The Latest Breaking News from Math

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Dividing your assets into three different buckets — safety, income and growth — can help protect you from inevitable market downturns.

In the deepest corners of the right wing, the belief exists that teachers, textbook writers and publishing companies are conspiring to indoctrinate children. It starts with softening students up by talking about feelings. Then, their unsuspecting minds can be shaped to believe in climate change, COVID-19 vaccines, evolution and —…

MIAMI — When the Florida Department of Education announced it was rejecting 54 math textbooks, it pointed to a “thorough review” process that found more than half of those books included “prohibited topics,” including critical race theory and social-emotional learning.

Kendall Nunamaker and her family of five in Kennewick, Washington, faced impossible math this month: how do they pay for gas, groceries and their mortgage with inflation driving up prices

Dozens of state reviewers found no evidence of “prohibited topics” like critical race theory and social-emotional learning in math textbooks, a partial review of nearly 6,000 pages of book examinations shows. However, a much smaller number of reviewers did find examples they disagreed with on those topics.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Department of Education on Friday disputed an Orlando Sentinel/South Florida Sun Sentinel story about what math textbook reviewers found in the books, but the newspapers stand by their work.

“I’m in tears today,” said Laurie Stalheim, a science and math teacher at Sumner.

Canadian actress Clare Preuss played Marymount Prep Mathlete Caroline Krafft in the 2004 iconic coming-of-age film Mean Girls, but 18 years later even the most loyal fans might not recognise her from her latest Instagram snaps