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Jay Ambrose: Please, please fix our schools

Oh no, please, say it isn’t true. But yes, of course it is, and it’s not exactly a surprise. We have had a report, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, showing that students in our schools are faring egregiously worse in reading and math than before COVID-19 interference, with two…

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Belagavi | Lingayat seer from Sri Guru Madiwaleshwar Mutt found dead

Sri Basava Siddalinga Swami was found dead in his quarters by his devotees in the early hours of September 5

The Hindu

Opinion: You may be doing basic math entirely wrong

Opinion: A viral math equation recently stumped the internet. But your answer to the problem may reveal a bigger issue with math as a whole.

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Kids’ math and reading scores dropped during the pandemic: national test data

Math and reading test scores for elementary students fell dramatically during the first two years of the pandemic, newly-released national standardized testing data shows.

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Reading and math scores fell sharply during pandemic, data show

The findings offer an early glimpse of the sheer magnitude of the learning setbacks dealt to the nation's children during the first two years of the pandemic.

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National test scores fall to lowest levels in decades

"Students in 2022 are performing at a level last seen two decades ago."

Axios

Reading, math scores fell sharply during pandemic, data show

A new national study finds math and reading scores for America's 9-year-old students fell sharply during the pandemic, underscoring the impact of two years of learning disruptions

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Students perceive themselves as a 'math person' or a 'reading person' early on – and this can impact the choices they make throughout their lives

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

The Conversation

The simple reason a viral math equation stumped the internet

For about a decade now, mathematicians and mathematics educators have been weighing in on a particular debate rooted in school mathematics that shows no signs of abating.

The Conversation

A car-less math teacher commutes four hours. Surprise! Look what his students gave him

LOS ANGELES — Math teacher Julio Castro thought he was late to the party when he walked in near the end of a faculty-appreciation assembly at YULA Boys High School. He wished he could have dropped his name into the raffle box.

Los Angeles Times

Love of maths earns Alappuzha native Guinness World Records title

Vivek Raj memorised a 28-digit number in four seconds

The Hindu

Nicholas Goldberg: Shakespeare, mathematics and the monkey who called 911

Have you heard about the monkey who called 911?

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Would forgiving student debt drive up inflation? Only if you're using lousy math

With a deadline looming in less than two weeks for President Biden to decide what to do about student debt, it shouldn't be surprising that conservatives have been agitating with increasing intensity against relief for the borrowers.

Los Angeles Times

Aliens could move entire planets to send a math-based code to other civilizations

Planets could be stacked such that their orbits resonate in the Fibonacci sequence.

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'I didn't really learn anything': COVID grads face college

After the disruption of online learning, first-year college students are arriving arrive on U.S. campuses unprepared for the demands of college-level work, experts say

Chicago Sun-Times

Organizers hope weekend race of electric go-karts will power careers in math and science among young women

“I’ve definitely had guys tell me this is a boy’s thing and I really don’t need to say anything to them. I just prove them wrong,” said Isabel Loza, 17, a senior in high school and a member of the Green Galaxy racing team.

Los Angeles Times

Can Hollywood figure out Gen Z? This summer's movies are a major test

LOS ANGELES — Here's a Hollywood math problem for you: Feature filmmaking as we know it is well over 100 years old. Members of Generation Z, defined by Pew Research Center as those born between 1997 and 2012, are now between 10 and 25. How long will it take the…

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Sisters describe sex abuse at Raleigh school. Did headmaster aid and abet?

A 14-year-old student was in a building known as the pottery shack at the Montessori School of Raleigh’s middle school campus. Also in the room was Nick Smith, a beloved and gregarious math teacher who students nicknamed “Senior.”

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Women are better at statistics than they think

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

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Jazz not interested in RJ Barrett

Jake Fischer: I've heard pretty consistently the Jazz don't really have much interest in trading for RJ Barrett and paying for him. Source: Apple Podcasts What's the buzz on Twitter? NBA Math @ NBA_Math NEW @HardwoodKnocks  KD (2:43)  Ranking ...

Los Angeles Times

Bernard Benedict James, aerospace engineer and Black WWII veteran, dies at 101

LOS ANGELES — Bernard Benedict James sat his young children down in the family living room decades ago in their La Mirada home, where he’d written a set of math equations on a blackboard.

Chicago Sun-Times

Give. Me. A. Break. with this week’s baseball quiz

Anyone who can do basic math knows we’re already past ‘first half’ of season, but here’s some before-the-break questions

Tribune News Service

Review: 'A Divine Language,' by Alec Wilkinson

NONFICTION: On the cusp of old age, a literary journalist confronts his mathphobia in this beguiling memoir.

Salon

Moms 4 Liberty: Warriors with big plans

At the Moms for Liberty summit, they gave Ron DeSantis a sword. That wasn't the strangest or scariest part by far

The Independent UK

Ron DeSantis explains why Florida banned ‘woke’ math books

‘Two plus two equals four right? Not two plus two equals well, how do you feel about that’

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