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“For that, Reform Judaism was not interesting at all.” After graduating Swarthmore, they both started doctoral programs at Harvard—she in mathematics, he in classics. Both grew steadily more observant during their programs. By the time they left ...
2014-06-25 04:42:00
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Young visitors at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibtion 2012. Photo copyright Royal Society Photograph: Royal Society/flickr How do you know what you want to do with your life at 16? In truth very many children have no idea. Since they are too often ...
2014-06-25 08:56:00
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It was also right up Noether's alley. Her thesis and subsequent work had focused on "invariants," the mathematics of how various quantities remain unchanged as you change some of their underlying parameters. This was, in short, just the sort of thing to ...
2014-06-25 04:34:00
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Harrison County Board of Education met Wednesday night in special session to talk about 'Common Core', a curriculum developed to try to get schools across the country using the same educational standards.
2014-06-25 08:27:52
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By combining advanced mathematics with high-performance computing, scientists have developed a tool that allowed them to calculate a fundamental property of most atoms on the periodic table to historic accuracy, reducing error by a factor of a thousand in many cases. The technique also could be used to determine a host of other atomic properties important in fields like nuclear medicine and ...
2014-06-25 02:39:09
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The UK's current education system will not be "fit for purpose" in 20 years' time, according to the Royal Society. The science organisation has called on the Coalition Government to create new baccalaureate-style frameworks that place emphasis on vocational and academic learning across a broad range of subjects for students to take until they are 18 years old. The Royal Society said that the ...
2014-06-25 05:00:01
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Of last year’s 5th grade CRCT takers, 97 percent met or exceeded the standard in Reading, 97 percent in English/Language Arts, 93 in Mathematics, 87 in Science and 87 in Social Studies. At this grade level, GCPS saw an 8 percentage point increase in ...
2014-06-25 07:45:00
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There are so few a people in Kashmir whom one could discuss philosophy with, and fewer with whom one could learn on philosophy of science, especially philosophy of mathematics. There are intellectuals who are informed on many things but hardly any who have ...
2014-06-25 07:52:00
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[SA Info]The cream of the next generation of mathematicians, represented by 582 high school students from 109 countries, will converge on Cape Town in July for the 55th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) - the first to be held in Africa.
2014-06-25 10:30:31
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A growing movement argues that killing pi would make mathematics simpler, easier and even more beautiful -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
2014-06-25 10:46:54
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A symposium was recently held on the newly implemented Common Core State Standards, which was adopted by the New Jersey State Board of Education for revising English (ELA) and mathematics academic standards.
2014-06-25 11:10:50
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The International School Winterthur (ISW) is an IB World School, ISW is one of seven schools in Switzerland authorized to teach the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP) and Diploma Programme (DP). Over 30 nationalities are represented among the student body, aged 3-18 years.
2014-06-25 01:58:29
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Tauists (yes, they call themselves tauists) have compiled exhaustively long lists of equations—both common and esoteric, in both mathematics and physics—with 2π holding a central place. If 2π is the perennial theme, the almost magically recurring ...
2014-06-25 01:17:00
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Too many sixth form students do not have a realistic understanding of either the relevance of Mathematics and Statistics to their discipline or of the demands that will be put upon them in undergraduate study, according to a new report published today by ...
2014-06-24 11:20:00
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The 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Richard Taylor, the Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Russian entrepreneur and investor Yuri Milner ...
2014-06-25 12:57:00
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