Ben Vesely taught math at Valhalla High School for decades. He was known as “BV2” or “BV squared,” and his students loved him. Some of the comments on ratemyteachers.com explained his appeal: “Mr.

Do you know your geometry from your arithmetic and your fractions from your logs? Let’s find out! Think of this as a math class without the quizzes, where every problem has a twist solution, every ...

A topologist walks into a cafe: — Can I have a doughnut of coffee, please? This is a joke written by the Soviet-American mathematician Tanya Khovanova, who lectures in mathematics at the Massachusetts ...