While math word problems are widely used in classrooms at all grade levels to help put numbers, operations, and equations into context and connect math to the real world, they also increase the ...

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Extropic, a startup betting on probabilistic computing, has built its first working chip and handed it to early testers. The company says its approach—thermodynamic sampling units (TSUs) that model ...

Forecasting the weather is by nature an imprecise science, and that’s why we use probability when determining the likelihood of rain, snow, or otherwise. “Probability of Precipitation” is what that ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

Is your Microsoft Word document refusing to print correctly? Are you seeing missing text, blank pages, or a distorted mess in Print Preview? This frustrating problem can derail your productivity and ...

Catastrophizing is fixating on the worst possible outcome of a situation, even if unlikely. The author shares personal experiences with catastrophizing, particularly regarding a recent health ...

Do you sense something problematic about the word “problematic”? The way it’s used has changed a great deal in recent years, so much that it can now seem a little shifty. The journey that brought us ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...