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The latest national test scores show that Maryland’s K-12 students are performing below average in math. Maryland’s fourth ...
Well-meaning efforts to assess learning accurately have led some schools to set 50 as the lowest grade, but that can have ...
This simple activity engages students in math talk and reasoning—and shows them there's not always a right answer.
The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.
Creative problem-solving can be an exhilarating experience. You get a triple benefit: the euphoric 'aha' moment of solving a ...
It all starts with something called the Kakeya conjecture. A “conjecture” is a math guess—an idea that seems true, but nobody ...
STEVEN STROGATZ: No, that’s a question that people ... what is it we’re trying to do when we do math? Are we looking for answers? Are we looking for proofs? Do we want to solve problems? Those are all ...
Let's get this won. The answer to the April 3 (1384) Wordle is SHEAR. By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & ...
The Growing Need for AI in Education Let’s face it—homework isn’t always fun. After a long day at school, the last thing you want is to spend hours struggling with assignments.  But skipping homework ...
Reasoning models—those AIs like Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek R1 -- that show their step-by-step ...
Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are ...
"I was educated in a red state and spent most of my teaching career in red states. Every second I spent in those systems was ...