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Summer can be brutal for the Ocean County homeless who live in camps in the woods and are frequently ordered by local police to move elsewhere.

Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

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A bill moving through the California Legislature would test students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an effort ...

After your delicious drink or meal, you’re likely going to get two receipts of your bill from your server: a merchant and a ...

Over three decades of money ups and downs taught me these rules I never break. Ignore them and the math gets ugly fast.

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Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

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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.

In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...