Testing random outcomes teaches principles that apply wherever fairness matters. Random outcomes shape more of our world than ...

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Finding π using random numbers and probability. This short demonstrates a Monte Carlo approach, showing how randomness and statistics can converge to an accurate estimate of pi through repeated trials ...

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces ...

Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance.

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A Westdale Middle School math teacher was arrested Tuesday morning after a drug-sniffing dog alerted police to cocaine in a bag on her desk. Virginia Somers, 47, was booked into the parish prison on a ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Abstract: Finite time-vertex graph signals (FTVGS) provide an efficient representation for capturing spatio-temporal correlations across multiple data sources on irregular structures. Although ...