👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! In a scene that brings new meaning to “scattered, smothered and covered,” French fries and onions washed up on a beach in England. Volunteers helped clean up the mess after ...

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By Winifred KOTINFor many of us, mathematics was not a subject to love—it was a subject to pass so we could progress to the ...

The world today is marked by paradox. Never before has humanity possessed such extraordinary scientific knowledge, ...

During my visits to several schools in villages and nearby semi-urban areas, I encountered a troubling contradiction at the ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

For most people, solving a problem is the reward—the relief of being done, the achievement of having figured it out.

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Overview: Large Language Models predict text; they do not truly calculate or verify math.High scores on known Datasets do not ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...