A new era of "Swedish rounding" hits U.S. registers soon. Learn why the nickel may be on the chopping block, and how to save money by choosing the right way to pay.

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Last December, several members of a national organization for math education leaders came together to issue a warning. A growing movement in the field, they claimed, was calling on schools to adopt an ...

Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair. Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...

You've probably noticed something strange happening at checkout lately. The cashier apologizes and says they're short on pennies. Your change gets rounded. Sometimes you gain a few cents, sometimes ...

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Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

More fast-food, convenience, and travel stop chains are rounding cash totals to the nearest nickel when pennies aren’t available Big retailers and grocers are doing it too, often rounding in the ...

In late 2021, as the housing market overheated and the Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate hovered near zero, Tony Yang found an unconventional way to fund his down payment. He logged into his ...

The SeattleStatGROWS program (Statistical Growing Research Opportunities for Undergraduates in Washington State) is a Fred Hutch Cancer Center initiative aimed at educating and mentoring undergraduate ...