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Russia's war in Ukraine threatens students daily and forces teachers to improvise

Svitlana Popova’s students didn’t realize she was leading their online math class while outside the charred remains of her home in Ukraine until they saw a news video about it on social media.

The Conversation

Try our simple maths quiz after Rishi Sunak's 18 announcement

The Prime Minister has faced criticism from academics

Leeds Live

The pandemic intensified the childcare crisis

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Teacher knocked unconscious while protecting student in attack outside Boston school, police say

BOSTON — A group Mattapan students brutally jumped another student and the teacher walking her home outside the Young Achievers Science and Math Pilot School after school Wednesday, according to details in a Boston Police report.

Boston Herald

Let’s ease property tax burden by fixing tax-increment financing

Ultimately, property taxes are a math problem we must solve if we want the fabric of our neighborhoods to remain intact. TIF reform is a good place to start finding solutions.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tom Krasovic: Peter Seidler is trying to finish the job that Ray Kroc began

Baseball scouts tell me their bosses can't figure out Peter Seidler's math. The riddle: how the Padres can afford such large player payrolls, without losing big money.

Tribune News Service

The history and mystery of Tangram, the children's puzzle game that harbours a mathematical paradox or two

Have you played the puzzle game Tangram?

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LA students' grades are rising, but test scores are falling. Why the big disconnect?

LOS ANGELES — Claudia Chacon said her two children, who attend Fairfax High School, bring home good grades in math and English. But when she reviews their individual scores on California's statewide tests, she wonders what they are learning. The standardized exams have shown her boys do not meet grade-level…

Los Angeles Times

Esports seen as pathway to boost diversity in STEM careers

A growing effort to channel students' enthusiasm for esports toward preparing them for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math could address the lack of racial diversity in STEM careers

The Independent UK

2 cities pursued more school for kids. Only 1 pulled it off.

Facing massive pandemic learning loss, the superintendent in Richmond, Virginia, tried to remake one of the most untouchable aspects of school – the academic calendar

The Independent UK

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #41

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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Commentary: Becoming a father changes the brain. In a good way, actually

For better and for worse, the link between biological parents and their children is well known, from a child inheriting a mother’s wit and skill at math to inheriting a father’s nose and short temper. It turns out children also cause a change in a father’s brain, according to new…

Chicago Tribune

The 14 best TV shows of 2022

Well, friends, we have survived to (almost) the end of another year of television. TV is great, and also often terrible. But given how much of it there is, simple math tells us that there's still more worth watching than anyone not actually able to insert extra hours into the…

Los Angeles Times

ITV pundit Eni Aluko makes fun of maths mistake after Ian Wright leaps to her defence

Eni Aluko joked about her on-air mathematical error on ITV after she made a blunder whilst discussing Richarlison's stats, having been heavily defended by some of her colleagues

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Max Homa, as only he can, compares the LIV Golf rumors to finding out about a high school fight in math class

Homa counted himself among the “fortunate,” who didn’t get caught in the rumor mill.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois Math and Science Academy opens out-of-state, tuition-based enrollment

IMSA, which enrolls 650 Illinois students, said it would accept “a small group” of out-of-state students for the 2023-24 school year.

Inverse

Firefly swarms may have finally solved a 20-year-old scientific mystery

In the quiet woods, the synchronized flashes of fireflies and their dissonant counterparts may have illuminated a trove of new chimeras for mathematicians and physicists to chase.

Los Angeles Times

Cal State University poised to drop plan for tougher math admissions requirement

LOS ANGELES — California State University trustees are poised to abandon a proposal to require a fourth year of math-related coursework for admission, ending a plan introduced six years ago that touched off fierce criticism among many who said it would create barriers for students trying to enter the system.

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Teaching math through World Cup soccer

FIFA rules give you a good opportunity to explore combinatorics and logic puzzles.

Salon

Math disparities start in kindergarten

Socioeconomic status greatly affects math scores, and this disparity starts in the first years of schooling

Daily Record

Cher says 40-year age gap relationship is 'strange' but 'love doesn't know math'

The Believe singer, 76, discussed her new romance with boyfriend Alexander Edwards, 36, and told fans "love doesn't know math".

Daily Mirror

Cher admits her 40-year age gap relationship is 'strange' but 'love doesn't know math'

Believe songstress Cher has admitted her 40-year age gap relationship with Alexander Edwards is 'strange on paper' but says 'love doesn't know math'

Salon

Why some students are "bad" at math

With math scores on the decline, a professor explains that math isn't a natural skill, but a learned one

The Conversation

Math teachers in virtual classes tend to view girls and Black students as less capable

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

Tribune News Service

What went wrong? Kansas Republicans point fingers after Schmidt’s loss to Gov. Kelly

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt on Oct. 24 received what could have been a useful development in the extremely close contest for governor: National assessment scores measuring math and reading had fallen among Kansas students.

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