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As a Rigby High instructional coach, Levi Jaynes was appalled at the math scores. In 2018, only about a third of students who ...

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Susanna Heikkilä solved a problem in topology, or mathematics pertaining to the shape of surfaces. The fact that one of the ...

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Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, ...

Mathematician Dr. Steven Strogatz breaks down the history of the math concept and brings it full circle to recent science.

Chemists identify a single molecule that naturally tiles in nonrepeating patterns, which could help build materials with novel electronic properties.