Provided content. One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

Since the program’s launch, UCPS saw an average increase in state math test scores of 12 percentage points in fourth grade, according to an analysis from researchers at UNC Chapel Hill. Researchers ...

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Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

The calculator on your Apple devices can do more than add, subtract, multiply and divide. Here's how it can help you with all kinds of math problems. Cardiologist: 9 American foods you 'couldn't pay ...

About a year ago, an AI startup known as Recogni announced a patented number system for AI math, known as Pareto. Pareto is a logarithmic system, meaning that it stores numbers using their logarithmic ...