Back when I was in middle school, there were four days of the year that we considered to be better than Christmas – the four half-days when teachers had their super-secret staff meetings. Thanks to ...

French bulldogs are some pretty intelligent canines. As we are sure many Frenchie parents will tell you, these muscular little canines exhibit some pretty remarkable instinctive and adaptive ...

The N.B.A. draft at Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, is a scene of family happiness that feels both intensely cathartic and also overdetermined. The players sit at round tables before an enormous stage; ...

A critically acclaimed French film tackles a popular belief that mathematics is a difficult subject to learn and useless once people pass the test to enter university. The documentary, dubbed "How I ...

MARSEILLE, France - Nearly 18,000 pages of notes by eccentric French math genius Alexandre Grothendieck were posted online Wednesday by his alma mater, Montpellier University in southern France.

Starting in the 1930s, Nicolas Bourbaki published dozens of papers, becoming a famous mathematician. There was just one problem: He didn't exist. Author and scholar Amir Aczel talks about the genius ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. BEZIERS, France — A depressed French math teacher set herself on fire in a high school playground on Thursday ...

He is the fifth French Abel winner since the award was created by Norway's government Paris: For Michel Talagrand, who won the Abel mathematics prize on Wednesday, maths provided a fun life free from ...

Louisiana's French heritage is being embraced in many immersion classrooms in the state. It goes beyond language -- some students are learning math, science and social studies in French. Sue Lincoln ...

In an opinion piece for 'Le Monde', university professor Nathalie Sayac bemoans that future common core mathematics programs will not meet the objective of restoring 'math for all'. The teaching of ...