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Babies May Not Get the Concept of 'Zero,' but Bees Do
Dolphins, monkeys, birds, and homo sapiens have a shared understanding of a quite difficult concept, and now honeybees are joining the party. Per a release , that concept is "zero," an abstract...
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His $1M Math Solution Isn't Going Over Well
Michael Atiyah is an acclaimed mathematician who has won some of the top prizes in his field, and he now claims to have cracked a 159-year-old problem called the Riemann hypothesis. If he's right,...
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A Cubed Number Puzzle Is Solved. Only One Is Left
For more than half a century, modern mathematicians have been trying to crack two stubborn numbers problems—and a UK professor just solved one of them. As Live Science explains, the problem itself...
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Tribune Wrote About Jeopardy! Whiz ... When He Was 4
Long before he was racking up win after win —and oodles of cash—on Jeopardy! , James Holzhauer was impressing an entirely different demographic: his preschool teachers. The Chicago Tribune has...
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Brian Williams Makes an Enormous Math Goof
"Bad math" might be understating it here. MSNBC's Brian Williams had to issue an on-air mea culpa after repeating a wildly incorrect claim about Michael Bloomberg's wealth. In an interview with New...
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National Exams Postponed Till 2022
Because so many students are learning remotely or attending schools that are limiting visitors during the pandemic, nationwide tests for fourth and eighth graders will be delayed until 2022. The math...
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'Nation's Report Card' Offers 'Sobering' Pandemic Update
It's undisputed that kids had a rough time of it during the pandemic. Now, results from national tests show just how rough, at least in terms of how their academic skills have suffered. The "nation's...
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Just One Teen on the Planet Aced This Test
On planet Earth, some 270,000 students took the AP Calculus AB exam in May 2022. About 20% of them scored a 5, which is the highest score possible. But Felix Zhang did something no one else did: The...
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Test Scores for US Students Are 'Appalling'
A federal assessment of US students known as the "nation's report card" is out, and the results are pretty bleak. Scores are down in reading and math—especially math—across the country, with the...
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