Mountain View High School Math Teacher Elliot Beck believes everyone can be a math person and he tries to show that to his students each day when they walk into his classroom.

Her classroom is a safe place to fail. When students are struggling, she takes the time to talk them through the problems.

The first time I had a column in the Valentine’s Day issue, I covered the mathematics of love; for this year’s issue, I thought it fitting to write about the love of mathematics. The math here will be ...