A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with the precision of a professional magician. A new proof gets around that ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

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Math is often thought of as the school subject most divorced from student emotions. But as educator Liesl McConchie has found over 25 years of teaching and studying how the brain learns, a student’s ...

Vinegar has long been a Southern household staple, and not just in the kitchen. Its natural acidity makes it a powerful, affordable, and non-toxic cleaner that can cut through grime, dissolve mineral ...

Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is a Tabletop Role-playing Game, or TTRPG; a collaborative storytelling and board game experience where various dice rolls help to decide how the game and story progress.

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

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Across the country this fall, millions of college students are walking into math classrooms worried about their future — perhaps with good reason. For decades, mathematics — particularly college ...