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The good news is that the number of American teens who excel in math is increasing. The bad news is that the growing ecosystem of high school math enthusiasts lacks students of color. The largely ...
However, you never know when you’ll need to do quick math, and the Japanese multiplication ... for easier understanding, you want to color-code your lines, this is where your multi-colored ...
The conundrum that stirred up so much trouble was: What is the minimum number of colors needed to color a ... This left the math world in a rather embarrassing position. A problem so seemingly ...
In the 1970s, a remarkable thing was done; a computer was used to solve a math problem. This ... Find out about the Four-Color Theorem, and why it needed to be turned over to the machines ...
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Beyond the question of tracking, there are debates about whether PEMDAS, the acronym many of us learned about the order of operations in a math problem, is actually the right way to do things ...