Defining class for the purpose of legislation is a non-starter, writes Michael Chapman. Plus a letter from Patrick Yarker Further to your editorial on class becoming a legally protected characteristic ...

This is a graphical user interface (GUI) application built with Python and Tkinter, designed to solve linear programming problems using SciPy's optimization library (linprog). Generates a plot of the ...

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Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

Practical word problems are often considered one of the most complex parts of elementary school mathematics. They require students to understand the context of a math problem, identify what the ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the equivalence between a class of mixed-integer linear and linear programming prob-lems. By utilizing the addition of slack variables theorem, we demonstrate that ...

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Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.