In "Madden NFL: Football by the Numbers," which will go live on Dec. 1, students must rely upon math and science concepts to successfully complete football plays.

In “Madden NFL: Football by the Numbers,” which will go live at www.footballbythenumbers.discoveryeducation.com on Dec. 1, students must rely upon math and science concepts to successfully ...

John Urschel joins the program.Walter Isaacson sits down with John Urschel, a rising star who walked away from a lucrative football career in the NFL to pursue a doctorate in mathematics at MIT.

He trains and plays football in Baltimore, and he pursues a doctorate in applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “I do math, and I play football, and that’s about it,” ...

His grade-point average was and still is a 4.0, even as he has spent his fifth-year senior season working toward a second master's -- in math education -- and playing football.