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Starting next year, more STEM majors in community colleges will be enrolled directly into calculus, skipping prerequisites, ...

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The answer to two down in the Nov. 11 New York Times Mini Crossword is “XAXIS.” A typical two-dimensional graph has two axes: the x-axis (horizontal) and the y-axis (vertical). The x-axis runs ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

The experiment also meant that average, grade-level students were learning alongside peers who lacked foundational math skills. It was risky. Students sometimes end up with lower math scores when they ...

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The most common brand of processor in laptops you can buy in the UK is Intel. However, Intel's myriad of marketing names for its various processors can make comparisons extremely tricky. In this guide ...

Yet a new analysis by two mathematicians in Australia finds that even a troop might not have the time to do so within the supposed timeframe of the universe. To find out, the duo created a model that ...

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