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Students can get hands-on by incorporating natural objects into curiosity-driven math lessons like measuring and sorting.

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Earlier this month, 36 sharp-witted high school students from around the globe stepped foot on the warm and breezy campus of Stanford University. Out of more than 4,000 students from more than 2,000 ...