After years of assigning the kind of homework she had done as a student and observing students’ disengagement with it, a teacher overhauled how she assigns math practice.

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Bowdoin’s R. Wells Johnson Professor of Mathematics Mary Lou Zeeman is visiting Hawai’i to take part in a number of events ...

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Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

But, both of these would require large structural changes for a course that teaches hundreds of students a year — something that can’t really happen in the near term. What could happen now, though, is ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Protein is a hot topic in the nutrition world, especially with the release of the 2026-2030 U.S. Dietary Guidelines. As a dietitian, I’m often asked how much protein people need daily. The answer ...

Visualize free body diagrams using vector math in Python to better understand forces and motion. This video shows how vectors represent forces, how they combine mathematically, and how Python helps ...

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Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...