By incorporating this quick physical game into a math lesson, teachers help students focus on the task at hand.

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Abstract: We present a multi-way parallel corpus of Math Word Problems (MWPs) in nine languages, including six low-resource languages. To date, this is the largest multilingual MWP dataset available.

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The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

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Abstract: Costas arrays special permutation matrices have widespread applications in many fields such as radar signal design and cryptography. However, so far the two basic problems-the existence and ...