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Math Education It always shocks me to see high school students struggling to solve simple arithmetic problems. I happened to casually glance at the algebra homework of a ninth grader one day and saw...
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View ArticleThe Impact of Voting Theory on Democratic Choice
The Disadvantage of a Single-Choice System The famed democratic system of Athens was based off of a simple binary vote. Participants placed their rock in a jar to indicate political preference, and the...
View ArticleThe Relevance of Chaos Theory to Medical Analysis
The term “chaos” typically engenders a sense of complete randomness or disorder, evoking turbulent images such as a traffic accident or a noisy birthday party. But there is another definition for this...
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