Math News Archives

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• D D who?

  Business Standard - True to form, India has forgotten this scholar of scholars, the historian of historians, the man who in his 59 years contributed to mathematics, genetics, physics, statistics, Sanskrit and numismatics, among others. If anyone can be called a genius ...
  2007-11-24 10:29:00

• Venezuelan student leader works for Chávez

  Miami Herald - His father, Pedro Rodríguez, was a mathematics teacher active in the Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Party of Venezuela, or PRV. The younger Rodríguez was named for his father's cousin, Héctor Vicente Rodríguez, a PRV militant who was killed in a ...
  2007-11-23 03:53:00

• Reading ahead of math for most

  Garden City Telegram - Kansas students should be especially proud of their tremendous gains in mathematics achievement," Kansas Education Commissioner Alexa Posny said in a press release. "Increasingly higher targets each year in mathematics have been met by our students." ...
  2007-11-24 10:51:00

• Serving under 6 PMs!

  Sri Lanka Sunday Times - C.P. de Silva was a double first in mathematics and excelled, by reason of his previous experience as a Civil Servant, in matters relating to land and irrigation. "Philip Gunawardena is the only Minister I have worked with since the beginning of ...
  2007-11-24 11:48:00

• New high school diploma requirements coming

  News Register - And some 42 percent of employers rate high school graduates as deficient in their overall preparation: writing, 72 percent; reading, 38 percent; mathematics, 53 percent; professionalism/work ethic, 70 percent; and critical thinking/problem solving ...
  2007-11-24 11:27:00

• Commercial pilots may get trained in a year’s time

  Economic Times - NEW DELHI: The total time taken to train a person into a commercial pilot (CPL) is likely to come down to under a year from 18 months for those who don’t have the mandatory physics and mathematics in class 12. The National Open School (NOS) under ...
  2007-11-24 01:35:00

• City’s mums worry their kid won’t get into Harvard without pre ...

  Daily Times - ... popularity of pre-nurseries is the growing number of working mothers and the shrinking number of joint families. “I had no choice but to put my daughter into school when she was 15 months old,” explained Natasha, who teaches O-level Mathematics ...
  2007-11-24 03:23:00

• Bird confusion prompts architecture debate

  Earthtimes - Ornithologist Daniel Klem said that while officials at Atlanta's Emory University draped their Mathematics and Science Center in black mesh to avoid untimely avian deaths, the architecture industry's overall response is another story. "We know what it ...
  2007-11-24 04:34:00

• Bird confusion prompts architecture debate (UPI)

  Glass-coated buildings in cities like Atlanta have proven to be slaughterhouses for confused birds -- and are at the heart of an architectural debate.
  2007-11-24 04:50:56

• The General commands respect for his music

  Beeld - His young son, Solani, says their father always “encourages us to pass mathematics even though he has never gone to school”. After the death of his own father, Shirinda looked after his siblings, including Simon Shirinda, aka Gee Gee Chapu, a ...
  2007-11-24 08:56:00

• Eco-friendly buildings turn bird killers

  Times of India - The soaring glass windows in Emory's Mathematics and Science Centre reflect the woodsy view, confusing hapless birds who smash into it at full speed. To hear John Wegner, Emory's chief environmental officer, describe it, it's also a ...
  2007-11-24 10:51:00

• Eco-friendly buildings turn bird killers (The Times of India)

  It's the tale of good intentions paving the way to hell, of the protector turning killer. Emory University in an effort to "go green" decided on an environmentally friendly design, which included the structure being largely glass. But there was an unintended consequence: It kills birds.
  2007-11-24 10:58:59

• OWEN: ENGLAND STILL A WORLD POWER

  Sporting Life - Michael Owen insists England are a major force in world football - even if their Euro 2008 campaign comes to a crushing end on Saturday night. Although mathematics dictate England will enter their final game against Croatia on Wednesday with ...
  2007-11-24 03:20:00

• Nominees sought for best science and math teachers

  Saipan Tribune - The National Science Foundation is now seeking nominees for the 2008 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. The nominations are open to public or private elementary school teachers-kindergarten to 6th grade-in one of ...
  2007-11-24 05:50:00

• Nominees sought for best science and math teachers (Saipan Tribune)

  The National Science Foundation is now seeking nominees for the 2008 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
  2007-11-24 06:01:50

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