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“Math anxiety hasn’t really been looked at in children in early elementary grades,” said Vukovic, a school psychologist and researcher of learning disabilities in mathematics. “The general consensus is that math anxiety doesn’t affect children ...
2013-03-04 06:10:14
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Climate scientist Dr. Emily Shuckburgh, from the University of Cambridge, will discuss the mathematics describing the underlying science that drives the observed changes in our weather patterns and show projections of future change. Dr. Shuckburgh is one ...
2013-03-04 12:14:11
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Fermat's Last Theorem—the idea that a certain simple equation had no solutions— went unsolved for nearly 350 years until Oxford mathematician Andrew Wiles created a proof in 1995. Now, Case Western Reserve University's Colin McLarty has shown the theorem can be proved more simply.
2013-03-04 09:20:55
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PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 4, 2013 - Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link Inc. (SEM Link), a national nonprofit organization that promotes K-12 student achievement and career exploration in math and science, launched its Indie Go Go Campaign ...
2013-03-04 01:53:00
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Games and Books Help Parents and Kids Play With Math Anytime and Anywhere Spanning the key topics in the elementary grades' Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, the products help parents, homeschooling families, librarians, and afterschool ...
2013-03-04 02:05:51
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Do the math and you’ll realize the deadline is looming for the Okanagan’s mathematically-inclined Grade 8 to 12 students (including those being home-schooled) to register for the preliminary round of the 2013 edition of the British Columbia Secondary School Mathematics Contest (BCSSMC) for the region.
2013-03-04 04:43:03
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Ten Thousand Students from senior high schools (SHS) in the country, will from next academic year benefit from Mathematics, Science and Technology Scholarship Scheme (MASTESS).
2013-03-04 07:34:11
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The stereotype that men surpass women in the mathematical and scientific fields has existed for decades. However, researchers from Brigham Young University, University of Miami and Rutgers University recently performed an experiment to challenge that stereotype and the gender gap associated with it. In their report — which was published by the Journal of Economic [...]
2013-03-04 07:54:46
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The problem with that, she said, is that math is also required in college. Taking a year-long break from mathematics could mean that students would perform poorly on their college placement tests and subsequently end up in remedial math courses.
2013-03-02 10:54:20
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Nine Ouachita Baptist University students were among participants who showcased their groundbreaking research at the 2013 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Posters at the Capitol event held at the Capitol Rotunda in Little Rock, on Feb. 6.
2013-03-04 01:31:54
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Mathematicians have shown Fermat's Last Theorem can be proved using only a small portion of Grothendieck's work. Specifically, the theorem can be justified using "finite order arithmetic."
2013-03-04 10:14:59
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In the week since I wrote about Oliver Sacks and the idiot savant twins, I’ve been catching up with Season 2 of “Touch,” the TV series about an autistic boy named Jake who has an inexplicable ability to commune with a secret world of numbers -- a buried skein of mathematics in which the Golden Mean, the fibonacci sequence, the genetic code, and the Kabbalah are all mysteriously connected ...
2013-03-04 12:22:27
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Mo Rocca rides a square-wheeled bicycle in the Museum of Mathematics in New York City. (Credit: CBS News) Math. The very word can conjure painful memories: long division, square roots, the quadratic equation. Not only do many of us not like math; we're also not very good at it. In an international test of 15-year-olds, the U.S. placed 24th out of 64 countries. "We don't currently, in this ...
2013-03-04 01:08:08
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As the role of computers in pure mathematics grows, researchers debate their reliability.
2013-03-04 01:32:29
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