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"Every time I see math, I just, I try and stay away from it," said one teenage girl, interviewed by ABC News in 1994. "You don't get it, and you feel like you're the only one that doesn't get it ...
10 of the Hardest Math Problems Ever Solved; The abc conjecture has some commonalities with the Pythagorean theorem and other diophantine problems, ...
In celebration of International Day of Math on Friday, March 14, ABC Life Literacy Canada is highlighting its free math literacy program, ABC Everyday Numbers, designed to help adult learners ...
A new K-12 math curriculum is being drafted to be voted on by the State Board of Education in November. Under the current path, students who don't start algebra in 8th grade generally don't reach ...
ABC News shifted on the fly, kept Elizabeth Vargas in the anchor's chair and matched her up with Gibson – asking him to do double-duty on "GMA" and "ABC World News" – as a stop-gap.
Kristin Quick loves to read with her kids, but said she and math are not exactly old friends. "I was not very good at math growing up-- very timid about it." In fact, equations and variables make ...
I’ve written a few times about math. It’s an important subject and especially lately it seems to make a big impact on our family’s life. Here are some thoughts I’ve had recently: Thought #1: This week ...