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Tom Krasovic: Peter Seidler is trying to finish the job that Ray Kroc began

Baseball scouts tell me their bosses can't figure out Peter Seidler's math. The riddle: how the Padres can afford such large player payrolls, without losing big money.

Tribune News Service

The history and mystery of Tangram, the children's puzzle game that harbours a mathematical paradox or two

Have you played the puzzle game Tangram?

The Conversation

LA students' grades are rising, but test scores are falling. Why the big disconnect?

LOS ANGELES — Claudia Chacon said her two children, who attend Fairfax High School, bring home good grades in math and English. But when she reviews their individual scores on California's statewide tests, she wonders what they are learning. The standardized exams have shown her boys do not meet grade-level…

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Esports seen as pathway to boost diversity in STEM careers

A growing effort to channel students' enthusiasm for esports toward preparing them for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math could address the lack of racial diversity in STEM careers

The Independent UK

2 cities pursued more school for kids. Only 1 pulled it off.

Facing massive pandemic learning loss, the superintendent in Richmond, Virginia, tried to remake one of the most untouchable aspects of school – the academic calendar

The Independent UK

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #41

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

Ballotpedia

Commentary: Becoming a father changes the brain. In a good way, actually

For better and for worse, the link between biological parents and their children is well known, from a child inheriting a mother’s wit and skill at math to inheriting a father’s nose and short temper. It turns out children also cause a change in a father’s brain, according to new…

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The 14 best TV shows of 2022

Well, friends, we have survived to (almost) the end of another year of television. TV is great, and also often terrible. But given how much of it there is, simple math tells us that there's still more worth watching than anyone not actually able to insert extra hours into the…

Los Angeles Times

ITV pundit Eni Aluko makes fun of maths mistake after Ian Wright leaps to her defence

Eni Aluko joked about her on-air mathematical error on ITV after she made a blunder whilst discussing Richarlison's stats, having been heavily defended by some of her colleagues

Daily Mirror

Max Homa, as only he can, compares the LIV Golf rumors to finding out about a high school fight in math class

Homa counted himself among the “fortunate,” who didn’t get caught in the rumor mill.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Illinois Math and Science Academy opens out-of-state, tuition-based enrollment

IMSA, which enrolls 650 Illinois students, said it would accept “a small group” of out-of-state students for the 2023-24 school year.

Chicago Sun-Times

Firefly swarms may have finally solved a 20-year-old scientific mystery

In the quiet woods, the synchronized flashes of fireflies and their dissonant counterparts may have illuminated a trove of new chimeras for mathematicians and physicists to chase.

Inverse

Cal State University poised to drop plan for tougher math admissions requirement

LOS ANGELES — California State University trustees are poised to abandon a proposal to require a fourth year of math-related coursework for admission, ending a plan introduced six years ago that touched off fierce criticism among many who said it would create barriers for students trying to enter the system.

Los Angeles Times

Teaching math through World Cup soccer

FIFA rules give you a good opportunity to explore combinatorics and logic puzzles.

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Math disparities start in kindergarten

Socioeconomic status greatly affects math scores, and this disparity starts in the first years of schooling

Daily Record

Cher says 40-year age gap relationship is 'strange' but 'love doesn't know math'

The Believe singer, 76, discussed her new romance with boyfriend Alexander Edwards, 36, and told fans "love doesn't know math".

Daily Mirror

Cher admits her 40-year age gap relationship is 'strange' but 'love doesn't know math'

Believe songstress Cher has admitted her 40-year age gap relationship with Alexander Edwards is 'strange on paper' but says 'love doesn't know math'

Salon

Why some students are "bad" at math

With math scores on the decline, a professor explains that math isn't a natural skill, but a learned one

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The Conversation

Math teachers in virtual classes tend to view girls and Black students as less capable

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

Tribune News Service

What went wrong? Kansas Republicans point fingers after Schmidt’s loss to Gov. Kelly

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt on Oct. 24 received what could have been a useful development in the extremely close contest for governor: National assessment scores measuring math and reading had fallen among Kansas students.

The Conversation

Disparities in advanced math and science skills begin by kindergarten

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

Chicago Sun-Times

The midterm’s biggest loser: Donald Trump

That lesson should have turned off anyone who can do basic math. In the all-important game of political addition, Trump is a divider, not a multiplier, and he is quite literally a loser.

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Week 10 Mountain West Football Power Rankings

Week 10 Mountain West Football Power Rankings Four teams earned a first-place vote Contact/Follow @MWCwire Craziness at the top This week took a lot of math - that could be more of a me thing. Boise State fell to BYU last week and that meant their ...

The Times of India

FTX-Binance dal: Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall stuns crypto world

Sam Bankman-Fried was supposed to be different than the run-of-the-mill crypto types. He was this wunderkind with a preternatural gift for math who had quickly built a crypto empire and then shrewdly expanded it during the worst of the industry’s meltdown this summer.

Tribune News Service

Jerry Zezima: Math confusion

Here is today’s test in basic arithmetic: If you had two grade-schoolers and one college graduate who happens to be the kids’ grandfather, and you gave each of them a math quiz, how many would flunk?

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