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International studies say Canada’s high-school students are tops—so why do so many struggle in university?
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View ArticleOlympic 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...
View ArticleDon’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...
View ArticleStatistical 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....
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleXs 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...
View ArticleTarnished 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...
View ArticleEmma 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleAdding 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...
View ArticleGirls 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...
View ArticleCanadian 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...
View ArticleHow 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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