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 ...

Abstract: The natural encoding for many search and optimization problems is the permutation, such as the traveling salesperson, vehicle routing, scheduling, assignment and mapping problems, among ...

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 ...

When he's not playing golf or sending the stock market on a rollercoaster journey, Donald Trump seems to consider himself to be quite the wordsmith. As well as declaring his love for the word "tariff" ...

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 ...

Practical word problems are often considered one of the most complex parts of elementary school mathematics. They require students to understand the context of a math problem, identify what the ...

Abstract: This study addresses the solution of jobshop scheduling problems using differential evolution (DE). The issue of representing permutations through real numbers constitutes the key issue for ...

Emily Sharp and Kunal Nabar collaborate on a puzzle that’s greater than the sum of its parts. By Caitlin Lovinger Jump to: Tricky Clues | Today’s Theme SUNDAY PUZZLE — Will Shortz, in his print ...

How many times does the letter “r” appear in the word “strawberry”? According to formidable AI products like GPT-4o and Claude, the answer is twice. Large language models (LLMs) can write essays and ...