UCSD has seen a dramatic increase in freshmen needing remedial math, rising from 1 in 100 to 1 in 8, attributed to pandemic disruptions, poor teaching methods, and a focus on DEI over academic ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

Four years ago, I was given a fantastic opportunity to be a math coach for a primary years program. But when I started, there was no framework to work within, no script to follow. I was starting from ...

Step inside Great Hearts Harveston on any given morning, and you’ll find classrooms humming with focus and energy. In one room, second graders practice phonograms, carefully forming letters while ...

1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, China. 2 Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of ...

New research details an intriguing new way to solve "unsolvable" algebra problems that go beyond the fourth degree – something that has generally been deemed impossible using traditional methods for ...

Introduction: Over the years, many approaches have been proposed to build ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs), graphs used to represent the genetic relationship between individuals. Among these ...

A critical advancement in recent times has been exploring reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to improve LLMs beyond traditional supervised fine-tuning methods. RL allows models to learn optimal ...

A comprehensive toolkit and benchmark for tabular data learning, featuring 30 deep methods, more than 10 classical methods, and 300 diverse tabular datasets.

New mathematical tools revealing how quickly cell proteins break down are poised to uncover deeper insights into how we age, according to a recently published paper. New mathematical tools revealing ...