Plans for the creation of a £5.3billlon infrastructure trust have been abandoned after a growing investor backlash. London-listed HICL Infrastructure and The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) ...

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A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher Cara Bearden braces herself for any equation that yields the two numbers, knowing her students will immediately scream them ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

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This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.

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Mumbai: India, said Fields medallist Manjul Bhargava, must fall in love with mathematics again. Not as a "drudgery of formulas" but as an act of "exploration."Bhargava, Canadian by nationality but of ...