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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.

Fortune

American teens post lowest reading and math scores in decades

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

The Independent UK

Arkansas Ban on Gender Transition Treatments for Minors Ruled Unconstitutional

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

Reason

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Middle schoolers' reading and math scores plummet

Scores have been dropping for a decade.

Axios

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

The Independent UK

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

Daily Mirror

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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Parents financially supporting their adult children are ruining their retirements and raiding their savings

Thinking about shutting the Bank of Mom and Dad? Sit down with a calculator and a calendar and do the maths.

Fortune

This year's maths SATs were so hard even AI can't get the answers right

Children had just 50 seconds per question to tackle the tough challenge

Wales Online

Google Bard is catching up to Chat GPT in coding, reasoning, and math

A new blog post from Google reveals that it's updating Bard's reasoning, coding, logic, and math capabilities.

TechRadar

Do coffee makers really save you money in the long run? The math says yes

Do coffee makers save money? I spoke with experts to find out whether these luxuries can be a treat for your tastebuds and your bank balance

Homes & Gardens

Bard update improves reasoning skills, enables Google Sheets export function

Google has announced that Bard is improving mathematical tasks, coding questions, and string manipulation.

Android Central

Mathematicians end decades-long quest to find elusive 'vampire einstein' shape

Researchers have discovered a new 14-sided shape called the Spectre that can be used to tile a surface without ever creating a repeating pattern, ending a decades' long mathematical hunt.

LiveScience

How Statewide Efforts Drive Math Achievement

South Carolina educators talk about how state resources and technology have helped their math instruction.

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The Hindu

Thiruvavaduthurai Math | A renowned seat of Tamil language and culture

The Delhi event has brought the Math to the limelight and offered it an opportunity to ponder over its great tradition and the task ahead.

The Independent UK

Stony Brook University gets $500 million from hedge fund founder who taught math there

Stony Brook University in New York will receive $500 million from a philanthropic foundation started by a hedge fund billionaire who once taught math there

The Hindu

When Einstein thought he was wrong but Feynman convinced physicists otherwise

The debate on whether gravitational waves were real of figments of mathematics raged for decades, until Richard Feynman devised an ingenious thought-experiment in 1957 that settled the matter once and for all.

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Michael Block wasn’t the only one who had his biggest payday at the 2023 PGA Championship. His caddie did too

Caddie John Jackson did some math on the calculator app on his phone after Block finished T-15.

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Fortune

Caroline Ellison: How a young math whiz with an appetite for risk became a major player in Sam Bankman-Fried’s corrupt crypto empire

After the fall of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the trading firm she ran, Alameda Research, the 28-year-old became an unlikely celebrity—and a public villain.

WEKU

New Explorium of Lexington exhibit aims to make STEM fun

A new exhibit that opened Wednesday at the Explorium of Lexington is designed to show kids that learning STEM skills – science, technology, engineering and math – can actually be fun.

Guitar World

The Beatles’ “first left-handed bassist”, Chas Newby, dies aged 81

The bass player and former math teacher was subbed into the Liverpool legend’s early lineup in December 1960 and played one of the most formative shows of the era

Los Angeles Times

LAUSD shakes up a highly praised academic initiative, angering parents and teachers

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles public school program that officials portrayed as a major success for helping struggling young students improve academically is being substantially dismantled by Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, who says it's too costly and not particularly effective.

Fortune

7 CEOs share how generative A.I. is reshaping business—from booking travel to writing code

The buzz around the technology is "palpable," yet some are still playing it safe.

Axios

Biden and McCarthy's shared debt ceiling math problem

“It’s one thing to strike a deal, then you got to pass it."

Sports Illustrated

Shaq Stunned the ’NBA on TNT’ Crew With Hilarious Admission About His Bad Math

He was right—this is the funniest show ever.

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