A high school math teacher at St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans, Michelle Blouin Williams, was looking for ingenuity when she and her colleagues set a school-wide math contest with a challenging ...
When she started a math contest with a bonus question challenging students to create a new proof for the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, teacher Michelle Blouin Williams didn’t expect ...
Here's how high school students solved a math problem that was once thought to be impossible. Their accomplishment challenges the notion proposed by mathematician Elisha Loomis in his 1927 book ...
As the school year ends, many students will be only too happy to see math classes in their rearview mirrors. It may seem to ...
You wouldn’t think that there could be a more boring topic in the world,” said a University of North Carolina professor. “And ...
A new study reveals the sun's magnetic field originates closer to the surface, solving a 400-year-old mystery first probed by ...
A small team of political scientists, statisticians and data scientists from Harvard University, New York University, and Yale University, has found that by switching to a new method to better ...
Off and on for the surprising stretch of forty years, beginning in 1949, the Gallup organization has polled the American public on the delicate subject of whether to lengthen the school year. For many ...
Yet I’ve watched presidential candidates dodge and weave through straightforward questions with answers that never would have held up in town meetings: places where every citizen can be a ...