EVERETT — As a kid he drew cartoons on his math papers. Now he draws math in his cartoons. What’s up with that? “I Hate Math” is a new comic book by Ian Brown, 37, a third grade teacher at Challenger ...

Superman may be able to fly, and Spider-Man may have Spidey Sense, but Jim McClain has an even more unlikely superpower. He gets kids to enjoy math. On a Thursday afternoon in late May, McClain stood ...

Comic books and graphic novels have found their places in many language arts and social studies classes. Now, more math teachers are starting to look for ways to incorporate these engaging, visually ...

Reader’s Digest calls him “America’s Best Math Teacher.” The Huffington Post calls him one of the world’s top 100 “Game-Changers.” Edward Burger simply calls himself “a passionate, imaginative, ...

Can you really learn relativity from a comic book? The Japanese have been using manga for decades to teach complex subjects, and now Americans are doing it too. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

ELKHART — A new deal has the power to propel a local math teacher’s educational comic book into new coordinates of popularity. Jim McClain, who teaches seventh-graders at North Side Middle School in ...

While it’s not unusual for comics to take on any subject, a new book coming from Bloomsbury in the fall will up the ante for using the comics medium to present a serious and complex subject in a ...