A nontraditional teaching strategy is also helping teens at the southern Utah school connect with their fellow classmates.

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A university report found a sharp rise in first-year students lacking high school math proficiency. At UCSD, where more than ...

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They had to throw away most of what it produced but there was gold among the garbage. Google DeepMind has used a large language model to crack a famous unsolved problem in pure mathematics. In a paper ...

Do you miss those good ol' college days? Well, if you do, you won't after trying to tackle this math problem called the Working Together Riddle. According economics and math pro Presh Talwalkar of the ...