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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

Math is a problem — one that a relentless onslaught of testing has not solved. Some assume kids are the ones failing, but it’s time to acknowledge that it’s our tests and the curriculum they determine ...

The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...

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Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

By Winifred KOTINFor many of us, mathematics was not a subject to love—it was a subject to pass so we could progress to the next academic stage. Through years of conversations with executives, ...