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Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer.” The goal is to shift his elementary ...

Members of the Princeton High School Math Team have enjoyed competing in math tournaments and national competitions. Wanting their younger counterparts to enjoy a similar experience, they created a ...

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There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...