Testing random outcomes teaches principles that apply wherever fairness matters. Random outcomes shape more of our world than ...

Math teacher Emma Chiappetta uses a three-round exercise to help students not only recognize their errors, but also generate ...

Finding π using random numbers and probability. This short demonstrates a Monte Carlo approach, showing how randomness and statistics can converge to an accurate estimate of pi through repeated trials ...

Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance.

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Living in New York City, I’m often asked if I go down to Times Square for the festivities on New Year’s Eve. That’s a hard no; I can’t think of a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

It’s worth doing what you’re doing now—refusing sex and sleeping in separate rooms—while you sort out your feelings. Sometimes, it’s unfair to judge people based on their worst behavior; at other ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

After distributing test kits to 60 randomly selected households in mid-June as part of a project aiming to replace all lead water lines, Blue Island officials say the results found no immediate ...

Abstract: Finite time-vertex graph signals (FTVGS) provide an efficient representation for capturing spatio-temporal correlations across multiple data sources on irregular structures. Although ...

If you’ve been to Random Sample to see an art exhibition, or watch a live band, or even participate in a book club, you know just where to find its original home. It’s a white cinderblock building ...

New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity. The end of this story includes samples of AI-generated music. Artificial ...