Florida State University’s Opening Nights and Leon County Schools teamed up this week to offer elementary and middle school teachers a creative new tool to teach math, in partnership with the John F.

Math teachers often struggle for ways to bring the discipline to life for students, but some South Middleton School District students experienced the vibrancy of math in an unlikely medium — dance.

Tom Evert is a “teaching artist” who teaches math and geometry through the lens of interpretive dance at various Northeast Ohio schools. “We use dance to demonstrate our principles,” explained the ...