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Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

A consortium of five banks taking a novel approach to construction financing on a new Toronto condominium project highlights the difficulty developers are facing getting shovels in the ground. On June ...

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(via Quanta Magazine) For thousands of years, mathematicians avoided the concept of infinity. Then, in 1874, Georg Cantor published a four-page paper that changed mathematics forever. Hidden inside ...

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.

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A “deeply flawed comparison” shapes how the state allocates its higher education dollars. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times subscriber to contribute. Log in above ...

What kind of education best helps students learn math? In the province of Ontario, the most recent provincial standardized results (2024–25) show modest improvement in elementary mathematics ...