Math News Archives

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• Holloway column

  BBC News - One minute he was sat doing mathematics next to me in school and the following week he comes in with purple hair because he liked some band. I thought it was dangerous. The Sex Pistols....was that Sid Vicious? Now he was as mad as a march hare. ...
  2007-09-27 05:53:00

• The Shrinking World: How it Affects Small and Midsized Manufacturers

  Industry Week - Jutras holds a master's of applied science from Boston University and a bachelor's from Merrimack College in mathematics, with concentration in physics and computer science. Gift Terms And Conditions No purchase necessary. Sweepstakes open to legal ...
  2007-09-30 10:33:00

• West’s criticism of Iran’s human rights record is politically ...

  Tehran Times - TEHRAN -- The West has frequently conducted propaganda campaigns against the Islamic Republic of Iran in regard to human rights issues, Institute for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM) Director Mohammad Javad Larijani said in an interview ...
  2007-09-30 01:46:00

• Treasure Coast Obituaries

  Palm Beach Interactive - She was a respected teacher in the Ashtabula, Ohio school system for over 30 years, primarily teaching mathematics at State Road Elementary School and Columbus Junior High School. She coached girl's basketball, track and volleyball for many years and ...
  2007-09-30 01:03:00

• Employment Act extension will help the poor

  Tribune - Ram Prakash Bambah, who later became the Vice-Chancellor, joined at Hoshiarpur as a Reader in mathematics. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was an economics student and then a research scholar at Hoshiarpur. (Later he served in Chandigarh also.) ...
  2007-09-30 02:00:00

• Behavior Worth Medicating?

  New American - The DSM, in its fourth iteration as DSM-IV, and the soon to be released DSM-V, contains such gems as Mathematics Disorder, Caffeine Disorder, Disorder of Written Expression, Telephone Scatalogia, and Malingering. Thus, virtually any visit to a mental ...
  2007-09-30 03:34:00

• Irish are nailed by the hands of latter-day Maradona

  Daily Mail - All too aware of the mathematics of the exercise, O'Gara aimed a close-range penalty towards the corner only for Jerry Flannery's throw into the middle of the ensuing line-out to fly clean through Paul O'Connell's hands. The blunder cost Ireland 50 ...
  2007-09-30 05:07:00

• Nasty president … and what’s that smell?

  Austin American-Statesman - Bay wrote: “Intelligence is an art - a grand, interpretive collusion of linguistics, geography, mathematics, history, theology, psychology, physics, metaphysics and every other human means of analysis and explanation.” Whew! That explains the ...
  2007-09-30 05:21:00

• Tabby or not tabby

  Times Online - Check out the syllabus from a Baptist school in Texas: “Students will examine the nature of God as they progress in their understanding of mathematics. Students will understand the absolute consistency of mathematical principles and know that God ...
  2007-09-30 03:34:00

• Freecycle members told not to trade weapons

  Croydon Guardian - Have a look on the forums, there is overwhelming evidence of young people who could hardly string a coherent sentence together to start with, becoming much more literate and engaging successfully in mathematics to a level which would astound the ...
  2007-09-30 05:35:00

• Sputnik Left Legacy for U.S. Science Education

  NPR News - I cannot resist a first reply, which is that not everything is known, as yet, about the wheel, either the mathematics of it or the physics," Hawkins wrote. "I am thinking ... of the world of modern physics, in which one may learn to think of ...
  2007-09-30 04:24:00

• More Letters to the Editor

  Seattle Post Intelligencer - As a result there is a significant portion of our students have minimal mathematics skills, even less of an understanding of history, and the list goes on. The state's definition of "basic education" doesn't include being a day care service, a ...
  2007-09-30 04:52:00

• Sputnik Left Legacy for U.S. Science Education (NPR)

  All Things Considered , September 30, 2007 · When Sputnik's "beep" first reached Earth on Oct. 4, 1957, many Americans dreaded that the Russian satellite was spying on them.
  2007-09-30 04:41:18

• Hand-Held Calculators' Milestone Number (Washington Post)

  In a darkened Algebra II classroom, all eyes were on an illuminated graphing calculator projected three feet high on the white board as students studied a series of graphs and talked about absolute value functions.
  2007-09-30 06:08:59

• Faulty Foundation, Bane of Science Education – Don (This Day)

  Vice chancellor, Niger Delta University (NDU), Professor Chris Ikporiko at the weekend said “bad foundation” in science and mathematics at secondary school level is responsible for the lopsidedness in the admission processes in favour of art-based courses in the nation’s universities.
  2007-09-30 05:31:00

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