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While building a simpler model for particle interactions, scientists made a sleek new pi. Representations of pi help scientists use values close to real life without storing a million digits. The ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet climatologist and mathematician Mikhail Budyko set out to investigate the potential future of a planet on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. He started by looking some 600 ...

The latest results from the so-called Nation’s Report Card are out, and they paint a sobering picture of academic achievement across the country. The National Center for Education Statistics has ...

As routines for the new school year get underway, many parents are looking forward to getting to know their child’s teacher and finding out what reading and writing assignments will be coming home.

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Can you chip in? The Internet Archive is introducing peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising —a giving platform that allows individual supporters to host personalized campaigns to fundraise for the Internet ...

Scholars highlight India’s foundational contributions to mathematics, including zero, sine functions, Pythagoras’ theorem and the fibonacci sequence, documented in ancient manuscripts long before ...

At the beginning of my teaching career as a middle school math teacher, test prep days were dreadful. Students would write down what I was writing on their review that hadn’t been touched since they ...

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