Students enrolled in D.C. Public Schools during the 2012-13 academic year improved their math proficiency by 3.6 percent and reading proficiency by 3.9 percent over the previous school year.

Well, here’s a lottery result sure to turn some heads. Last night’s drawing for the D.C.-5 game was all sixes. Freaky.

As D.C. officials continue trying to turn around the city’s public school system, they had some good news to share yesterday—the annual Comprehensive Assessment System found that public school students saw increases in math and science, though gains in reading remained flat.

A teacher at a D.C charter school was fired last week after sending third-grade students home with a set of math questions that invoked dead children, witchcraft, human barbecues and vigilante justice. Knowledge is power.

Hot for Teacher: Erin Weaver and Cody Nickell get excited about math in Aaron Posner’s new production of “Arcadia.” A few years after Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld dominated network television with their “show about nothing,” Tom Stoppard astonished the theater with a play about everything. More specifically, the mathematical conceits that govern the ultimate predictability of everything. Or don’t. Learned opinion varies about the math. Not so vis-à-vis the play: Arcadia was hailed…