Women make up nearly half of the college-educated workforce, but hold less than a quarter of STEM jobs — as in jobs that involve science, technology, engineering and math. Actress turned mathematician ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Danica McKellar is best known for her role ...

Let’s face it: For some of us, “math” can be a four-letter word. Math anxiety is all too real for folks in and out of school alike. For example, some frequent results for a recent Google search for ...

The actress who played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, Danica McKellar, is a self-proclaimed math advocate for girls who might otherwise shy away from a subject that Barbie once famously described ...

There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. Mathematics has long been presented as a sanctuary from confusion and doubt, a place to go in search of ...

This March 14, Short Wave is celebrating π... and pie! We do that with the help of mathematician Eugenia Cheng, Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and author of the ...