Tom Evert is a “teaching artist” who teaches math and geometry through the lens of interpretive dance at various Northeast Ohio schools. “We use dance to demonstrate our principles,” explained the ...

Cutting Sequences on the Double Pentagon, explained through dance from Diana Davis on Vimeo. This article has been updated to include results from the contest. Imagine walking in a straight line on a ...

Shake off that old stereotype about girls not being good at math. A new program for local middle school girls hopes to have them jumping, twirling and dancing their way to better grades and a boost in ...

Kern Dance Alliance (KDA) has launch the fall 2017 session of Shine for Girls: Math + Dance = SUCCESS (SHINE), an innovative, curriculum-based after-school program for middle school girls. Utilizing ...

For some students, math can be a tough subject. But now, some schools are offering math lessons in the form of dance, and the concept is taking off. The combination is the brainchild of dancer and MIT ...

Yamilée Toussaint has always been passionate about two seemingly unrelated things: dancing and mathematics. Growing up on Long Island in New York, as she pursued her diverse interests, she always had ...

The students in the SHINE for Girls dance program wear T-shirts that read "Every girl is good at math" on the front. On the back, "Math + dance = success." Run by two seniors at Pensacola High as part ...

Over the years, Kirin Sinha has heard the same question from her mostly male professors and classmates: “Why didn’t you get deterred along the way?” Sinha, a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Dance and math may seem like an unlikely combination, but the Kern Dance Alliance, set to offer a program pairing the two to help improve middle school girls’ test scores, is eager to demonstrate the ...

When 8-year-old Kate Andi went to see “The Nutcracker Suites” in Lawndale this week, she was looking for more than just whirling sugarplum fairies and dancing peppermints. She was also looking for ...

Toluwani Bademosi, 6, holds up a high-five gesture and waits for a computer program to recognize the pose and register a “match” during an educational workshop at Drexel University, Saturday, Nov. 15, ...