Parents learn how to make math fun at home

In daily life, parents have the opportunity to reinforce their child's math skills. Whether comparing prices at the grocery store or playing board games, everyday moments can help younger students see the connection between classroom and life applications.

Poker

Rising pro Olivier Busquet didn't like his play on the turn based on the math in this hand from the $25,000-buy-in World Poker Tour Championship at Bellagio in Las Vegas this year, but he gambled based on his read of 11-time World Series of Poker winner Phil Hellmuth. World Series of Poker - Phil Hellmuth - Las Vegas Nevada - Poker - Games

Low Grades In Adolescence Linked To Dopamine Genes

The academic performance of adolescents will suffer in at least one of four key subjects - English, math, science, history - if their DNA contains one or more of three specific dopamine gene variations, according to a study led by renowned biosocial criminologist Kevin M. Beaver of The Florida State University. The research sheds new light on the genetic components of academic performance during ...

Person by person

The Aug. 31 front-page article "Guidelines encourage minorities in math" is very instructive and tragic. It illustrates the problem with treating people as members of a group rather than as individuals.

Diversity, opportunity

I write with deep concern about your Aug. 31 article "Guidelines encourage minorities in math" - yet another conflation of the school diversity policy and achievement issues at hand in Wake County.