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Revamped calculus course improves learning, study finds

Calculus is the study of change. Calculus teaching methods, however, have changed little in recent d ...
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Quasi-regular Rhombic Tiling and Polyhedron

It could be argued that the square is the ‘nicest’ rhombus, but the rhombus with angles ...
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Children’s positive attitude toward mathematics fades during the early school ...

Children’s interest in, and competence perceptions of, mathematics are generally quite positiv ...
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Smart learning software helps students study math during lockdowns and ...

Intelligent tutoring systems for math problems helped pupils remain or even increase their performan ...
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‘Models of everything’ created to improve accuracy of long-term weather ...

People love to complain about the weather ā€“ and especially about weather forecasters. But real, accu ...
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Theorem of Everything: The Secret That Links Numbers and Shapes

For millennia mathematicians have struggled to unify arithmetic and geometry. Now one young genius c ...
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Infinity War: The Ongoing Battle Over The World’s Hardest Maths ...

Is there an error in there somewhere? Itā€™s the stuff of Hollywood. Somebody somewhere is surely sell ...
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Theoretical study offers proof that one parallel world cannot be ...

Theoretical string theory in theoretical physics predicts the existence of parallel worlds (mirror s ...
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Math professor’s side mirror that eliminates ‘blind spot’ receives US ...

A side-by-side comparison of a standard flat driver’s side mirror with the mirror designed by ...
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Mathematicians use network theory to model champion Spanish soccer team’s ...

Passing networks for the Netherlands and Spain drawn before the ļ¬nal game, using the passing data an ...
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Making sports statistics more scientific

Whether it is the sprinter who finished first or the team that scored more points, it’s usuall ...
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Is there a typical rate of cultural evolution?

Are cultural evolution rates similar across human societies? The emerging field of Cliodynamics uses ...
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Factor Lattices

The objects pictured above are interesting structures – they are derived from the prime factor ...
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The case for ‘math-ish’ thinking

For everyone whose relationship with mathematics is distant or broken, Jo Boaler, a professor at Sta ...
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Researchers use simulations to tackle finite sphere-packing problem and ‘sausage ...

Have you ever wondered about the best way to pack a finite number of identical spheres into a shape- ...
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Coin tosses are not 50/50: Researchers find a slight bias

Want to get a slight edge during a coin toss? Check out which side is facing upwards before the coin ...
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