Hi, it’s me, the English major–the one who managed to avoid ever taking another math class after sophomore year in high school. That’s right, after struggling through Algebra 2, I tossed my calculator ...

Last night, my fourth grader didn’t want to do his homework. “Nothing I learn in school matters in the real world!” he complained. “Why will I ever need to know what 378 times 7 is?” After explaining ...

He was supposed to be working on long-form multiplication problems—457 x 214, 378 x 29, 112 x 978—and my son kept asking me to check his answers. But it had been so long since I’d written out any math ...