UC San Diego report finds alarming drop in freshmen math skills, with one in eight below middle school level

Shocking UC San Diego study reveals one in eight college freshmen lack basic math skills, with remedial course enrollment ...
University of Nevada, Reno

Ask the Professor: Why do we use a sideways 8 to represent infinity?

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.
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A 5-Stage Strategy Students Can Use to Tackle Word Problems

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

How fishes of the deep sea have evolved into different shapes

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at ...

Robust 'Huber mean' for geometric data protects against noise and outliers

In an era driven by complex data, scientists are increasingly encountering information that doesn't lie neatly on flat, ...