Much attention has been focused on Donald Trump's use of words -- that is, his peculiar style of oratory. But more attention should be paid to another feature of his discourse: his use of numbers.
Picture a CFO scanning a cash-flow model where one interest rate cell sits off by a single percentage point. The spreadsheet ...
The cricketing ecosystem in Mumbai today resembles a series of interlocking circles—each guarding its own turf, each expecting favours in return for favours already rendered Decisions are made not ...
During his four-decade journey as a mathematician, Professor KC Sinha authored about 70 books that helped generations of students make sense of numbers. He now faces a tougher numbers test -- Bihar's ...
A school district in central Texas has removed “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” a classic young-adult novel dealing with the Holocaust, after reviewing books for material that could violate a new state law ...
Reading. Writing. Arithmetic. Traffic enforcement. Students are going back to school in Rhode Island, which means that after a freewheeling summer, motorists will have to tap the brakes to avoid a ...
AN excellent way to see one’s own country, or one’s own century, is to visit another. While I was making just such a mental pilgrimage to the eighth century, a recent interest in unconventional ...
The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a sense of quantity, sometimes called "numerosity," appears across a ...
The revival of the ties between the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has brought back to the political discourse how tie-ups are critical to the ...
The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) for 2024 was released on Tuesday highlighting significant improvement in reading and arithmetic skills of students. According to the findings of the ...