New service Alleyoop tries to teach math in an engaging, personalized way.

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Can you calculate the average number of college applications sent by students using the online Common Application, if given the number of students who use the system and the total number of applications sent through it this year’

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Radio 5 live Breakfast challenged the man dubbed the and #39;human calculator and #39; by US host Regis Philbin with a maths puzzle.

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Remedial math is a barrier for student advancement, experts say, so it and #39;s wise to consider alternatives.

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New advice suggests children should study maths until they leave school. Don and #39;t be scared though, numbers are wonderful, fascinating things Britain is about to fall in love with maths. Well, that and #39;s the dream. Yesterday one of the government and #39;s top advisers on further education said that maths should be compulsory for all students until 18 or 19 – no matter what else they are studying. Professor …

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Can you estimate the number of weight-loss surgeries done on people under 21 years of age if given the total number of surgeries and a percentage range of the patients who are under 21′

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Can you calculate the amount spent to train each employee, if given the total cost of the training program and the number of people who were trained’

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Professor Steve Sparks argues that all students who continue with further education after 16 should also have to take a new maths qualification alongside their other subjects.

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The researchers are right: girls are held back by preconceptions about maths being boring, not a and #39;stereotype threat and #39; lack of belief Women and #39;s underachievement in maths may not be due to their poor self-image in the subject, a new report suggests. Researcher Dr Gijsbert Stoet at the University of Leeds says that the so-called and #34;stereotype threat and #34; theory – which holds that women perform worse than …

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Before GPS, milestones gave riders and drivers of horses an idea of where they were. Today, most of the 200-pound markers have vanished.

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The third-grade maths problems led to an investigation in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and sparked calls for the teachers responsible to be fired.

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With more children into science and maths, parents are increasingly feeling left behind, suggests a survey.

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Percentage of students taking Algebra II has nearly doubled since 1982.

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Researchers have discovered that the seemingly erratic behavior of the and #34;Rostov Ripper, and #34; a prolific serial killer active in the 1980s, conformed to the same mathematical pattern obeyed by earthquakes, avalanches, stock market crashes and many other sporadic events. The finding suggests an explanation for why serial killers kill.

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Researchers at UCLA and #39;mapped and #39; a prolific Russian killer and #39;s pattern of murder, and found it adhered to a formula – driven, they theorise, by brain cells and #39;firing and #39;. It could allow police to be ready when killers strike.

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A customer could be hit with a £150 bill for a large unauthorised overdraft without a clear explanation as to why, Which’ said.

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A teacher made his German neighbour’s life hell by blaring out British war tunes after a row, a court heard yesterday.

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Special needs calculators from Merrill Lynch and others can help families start planning for complex financial situations.

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Can you estimate the total value of worldwide caviar production if given the amount sold and how much consumers pay for it’

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INVERCLYDE is the first council in Scotland to be awarded funding from bluechip firm Texas Instruments to enhance the teaching of maths and science in schools.

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INVERCLYDE is the first council in Scotland to be awarded funding from bluechip firm Texas Instruments to enhance the teaching of maths and science in schools.

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Third grade math is not normally the course where students are taught about beating slaves and dehumanizing labor, but two teachers at Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Atlanta thought it was a perfectly normal integration.

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INVERCLYDE has become the first council in Scotland to be awarded funding from Texas Instruments to enhance the teaching of maths and science in schools.

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NORCROSS, Ga. – Angry parents called for an apology after a Georgia elementary school set a math assignment that used questions about slavery and beatings, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

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Can you calculate the behind-the-wheel cell phone use in 2009 if you know the 2010 rate and the percentage increase in use between 2009 and 2010′

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A new ‘English Baccalaureate’ – made up English, maths, a science, history or geography and a foreign or ancient language – has been introduced to encourage pupils to study subjects value most by employers and universities.

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The Math for America program, which attracts and trains math teachers, is shifting its focus away from new recruits to teachers who are already in the classroom, and more than doubling its presence in New York City in the next several years.

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The Fondation Cartier has taken on topics that go beyond what is considered museum-worthy. Its current exhibition tackles an equally unlikely subject for an art museum: math. “Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere” is on view through March 18.

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It’s not just humans and other primates than can master simple math; the most ordinary of birds can too

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Why are four-leafed clovers so exceedingly rare’ Fibonacci numbers as seen in plants This morning’s science/maths video takes a look at something that has always fascinated me and inspires some of my nature photography: capturing the Fibonacci series in plants. The Fibonacci series was named for the 13th century Italian mathematician, Leonardo Pisano, whose popular nickname was Fibonacci. As a …

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Can you calculate the revenue Microsoft can expect one year after introducing a monthly $5 subscription fee if half of its current 35 million users agree to sign up for subscriptions’

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About 150 schools languishing beneath ‘floor standard’ for five years, though percentage of children meeting standards is up More than 1,300 primary schools are failing to reach official targets for teaching the basics of English and maths, according to figures published on Thursday. League tables show that 1,310 primary schools in England fall below the expected standards, while about 150 …

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AN investigation into how a York primary school conducted its pupil tests has left pupils without any maths SATS results.

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ISLAND 11 year olds are officially the worst in the country for English and maths results. Revised results of Key Stage 2 tests, taken in May, were published yesterday (Thursday), confirming only 62 per cent of Island 11 year olds achieved level four or above in English and maths.

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Primary schools in Norfolk have been urged to do better after the government’s latest league tables revealed the county was among the seven worst in the country when it comes to performing in English and maths.

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The tools can help you gauge college costs if you know how to use them.

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THOUSANDS of schoolchildren throughout Suffolk will have the opportunity to improve their maths, thanks to an innovative project organised by The Evening Star and Suffolk County Council.

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Can you determine how many “typical” oak trees would be needed to match this year’s acorn production of the 1,000 oak trees in Central Park, given typical and this year’s acorn yields’

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Many explanations for the gender gap in math skills don’t hold up, suggests new research on math skills and gender in 86 countries.

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Can you calculate the percentage of difference in market share between Beats and iPod headphones, if given Beats’ sales, the total revenue of the headphones market, the costs of both brands of headphones and the number of iPod headphones sold’

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Colleges and universities must have these tools on their sites, but they’re not always easy to locate.

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FOUR talented pupils at a primary school in Harpenden proved to be top number-crunchers when they scooped a maths award.

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Buried in the reading and math results released in the report of the National Assessment of Educational Progress was a glimmer of good news for New York City: Poor students did less poorly in math and reading than they did in 2003, and the achievement gap for blacks also appeared to shrink slightly in the city.

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Given the total number of students served by a program, the percentage who are female, and the percentage who go on to four-year colleges, can you find the number of girls served by the program who go on to four-year colleges’

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Can you calculate the number of school lunches served each year if given the per-lunch increase in cost and the total cost increase over five years’

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Sophie Raworth tries to make sense of the various ‘deals’ on offer in the fruit and veg aisles of her local supermarkets.

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MATHS plus creative activities equalled fun learning for children at a village school.

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National curriculum review to look at use of calculators in primary schools amid concerns students are too reliant on them Calculators may be restricted in primary schools until children have mastered basic arithmetic including knowing times tables by heart, a minister has said. The use of calculators will be looked at as part of a national curriculum review, after the schools minister, Nick …

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A new calculator can help you see if you will be affected by the alternative minimum tax.

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The latest Skills for Life survey questioned more than 7,000 16-65-year-olds in England to examine literacy and numeracy levels.

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