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Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...

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