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MathAltitude School of Mathematics is offering a six-week summer program from July 7th to August 15th, in an effort to help students avoid knowledge loss throughout the summer. Studies show that most students lose nearly two months of mathematics knowledge ...
2014-06-29 06:18:00
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It's simple mathematics: Subtract bad teachers, add incentives to keep the good ones and that equals better student performance in troubled schools. When Chancellor Carmen Fariña was chosen about six months ago to lead the nation’s largest school system ...
2014-06-28 04:36:00
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even in the arts. "We should constantly remind ourselves that mathematics is utilised in many spheres and aspects of life, it is a universal language and one of the core subjects that cannot be escaped or forgotten," Don Mullings, civil engineer ...
2014-06-29 02:17:00
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“This is a shift for an entire society,” he said. “No one should be under any illusion that it’s going to take just a year or two to rethink the way that we teach mathematics, because it is really challenging.” The state education department has ...
2014-06-29 01:08:00
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On Saturday, May 17, 2014, the following local residents graduated from Thomas Aquinas College, in Santa Paula, CA, after completing a rigorous program of classical liberal education that includes four years of mathematics, natural science, philosophy, and theology.
2014-06-29 07:35:26
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Mathematicians are finally being offered an honour equivalent to, and in financial terms more generous than, the Nobel prizes for chemistry, physics and medicine. The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics has announced its first five winners, each of whom will be given US$3m, two-and-a-half times the current Nobel prize money and far [...]
2014-06-29 09:21:45
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UCLA mathematics professor Terence Tao added another scholarly achievement to his collection last week. The Fields Medal recipient and MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow won the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, earning him a $3 million prize. Tao ...
2014-06-29 08:27:00
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It’s a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does ...
2014-06-29 02:33:00
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However, not all things in math are absolute. That’s according to Jordan Ellenberg, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. Ellenberg talks about the ...
2014-06-29 02:47:00
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