Liverpool head to Inter Milan on Tuesday evening for an important Champions League tie, though it’ll be matters off the pitch – and the absence of Mo Salah – that will dominate the headlines. The Reds ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

Forecasting the weather is by nature an imprecise science, and that’s why we use probability when determining the likelihood of rain, snow, or otherwise. “Probability of Precipitation” is what that ...

We all love a good magic trick. And illusions have always drawn us in. The shimmer of a desert mirage, the flicker of shadows in Plato’s cave, or even my father's rather simple sleight of hand that ...

The world's largest conditional cash transfer programme, the Bolsa Família Programme (BFP), is associated with a substantial reduction in AIDS cases and deaths, especially among brown and black women ...

A recent Delaware Chancery Court opinion offers a significant example of how courts may apply complex probability analysis to determine the amount of damages in an earnout dispute. The case arose from ...

Do you sense something problematic about the word “problematic”? The way it’s used has changed a great deal in recent years, so much that it can now seem a little shifty. The journey that brought us ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

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