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Dive into one of the most wicked geometry problems and see it explained step by step in a clear, intuitive way. This lesson breaks down the hidden structure, key insights, and clever reasoning that ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Prince Rupert (left) and Jakob Steininger (right) credit, released as a courtesy of Mr. Steininger A pair of European mathematicians have proven a 300-year-old inference on shapes wrong, and won a bet ...