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UK prime minister seeks to reverse 'anti-math' culture

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he wants to reverse an anti-math mindset and require the subject for students until they are 18

The Independent UK

Matthew McConaughey says Woody Harrelson could be his half-brother

Actor says he and his True Detective co-star ‘did some math’ after his mother revealed she knew Harrelson’s father

The Guardian - AU

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #56

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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Google Bard gets transparent with its new 'experimental updates' page

Google created a new "experimental updates" page for Bard consisting of details related to its development.

Android Central

‘Income inequality’, ‘exclusive club’ and all the math on a strange English dailies campaign

Outnumbered in readership by the vernacular press, a section of the English print media has come up with a rather strange ad that seems to assert the stereotype of the English-speaking elite.

Newslaundry

Google Bard is getting better at math, and more updates should be on the way

Google's Bard AI is getting better at math, and its new update page suggests we'll see it get a lot more updates in the future.

TechRadar

Two CPS principals removed due to ‘investigation’

The principals at Hyde Park Academy and Lindblom Math and Science Academy were removed beginning Monday.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Spotify may start using Sliding Doors-style 'what if?' AI to suggest your new music

Burden of choice, be gone! Spotify's counterfactual math AI can delve into the realms of ‘what if this never happened – what then?’ to suggest your next favorite album…

TechRadar

Sal Khan explains why GPT-4 is ready to be a tutor

It can explain why you got things wrong, even if it can't explain its own inner workings.

Axios

ChatGPT's greatest achievement might just be its ability to trick us into thinking that it's honest

In American writer Mark Twain’s autobiography, he quotes — or perhaps misquotes — former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as saying: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

The Conversation

Alan Turing's famous mathematical model was right all along, chia seed experiment reveals

For the first time, scientists using chia seed experiments have confirmed that Alan Turing's mathematical model can explain patterns seen in nature.

LiveScience

Yvette Young names the 10(+) guitarists who shaped her sound

Covet’s two-hand tapping math-rock mastermind reveals why she only just started listening to Van Halen, what it’s like to jam with Steve Vai and the guitar discovery that changed her life

Guitar World

Puerto Rico’s remaining schoolkids struggle in the aftermath of hurricanes and earthquakes

Beset by natural disasters, a pandemic and a steep drop in student population, the island’s schools look to the federal government for help

The Guardian - US

Bard gets a little smarter as Google adds some PaLM upgrades

Google has started to bring in new improvements to its AI chatbot Bard via PaLM.

Android Central

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The Morally Funky Math of Homeowner Handouts

The rich are getting richer under the Inflation Reduction Act.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh school pupils get 'confidence boost' ahead of exams with 'Saturday School'

Dozens of pupils at Gracemount High School are getting a boost of confidence with help from extra maths and biology tuition on Saturdays in the run up to their exams

LiveScience

Newly discovered 'einstein' tile is a 13-sided shape that solves a decades-old math problem

A new 13-sided shape is the first example of an elusive "einstein" — a single shape that can be tiled infinitely without repeating a pattern.

The Conversation

Declines in math readiness underscore the urgency of math awareness

When President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Math Awareness Week in April 1986, one of the problems he cited was that too few students were devoted to the study of math.

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High school students may have just discovered an 'impossible' proof to the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem

Two high school seniors have presented their proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry — which mathematicians thought to be impossible — at an American Mathematical Society meeting.

LiveScience

Mathematicians make rare breakthrough on notoriously tricky 'Ramsey number' problem

The bounds on Ramsey numbers, which describe relationships between nodes in a network, have been narrowed.

Birmingham Post

Rolls-Royce launches Bristol jobs scheme for engineers returning to work

The aerospace giant’s defence division will offer a new Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) ‘returnship’ scheme at its site in Filton, South Gloucestershire

USA Today Sports Media Group

The A’s had the Giants so confused when they ran off the field after the second out of an inning

Math is hard.

The Conversation

40 years ago 'A Nation at Risk' warned of a 'rising tide of mediocrity' in US schools – has anything changed?

The National Commission on Excellence in Education’s release of a report titled “A Nation at Risk” in 1983 was a pivotal point in the history of American education. The report used dire language, lamenting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of…

TechRadar

Is Duolingo building a new music-learning app? We interpret the signs

Expanding beyond languages and math, Duolingo is looking to build a music curriculum for its next educational venture.

Tribune News Service

Why Seattle schools are hinging student success on Black male achievement

SEATTLE — During a math lesson on dividing decimals at Hawthorne Elementary School, 11-year-old Imran Ali said the material didn't click for him until his fifth grade teacher taught it using felt blocks. It was easier, he said, to count out real-life objects instead of grappling with abstract numbers in…

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