Let us teach math the way we teach music so every child can achieve their potential. In practice, this will mean providing small-group pull-outs that would mean hiring more teachers. If any district can do it, it is Cambridge Public Schools. 

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s hip-hop history, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and an Anarchist Woodstock, MIThenge, a cozy mystery and fall by a fireside, lessons from a baby owl and the science of “Eat, Poop, Die.”

There’s always hand-wringing when a favorite club closes its doors. Michael Gutierrez says the trope that the local music scene is losing venues is only sorta, kinda true.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an Illuminated Block Party, “Rocky Horror,” a Poetry Brothel and lots of other Halloween fun, Roxane Gay and Dallas Goldtooth, the Thrill Kill Kult and the exhibit “Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture.”

On Sunday, cuatro player Fabiola Méndez will open for herself – providing the soundtrack for the short film “Negrura,” a documentary she also produced.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, plant a Miyawaki Forest in Somerville, take in a “Dark Exhalation” of sci-fi opera or Sleeping Weazel’s Experimental Cabaret, celebrate Yuck Fest, eat a foraged banquet, hear the “Confessions of a Candy Snatcher” and gasp at Cirque of the Dead.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Honk! festival of activist street bands and Oktoberfest in Harvard Square, Devendra Banhart and Eugene Mirman, Kristen Emack talking about her “Cousins” photos and the arrival of “Sweeney Todd” in a new theater.

Public meetings this week look at asking giant businesses and institutions for housing aid; examining whether violations at The Middle East might shrink its open hours; making recreational cannabis permitting easier; a bridge over train tracks at Danehy Park; and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Cambridge Science Festival and carnival, the start of the Honk! festival of activist street bands, Central Square Dumpling Festival and “Smoke This” Rib Fest, Ashley Judd for Ms. Magazine and Walter Isaacson for “Elon Musk” and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Cambridge Science Festival doings, the annual Fluff festival, clown class, Black Biz, roller disco and John Coltrane from the Cambridge Jazz Foundation.