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Exciting the brain could be key to boosting math learning, ...

Exciting a brain region using electrical noise stimulation can help improve mathematical learning in ...
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Strategic player challenges tip matches

Grand Slam tennis players in the US, Wimbledon and Australian Opens could improve their chances of w ...
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The seven essential components of explicit teaching

There is an evidence base that can guide teachers to implement effective mathematics lessons. To beg ...
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Some Notes on Taking Notes

I am often asked the question, “How do you do it?!” Now while I don’t think my not ...
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Decimals to Fractions

Some students get their first look at manipulating equations when they learn how to convert a repeat ...
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How The Maths Behind Honeycombs Can Help You Work A ...

Maths tells us the best way to cover a surface with copies of a shape – even when it comes to jigsaw ...
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Mechanistic model shows how much gossip is needed to foster ...

Gossip often has a negative connotation, but imagine you are part of a group deciding on a job candi ...
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Statistically significant

When the statistician for UC Irvine’s innovative Down syndrome program retired last year, its resear ...
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False Positives in Probability

There are plenty of probability problems that have counter-intuitive solutions. Problems like these, ...
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Danger of Death: Are We Programmed to Miscalculate Risk?

Our best efforts to gauge threats may be counter-productive. Assessing risk is something everyone mu ...
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Why prices are so high—8 ways retail pricing algorithms gouge ...

The just-released report of the inquiry into price gouging and unfair pricing conducted by Allan Fel ...
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Purposeful Planning

Planning is a key ingredient for effective teaching. But why is it so important? What is ‘good’ plan ...
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Two mathematicians explain how building bridges within the discipline helped ...

On June 23, 1993, the mathematician Andrew Wiles gave the last of three lectures detailing his solut ...
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Leading education publisher uses SpaceMath@NASA to help students master mathematics

This is a sample from a Spacemath@NASA problem. This diagram shows disks representing the planets di ...
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Paper offers a mathematical approach to modeling a random walker ...

Tiny particles like pollen grains move constantly, pushed and pulled by environmental forces. To stu ...
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Are pigeons as smart as primates? You can count on ...

We humans have long been interested in defining the abilities that set us apart from other species. ...
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