When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha was little when ...

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This post originally appeared in a slightly different form on the BookMarks blog. Andrew Hacker is the author of The Math Myth and Other STEM Delusions, published this month by The New Press. Hacker, ...

Your intuitive thinking about a problem is productive and usefully structured, wasting little time on being aimlessly puzzled. For example, when answering a question about a high-dimensional space ...

Here’s a challenge for the mathematically inclined among you. Solve the following differential equation for y: You have 30 seconds. Quick! No dallying. The answer, of course, is: If you were unable to ...