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Like generations of men in his ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) family in Israel, 36-year-old Moshe Friedman never learned mathematics, science, English or any other “secular” subject. Until age 30, he spent long hours in yeshiva studying Talmud to the ...
2015-03-04 06:13:00
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This is significant not only because women are severely under-represented in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields of study and occupations, but also because graduates of these fields are in high demand in the labour market and ...
2015-03-04 05:37:00
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On the lawn between the Student Recreation Center and the Titan Gym, Associated Students, Inc. Board of Directors candidates from two colleges came to discuss why they deserve to represent their respective colleges. The candidates are trying to represent ...
2015-03-03 06:00:00
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A popular mathematics textbook from Shanghai will be published in the UK this summer, as part of the country's efforts to learn from the city's excellent mathematics teaching methods.
2015-03-05 02:24:45
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They looked at digital and print K-8 mathematics materials from widely used publishers—including Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—as well as from some lesser-known providers whose texts passed state review processes. The results echo ...
2015-03-04 11:57:00
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In a 1998 episode of the hit animated television show “The Simpsons,” the character more famous for his love of doughnuts than mathematics is shown in front of a blackboard working on an equation. That equation predicted the mass of the Higgs boson ...
2015-03-04 02:08:00
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One evening in 2009, French mathematician Cédric Villani stepped into his children's room. He locked the door, turned off the light and began to pace, pondering the statistical properties of plasma. A few metres away, his wife, Claire, was in the kitchen ...
2015-03-04 04:04:00
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After acing an international math competition, two Nashua sisters are now focusing their efforts on an even bigger goal of narrowing the gender gap in mathematics. Nisha and Ankita Devasia took the American Mathematical Competition, or AMC 10, a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice exam in secondary school mathematics comprised of algebra and geometry problems. This year, the AMC 10 ...
2015-03-04 09:54:32
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Between the two World Wars, Poland experienced a hugely influential flourishing of talent
2015-03-04 07:06:56
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Oh that’s good. What is your percentage? I am sorry, it is 60 per cent. Oh it is ok, what is your percentage of marks in science and mathematics? You must have been privy to such conversations in your life too. It seems, currently, no other subjects ...
2015-03-04 06:51:00
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Leave your calculators at home: a sharp pencil, an eraser, and your thinking cap is all Grade 8 to 12 students need to participate in the annual British Columbia Secondary School Mathematics Contest (BCSSMC) for the Okanagan Region. Many local high schools ...
2015-03-04 06:10:00
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Newton was enrolled at the King’s School in Grantham, a town in Lincolnshire, where he lodged with a local apothecary and was soon introduced to the fascinating world of chemistry which he loved as much as mathematics and physics. His mother had other ...
2015-03-04 08:16:00
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Lima, Mar. 04. The regions reaching the highest growth regarding reading comprehension and mathematics performances, in the 2014 Student Census Evaluation (ECE), were: Piura and Ayacucho, specifically among second-grade students, informed the Ministry of ...
2015-03-04 08:06:00
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The well-paid but discredited chorus of polluter-paid chicken littles has struck up its lucrative dirge in Virginia, by floating a "study" that claims economic doomsday will ensue if Virginia takes action on climate change by reducing carbon pollution ...
2015-03-04 06:54:00
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A recent tweet offers a whole new frontier for potential physical mnemonics: dancing mathematics. The uncredited illustration shows off dance moves for 15 different mathematical equations. Rather than rely on a graphing calculator, the stick figures use ...
2015-03-04 07:31:00
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