I’m going to preface this by saying that I am a writer. I majored in history and minored in fine arts in college. I can write my way out of jail, but I cannot add up the dinner bill to save my life.

Monday's front page on math techniques for teaching make one wonder where common sense has gone. Here we go again with another liberal touchy feely direction that diverts from traditional methods and ...

I am bad at math. This isn't exactly a news flash. I came to terms with my disdain of numbers long ago. Most definitely I was one of those people who sat through algebra and geometry classes muttering ...

Managing your financial life involves some basic math skills. Nothing terribly complicated, and it's stuff you probably learned by sixth grade. Here is a quick sample of a few items on the survey from ...

Two of America's most overexposed institutions--Dr. Ruth Westheimer and "For Dummies" books--have finally found each other. Now the publishers who brought you more than 200 how-to tomes (including ...

"Complete Idiot's Guide to Mortgages." "Complete MBA For Dummies." When I saw the titles of those new volumes at the "Complete Idiot's" and "For Dummies" Web sites, suddenly it became clearer why we ...

Most of us find that it is easier to remember a long list when it has been set to music. Someone has helpfully put this together for John McCain: ...

NU Online News Service, Dec. 12, 2003, 6:02 p.m. EST – John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken, N.J., has published "Managing Credit Risk In Corporate Bond Portfolios," a mathematics-driven book about ...

Just wondering -- how do OSU officials know when exactly 10,000 fans have passed through the stadium gates? The first 10,000 fans into the Horseshoe on Monday get to go onto the field for autographs ...