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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We construct a counterexample to the "hot spots" conjecture; there exists a bounded connected planar domain (with two holes) such that the ...

By using something called a quantum grid, scientists have found a clever way to simultaneously measure momentum and position ...

Baltimore — Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying ...

Combining physical and virtual manipulatives gives students the ability to concretely model things in the real world.

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Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...