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Ontario's standardized test scores for math continue to decline, according to the latest results released in August. The Ontario government plans to address math scores, in part, by requiring new ...

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At first glance, the problem seems ridiculously simple. And yet experts have been searching for a solution in vain for decades. According to mathematician Jeffrey Lagarias, number theorist Shizuo ...