From haikus to math journals and comic strips, there are major benefits when writing is infused into the math curriculum.

Despite the greatest strides in mathematics, these hard math problems remain unsolved. Take a crack at them yourself.

Areas of pure math such as algebra, analysis, combinatorics and many others can be used—in some cases combined—to solve the complex math problems arising from applications of math to the real world.

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...