The following is an excerpt from How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng. Listen to SciFri on May 8, 2015, to hear Cheng talk more about practical ...

How do you explain a topic as complicated and misunderstood as math to the general public? Professor Eugenia Cheng’s answer was to write a book about math using baking as a means of explaining fairly ...

Paula Gray stared at the bowl on the table and proclaimed, "It's alive!" to the McVay Elementary fourth- and fifth-graders seated in front of her. Gray wasn't rehearsing for some ghoulish Halloween ...

In the cafeteria of Paint Branch Elementary School in College Park, Md., this month, nearly 80 students were completely focused and smiling as Esther Arce-Reed tossed a roll of dough into the air ...