AI program plays the long game to solve decades-old math problems
A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the ...
Why more WA students are learning math on laptops
The latest results from the biannual National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card, show ...
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AI Tackles Decades-Old Math Puzzles with Long Game
A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the years. Back in 1996, an IBM ...
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Man charged in decades-old beating death of a New York woman after a blurry photo of a fingerprint helps lead to a suspect
Known as the neighborhood grandma, 88-year-old Edna Schubert often spent her days helping children with their math homework ...
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The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner
A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It highlights how even the simplest optimization ...
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Other Papers Say: Change needed for WA schools
But last week, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (informally known as the Nation’s Report Card) ripped away any gauzy illusions: Reading scores for fourth-graders here have fallen ...
I started university for the first time at 55 with Gen Z classmates
After a lifetime of focusing on others and believing she wasn’t quite smart enough, 56-year-old Colleen Sharpe is finally ...
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One state tried algebra for all eighth graders. It hasn't gone well
The Hechinger Report covers the reasons behind the initiative to have students take algebra in eighth grade, as well as its ...
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In Seattle, a Convergence of 5,444 Mathematical Minds
Participants at this year’s Joint Mathematics Meetings explored everything ... an honorable mention for a laser-cut engraving on paper titled “Disintegrating (State of Mind).” ...
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Here’s How to Make Flexagons—Folded Strips of Paper with Strange and Surprising Properties
Mathematics owes a lot to games ... circumstance that British and American notebook paper are not the same size. Arthur H. Stone, a 23-year-old English graduate student who came to Princeton ...