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Why putting off college math can be a good idea

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The Conversation

Bo Nickal comfortable with historic betting odds for UFC 290 fight: ‘The math checks out’

Bo Nickal admits "it's pretty crazy" that he's the biggest betting favorite in UFC history at UFC 290, but he thinks it makes sense.

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Complex math won’t get in the way of a Lillard deal. Heat practically invented it.

MIAMI — Standing as a destination of choice is nothing new for the Miami Heat. It has allowed Pat Riley to reel in some of the biggest names in the NBA over a stewardship of the franchise now into a third decade.

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What is Legends of Learning and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips & Tricks

Legends of Learning is a curriculum-aligned math and science games resource for students.

Tech&Learning

Editorial: Why accountability matters so much to Florida’s schools and vouchers

The grim news courses through the latest Nation’s Report Card: Half a century of educational “progress” has yielded no progress at all. The National Center for Education Statistics’ long-term trend assessments for American 13-year-olds in math and reading make for tough reading. The upshot? Reading scores fell to where they…

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Media Math and Myth: Password, Please (Schley)

In clamping down on credential-sharing, Netflix may lose millions of customers. And gain even more

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Maths teacher in tears over nickname students used in class - after figuring out joke

The educator went a whole year without realising the meaning behind the nickname chosen for them by their students. But when social media users helped the inquisitive teacher, there wasn't a dry eye in the house

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Kids Do Better In Math When Music Is Involved: Study

The author points out that math and music have much in common, such as the use of symbols and symmetry.

Zenger

STEM workshops gets students behind the wheel in an eRacing simulator

Chicago-area students take part in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math course with hands-on racing time and a chance to build a component for an automobile.

Chicago Sun-Times

Final Fantasy 14 crafters despair after discovering in-game calculator following years of manual math

Always read the patch notes, gang

GamesRadar

Children's maths question sparks online debate as adults can't solve 'simple' problem

Did you guess the right answer? Let us know in the comments below.

Daily Record

COVID-19 hurt kids' math learning more than reading and writing – with the biggest setbacks in fall 2020

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The Conversation

Editorial: Education emergency: The falling NAEP scores show that COVID badly hurt how America’s kids are learning

The national test considered the gold standard of whether schoolchildren are gaining or slipping has delivered alarming news: Kids are backsliding in both math and reading. Thirteen-year-olds assessed in the fall of 2022 scored about the same in reading as those who took the test in 1971, when it was…

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America's education system is failing–but a growing school choice movement believes it has the solution

School choice programs mean that students aren't locked into attending a district public school based on home address.

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Proving Fermat's last theorem: 2 mathematicians explain how building bridges within the discipline helped solve a centuries-old mystery

On June 23, 1993, the mathematician Andrew Wiles gave the last of three lectures detailing his solution to Fermat’s last theorem, a problem that had remained unsolved for three and a half centuries. Wiles’ announcement caused a sensation, both within the mathematical community and in the media.

Al Jazeera

Math and reading scores for 13-year-olds in the US plunge

A test known as the ‘nation’s report card’ shows sliding academic performances for US students after the COVID pandemic.

Reason

New Test Data Show That COVID School Closures Rapidly Accelerated U.S. Learning Losses

Nearly two years after most children returned to the classroom, educational losses continue to grow.

WEKU

U.S. reading and math scores drop to lowest level in decades

Newly released data from national test scores in reading and math show a worrisome picture of student learning loss since the pandemic.

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Take a look at the shocking stats showing what the pandemic did to children’s education: ‘There are signs of risk for a generation of learners’

The drops in test scores were the largest ever recorded. The math score for 13-year-olds dropped the most in 50 years, to a 1990 level, and reading has gone back to 2004.

The Independent UK

American teens post lowest reading and math scores in decades

The pandemic is only part of the reason why scores appear to be worsening

Reason

Arkansas Ban on Gender Transition Treatments for Minors Ruled Unconstitutional

Plus: New rules limit asylum applications, the bad math behind economic doomerism, and more...

Axios

Middle schoolers' reading and math scores plummet

Scores have been dropping for a decade.

The Independent UK

Math scores plunge for 13-year-olds as pandemic setbacks persist

Math and reading scores among America’s 13-year-olds fell to their lowest levels in decades, with math scores plunging by the largest margin ever recorded

Daily Mirror

Students utterly baffled by 'sadistic' final question in GSCE maths paper- can you crack it?

Pupils 'furious' over a painfully difficult math question on their GCSE paper, which asks them to find the 'shaded area' of a peculiar-looking shape

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Morgan State investigating professor who asked Jeffrey Epstein for millions in exchange for Black community support

A Morgan State University math professor offered Jeffrey Epstein a chance to improve his reputation in the Black community for $5 million in 2019. The university said it did not participate in the solicitation and is investigating the matter.

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