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For decades, many students have sat in math classes wondering when they will ever use the lessons they are learning in real ...

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...

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Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed that it received an amended, unsolicited tender offer from Paramount Skydance to acquire all ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and compliance. And ...

Duah: Using puzzles, both at home and in classrooms, can restore the often-forgotten truth that learning happens in ...

Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian math genius who failed college but independently reinvented mathematics. His life, ...

The American consumer economy is increasingly powered by a narrow slice of households at the very top of the income ladder.

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In a new paper from OpenAI, the company proposes a framework for analyzing AI systems' chain-of-thought reasoning to understand how, when, and why they misbehave.

There’s a particular way people talk when the past suddenly taps them on the shoulder and asks for a favor. For Lou Gramm, it ...