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San Francisco to vote on 8th-grade math ballot measure

Welcome to the Wednesday, February 14, Brew.

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“Take Out All The Quarters”: People Share 40 Unscrupulous Practices They Live By

Someone asked “What's something sneaky you do that you feel no guilt for?” and netizens shared their best, potentially unethical strategies. The post “Take Out All The Quarters”: People Share 40 Unscrupulous Practices They Live By first appeared on Bored Panda.

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K-12 students learned a lot last year, but they're still missing too much school

Families will play an essential role in getting students back on track, researchers say. But it's going to take a "culture" shift around the importance of being in school.

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San Francisco ballot measure to urge school district to offer algebra to 8th graders will be on March ballot

Voters in San Francisco, California, will decide on seven ballot measures on March 5, 2024, including Proposition G, which issues a policy declaration regarding the school district’s mathematics curriculum.

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"Times Less Than"

A Facebook comment reminded me again of this debate — some people argue that "A times less than B" is "mathematically incorrect," "simply wrong," and so on. The theory is that "times" refers to multiplication, so "5 times less than B" to mean "B/5" is mistaken, though "5 times more…

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Test Scores Are Rebounding After Pandemic School Closures, but Some Students Will Never Catch Up

A new study sparks hope that the historic declines in students' reading and math performance following the pandemic may not be permanent.

Reason

When will Caitlin Clark break the Division I women’s basketball scoring record? We did the math.

It's likely that Clark will pass Kelsey Plum during Iowa's matchup with Michigan.

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Teachers Love 4-Day School Weeks. Do They Work?

Four-day school weeks are increasingly being offered as a way to recruit teachers, but the research is mixed on the advantages and disadvantages of the schedule. Now some states are reconsidering it.

Tech&Learning

Biden's Natural Gas Export 'Pause' Is Based on Bad Math

The White House seems to have decided that giving a political win to radical environmentalists is more important than actually reducing emissions.

Reason

Drew Barrymore Did the Math for How Taylor Swift Can Make It to the Super Bowl From Her Tokyo Concert—2 Months Before the Chiefs' Key Win

DREW!!!

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FSA revamp causing confusion and FSA revamp causing confusion and Top News.8B aid loss.8B aid loss

Learn about the complications and delays caused by a math error in the revamped federal student aid application, potentially costing students FSA revamp causing confusion and Top News.8B aid loss.8 billion ...

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Up First briefing: Trump and Biden win New Hampshire primaries; a FAFSA fix is coming

Nikki Haley says she'll stay in the race, though the country seems headed toward a Trump-Biden rematch. The U.S. Education Department tells NPR it will fix a math error in its student aid application.

WEKU

Forget ‘Girl Math’: Handle Your Money Like a Woman

Social media phenomenon builds on stereotype that women are bad at math and can’t manage their money. Studies show that just isn’t true.

Kiplinger

Lonestar's spin on deck-building helps it stand out from the pack

There's already plenty of tactical nuance in this early access roguelike.

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How to start taking notes with Goodnotes 6 on your iPad

How to start taking notes with Goodnotes 6 on your iPad, from AI handwriting features to handy math tools.

iMore

This iPhone app demystifies complicated maths problems

Scan any maths problem with Photomath for step-by-step explanations and solutions you can actually learn from.

The Conversation

I wrote a play for children about integrating the arts into STEM fields − here's what I learned about encouraging creative, interdisciplinary thinking

Often, science and art are described as starkly different things. That narrative can start early on, with kids encouraged to pursue a STEM – short for science, technology, engineering and math – education that may or may not include an arts education.

Tom’s Guide

OpenAI's GPT Store has millions of custom chatbots — here are 5 of the best so far

OpenAI is highlighting a wide range of bots in its new GPT store. These are a few of the best and most original I’ve seen so far.

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What comes after the Year of the Girl?

In 2023, celebrations of girlhood where everywhere. What does that mean for 2024 and beyond?

The Hindu

Temple premises not big enough to invite all donors, says Pejawar seer

Pejawar Math seer responds to Congress leaders' comments on not being invited to Ram Mandir event; advises them not to make such comments.

The Hindu

A unique way to tell time in 2024

Kumaresh’s creation, for instance, which focuses on the number 2, offers an intellectual playground filled with travel trivia and mind-bending math puzzles.

Chicago Sun-Times

Games, (fake) wine, sleep: Chicago grade-schoolers share their New Year’s Eve plans

Youngsters at Brentano Math and Science Academy are sure they’ll be awake at midnight to ring in the new year.

WEKU

Top global TikToks of 2023: Mr. Bean of math, makeup demo, capybaras!

Reason

2023 Brought More Evidence That Pandemic School Closures Damaged Students

Post-COVID educational declines are here to stay.

The Conversation

How counting by 10 helps children learn about the meaning of numbers

When children start school, they learn how to recite their numbers (“one, two, three…”) and how to write them (1, 2, 3…). Learning about what those numbers mean is even more challenging, and this becomes trickier yet when numbers have more than one digit — such as 42 and 608.

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