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Artsy doesn’t have to be fartsy

Why I don't hate my humanities class after all

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Ready or not?

International studies say Canada’s high-school students are tops—so why do so many struggle in university?

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Are you getting your money’s worth?

Canadians concerned about the value of an education, finds poll

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What You Know About Math?

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Prof says teachers need better math

Petition asks gov. for higher standards

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Students are fleeing STEM degrees

And why they may want to reconsider

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Where do Canada’s math geniuses go?

Two Canadian schools dominate competition

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Waldorf closes, the Mad Minute & Carleton discrimination

What students are talking about today (January 11th)

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Olympic aftermath, The man with the ‘golden arm’ and did Tea Partiers scald...

Olympic aftermath Olympic ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir ended their storybook season in Turin by winning their first World Championship last week. Virtue, 20, and Moir, 22, whose...

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Don’t mind me; I’m on a math bender

As the paid-up holder of a Mainstream Media club card, can I warn the sportswriters away from making too much of the statistical fluke of all eight first-round NHL playoff series starting out tied...

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Statistical sour grapes

When the U of T Cities Centre announced a couple weeks ago that middle-class neighbourhoods are disappearing in Toronto, the Globe and Mail latched onto the study and squeezed it for all it was worth....

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How many journalists can you fit into one square metre?

Don’t forget to read the article that inspired the experiment about inflated attendance numbers at Pride parade in Toronto The post How many journalists can you fit into one square metre? appeared...

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Xs of evil: America’s algebra crisis

The New York Times ran a deeply contrarian editorial Saturday about math education in the United States. In it, political scientist Andrew Hacker argues that the youth of America is being crucified on...

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Tarnished Silver: Assessing the new king of stats

The whole world is suddenly talking about election pundit Nate Silver, and as a longtime heckler of Silver I find myself at a bit of a loss. These days, Silver is saying all the right things about...

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Emma Teitel: ‘I am a 23-year-old woman who can’t do math’

Call me a ‘word person’: Old-time, hard-core math drills and testing are still revered Tori Spelling’s resolution for 2013 is to get back into her skinny jeans. Wyclef Jean’s is to never again remain...

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New world’s largest prime number discovered, all 17-million digits of it

Missouri professor Dr. Curtis Cooper has discovered a new world’s largest prime number and it’s 17-million digits long. The number is 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, less one, reads a press...

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Adding up the ways we’re falling behind in education

Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star / GetStock Learning is tricky. On Tuesday the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a global report on adult skills based on...

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Girls good at math half as likely to study science or math at university

Young Canadian women who are good at math in high school are half as likely as young men who excel in the subject to choose math-heavy STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and...

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Canadian students have more math class, lower test scores

Andrew Francis Wallce/Toronto Star/Getstock When the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released its international student achievement rankings in December showing Canada had...

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How do you make math fascinating?

HOW NOT TO BE WRONG: THE POWER OF MATHEMATICAL THINKING By Jordan Ellenberg There’s little objectively sexy about math. With its flummoxing sine curves and its formulae written as if in ancient...

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