When Kenya released its senior school placement results in December 2025, the reaction was swift and visceral. Parents crowded school offices. WhatsApp groups are filled with screenshots of placement ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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Discover how Markov chains predict real systems, from Ulam and von Neumann’s Monte Carlo to PageRank, so you can grasp ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

One Polk Central Elementary student summed up Polk County Schools’ first math festival with a revelation: they didn’t know math could be fun. The math festival, held November 25 at Polk Central ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...