Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human. By Shafik Quoraishee Shafik Quoraishee is a machine-learning engineer ...

The iPad mini has always been an awkward member of the iPad family. Its form factor and price have made it hard to recommend. It’s also gone through periods of apparent neglect by Apple. In 2021, ...

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Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Outlander: Blood of My Blood Episode 5 “Needfire” joins two soulmates together forever. Halfway through the latest episode of the Starz show, Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) and Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet ...

Have you ever been overwhelmed by messy spreadsheets or struggled to collect data in an organized way? Imagine a scenario where instead of juggling multiple tabs and rows, you could guide users ...

Word problems are often described as “math stories” and can put complex mathematical operations into a more approachable form for students. But students often struggle when they see a combination of ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

Because My Hero Academia: Vigilantes takes place so many years into the hero world’s past, it means there are less active heroes in Japan overall. With so many criminals falling through the cracks, it ...

Dear Annie: My younger sister, “Rachel,” is 28 and has always been a bit of a mess when it comes to money. She jumps from job to job, spends impulsively and never seems to have savings. I, on the ...