How two high school students solved a 2,000-year-old math puzzle Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson surprised the math world when, as seniors in high school, they produced innovative solutions to a 2,000-year-old puzzle. 05/5/2024 - 12:00 pm | View Link
Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem, a problem that stumped math world for centuries A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge. 05/5/2024 - 12:00 pm | View Link
Math degrees are becoming less accessible—and this is a problem for business, government and innovation There's a strange trend in mathematics education in England. Math is the most popular subject at A-level since overtaking English in 2014. It's taken by around 85,000 and 90,000 students a year. 05/5/2024 - 8:50 am | View Link
Why Not Use the Unspent Homeless Services Money on Monthly Rent Vouchers? Since Portland can’t seem to figure out any way to spend all the money we gave them to deal with homelessness, how about giving poor folks a hand with the rent? That $250 million would pay for a whole ... 05/5/2024 - 4:27 am | View Link
An Old Abstract Field of Math Is Unlocking the Deep Complexity of Spacecraft Orbits Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning missions to far-off moons and planets. 05/5/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
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