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How to Bring Beast Academy to Your Child's Classroom

Discover how to champion Beast Academy in your child's classroom, where 90% of educators report improved problem-solving skills and students thrive through engaging, collaborative mathematical challenges that transform how they learn.
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The Full Potential Trap: Why Optimizing Gifted Kids Can Break Them (and Us)

Dr. Hui S. Jiang explores how a focus on maximizing gifted children's potential can create harmful pressure and anxiety. When success becomes the measure of worth, children learn to equate their identity with achievement, leading to perfectionism and fear of failure. Dr. Jiang shares how parents can break this cycle by intentionally shifting focus away from outcomes, normalizing struggle, creating non-performance spaces, and verbally affirming unconditional love. This thoughtful examination reminds us that our children's worth isn't measured by accomplishments, and that genuine curiosity and joy in learning matter more than external validation.
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Of Cows And Coding: Preparing for the USA Computing Olympiad

The USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) challenges its contestants with bizarre scenarios involving millions of cows or billions of liters of milk, and only careful coding can set things right on Farmer John's chaotic farm. Learn more about how AoPS can help you prepare for this contest (and become an even stronger problem-solver!)
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The Math of Big-Money Lotteries: Your Chances of Winning the Powerball Jackpot

What are your chances for winning the Powerball or Mega Millions? We dive into strategies for increasing your chances of winning.
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The Math of Winning Wordle: From Letter Distribution to First-Word Strategies

From letter distribution to first-word strategies, we analyze Wordle word lists for patterns and come up with tips for playing — and winning — mathematically.
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Farther in Space, Further in Time: What the James Webb Space Telescope Will Show Us

The James Webb Space Telescope, named after NASA’s second administrator and nicknamed “Webb,” or “JWST”, blasted off into space on December 25th, 2021 with a perfect launch. Physics Curriculum Developer Bryn Bishop explains what we can expect to learn throughout Webb's journey, and what we'll learn after it reaches its final destination.
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Highlights from Math History: Charles Babbage and His Difference Engine

Charles Babbage is one of the pioneers of modern computing, we discuss the math behind his "difference engine".

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