On the night of a big storm, I was trying to shift my son’s focus from his fear of severe weather to an exercise in counting. Using a trick I had learned as a child, we started measuring the time ...

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This past academic year, more than 1 million students experienced Mystery Science in their classrooms. Elementary teachers in more than 10% of schools in the U.S. are using this program because the ...