Veteran teacher Courtney Phillips discovered that math can be taught in an engaging way through the ancient game of mahjong, which requires strategy, analysis, problem solving, and math.

9-year-old, Linda Feinstein, sat on porch steps watching neighbors play Mahjong every night outside her family’s Coney Island bungalow. The sound of the tiles mesmerized Feinstein, and it interested ...

Give a friend a mahjong lesson, and you might score a free dinner. Teach mahjong, and you've got a career. Why it matters: As the centuries-old Chinese game finds new fans, instructors are in high ...

Cheryl Hopper, left, of East Washington, hosts mahjong twice a month, with friends and fellow players, clockwise, Carolyn Carson, Perri Slosky, and Helene Schroder attending. The Jewish Community ...

NORTH TEXAS — It's a craze sweeping the nation where each player has a wall of 13 to 14 tiles. Those who master the game of Mahjong said it teaches them critical thinking skills while reducing stress.

Interested in learning American mahjong? I offer free lessons in SaddleBrooke monthly for small groups of three students only—once a week for four weeks from October to April. My method of teaching ...

Allison Wall and Aimee Morse are building a local community of Mahjong players tile by tile. The two, who are both originally from Dallas and have each lived in Durango for over a decade, learned to ...

A clacking sound fills my friend’s dining room as our hands swirl the mahjong tiles on the table. It’s a cacophonous scene, the clacking meshing with the laughter, but it brings a smile to my face. I ...