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Girls closed the gender gap in math; then the pandemic struck

A version of this story was originally published by EdSource. Just before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys’ scores in math and finally closed the long-standing gender gap in a subject ...
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‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Mathematics started with numbers—clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a far more abstract ...