Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Randomly scramble the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 to form a seven-digit number (or a six-digit number if the leading digit is 0). Rank the following events in order ...

Compound interest grows by reinvesting earnings, creating larger interest over time. Increasing compounding frequency (e.g., monthly) can significantly accelerate investment growth. Compound earnings ...

Lia Block executed the perfect pit bike backflip on her first attempt at Travis Pastrana's Pastranaland. In a session alongside off-road champion Gray Leadbetter and members of the Sickos crew, the ...

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A record number of Senate Democrats, more than half the caucus, voted in favor of two resolutions to block U.S. military sales to Israel on Wednesday night. While the resolutions ultimately failed, ...

Panicked scenes spread across the Hawaiian Islands on Tuesday afternoon, as a massive earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, measuring at an 8.7 on the Richter scale, and sent potential tsunami ...

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An animated journey into the world of rational numbers! A fraction thief disrupts a number town, leading to a fun exploration of fractions, natural numbers, and mathematical concepts. Donald Trump's ...

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