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You’ve checked for understanding—now you can use this framework to understand what students’ confusion is telling you, and how you can adjust course.

The president doesn’t use numbers and statistics like an adult; he uses numbers and statistics that he thinks sound good and make him feel better.

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...

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The second paper, "Fermion Chirality from Non-Bipartite Topology," applies this same lattice geometry to the quantum world. It proposes that the "handedness" (chirality) of subatomic particles is not ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...