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Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra says math scores among the province's Grade 3, 6 and 9 students are showing "inadequate" signs of improvement. But in Ottawa, the latest test results for the ...

Closing costs: Homebuyers and sellers both incur various types of closing costs, which are the fees and expenses associated with finalizing a real estate transaction. For buyers, these typically ...

A back-to-basics brain teaser is dividing the internet. BholanathDutta shared the sum 100 + 100 × 4 = ? on X, formerly Twitter, sparking debate among users. At first glance, many people speed to the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture. One morning last November, the ...

Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. The “Mozart of Math,” as he is sometimes called, is widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician. He has ...