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Two Tennessee school districts bucked the national trend of middle school math scores failing to recover from pandemic-era slides. Credit: Andrea Morales for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

A mathematician has solved a 200-year-old maths problem after figuring out a way to crack higher-degree polynomial equations ...

Some students at Harvard are playing catch-up on a year-long remedial math course aimed at rectifying a "lack of foundational" skills believed to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic ...

An economist Donald Trump cited in calculations for his extra-high global tariffs says that the president should get an F- in math. University of Chicago economics professor Brett Neiman was a ...

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On the 100th anniversary of the last shooting of a wild grizzly in the state, you’ve got to wonder why the bears we exterminated were made the symbol of the state. My research shows that a ...

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