BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-ExaminerMath professor Sandra Fital-Akelbek (left) and students Jason Frekcleton (center) and Ben Sherman practice moves in a math dance class at Weber State University on ...

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 ...

Aug. 4—Before a crowd of their peers, dancers were asked to perform their routine they practiced all the week, but with a catch: perform all of it, then 30% of it and finally 70% of it. It was a dance ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tangroupe dancers Maura O’Leary and Robert Amy dance the tango during a “practica” session at the Calvary Episcopal Church in downtown Santa Cruz. Olena Tashkevych, 19, a math major at UCSC, enjoys ...

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 ...

It's a drum beat! It's a dance team! It's ... mathematics? For students and adults alike, merely the mention of math makes many feel faint. But several county educators have been spearheading ...