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Children's maths question sparks online debate as adults can't solve 'simple' problem

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Daily Record

COVID-19 hurt kids' math learning more than reading and writing – with the biggest setbacks in fall 2020

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The Conversation

Editorial: Education emergency: The falling NAEP scores show that COVID badly hurt how America’s kids are learning

The national test considered the gold standard of whether schoolchildren are gaining or slipping has delivered alarming news: Kids are backsliding in both math and reading. Thirteen-year-olds assessed in the fall of 2022 scored about the same in reading as those who took the test in 1971, when it was…

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America's education system is failing–but a growing school choice movement believes it has the solution

School choice programs mean that students aren't locked into attending a district public school based on home address.

Fortune

Proving Fermat's last theorem: 2 mathematicians explain how building bridges within the discipline helped solve a centuries-old mystery

On June 23, 1993, the mathematician Andrew Wiles gave the last of three lectures detailing his solution to Fermat’s last theorem, a problem that had remained unsolved for three and a half centuries. Wiles’ announcement caused a sensation, both within the mathematical community and in the media.

The Conversation

Math and reading scores for 13-year-olds in the US plunge

A test known as the ‘nation’s report card’ shows sliding academic performances for US students after the COVID pandemic.

Al Jazeera

New Test Data Show That COVID School Closures Rapidly Accelerated U.S. Learning Losses

Nearly two years after most children returned to the classroom, educational losses continue to grow.

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U.S. reading and math scores drop to lowest level in decades

Newly released data from national test scores in reading and math show a worrisome picture of student learning loss since the pandemic.

WEKU

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

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

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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.

Fortune

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.

Wales Online

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

TechRadar

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.

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Homes & Gardens

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

Android Central

Bard update improves reasoning skills, enables Google Sheets export function

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

LiveScience

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.

Tech&Learning

How Statewide Efforts Drive Math Achievement

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

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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