For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because trigonometry is built on it. That logic, drilled into students and scholars ...

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U.S. students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and rapidly accelerated after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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