Thus, the battle for the gold medal effectively became a math problem between the United States and Japan. That meant Team ...

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These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths.

These student-constructed problems foster collaboration, communication, and a sense of ownership over learning.

Urschel involved the crowd in his explanation of linear systems. He used an example problem of finding the ages of two ...

The committee also passed measures to explore future school district consolidations, restrict the use of cellphones in schools, and have civics taught in the classroom, among other bills.

Paul Erdős, known as the most prolific mathematician of the 20th century, proposed many unsolved problems throughout his life, known as 'Erdős problems.' GPT-5.2 Pro solved one of these problems, and ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...