Statistical analyst and ex-NBA assistant coach Dean Oliver visits WIRED to answer sports math questions from the internet. What’s the most efficient shot to take on a basketball court? Are NFL running ...

A middle-school student using the Fantasy Sports Math League game, an engaging way to interest students in real world math using NFL player statistics Understanding mathematics is a fundamental skill ...

J.T. Young asks an interesting question in “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” op-ed, Sept. 8). One of my favorite ways to teach math to my children—my daughter and sons—is an activity we call ...

UNC’s Sports Analysis Intelligence Lab and the Department of Statistics and Operations Research hosted Tim Chartier for March MATHness on March 4. Millions of people make predictions and brackets for ...

While mathematics is a fundamental skill crucial to daily life, U.S. parents today see math education as boring, outdated, and disconnected from the real world. (1) At the national level, short and ...

Marc-Andre Fleury hasn't crunched the numbers to figure out what it'll take for the Wild to make the playoffs. "I haven't got that far yet," the goaltender said. If he did, the math would show the ...