road? I wonder how ...

Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6 1/2 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don’t use their fingers, suggesting that finger counting is an important stepping stone ...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — Online and distance learning can be tedious for some students, but one Pinellas County teacher is making it his mission for students and families to sing a different tune. “I ...

July 27 (Reuters) - Tom Lehrer, the math prodigy who became an influential musical satirist with his barbed views of American social and political life in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of ...

LOS ANGELES — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other ...