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A video posted on YouTube yesterday, February 9, by user Vihart (a self-described professional mathemusician at the Khan Academy) introduces a very weird fractal number to the world. It is designated by the word Wau, after an ancient Greek letter, and the letter F is used to indicate it.
As Vihart explains, there i... |
10 February 2012
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and the Virginia Department of Education have teamed up to conduct the first-ever 18-month pilot of HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 for iPad.
Using the world's only full-curriculum Algebra app for Apple tablet computers, the pilot encompasses the 2012 Spring semester and the 2012–2013 ... |
27 January 2012
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The results of a study conducted by Prof. Michelle Riconscente from the University of Southern California in partnership with GameDesk may act as evidence iPads are key to boosting student math skills.The study, labeled as experimental, was conducted to determine whether Motion Math, a fractions game designed for App... |
8 December 2011
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Learning and rehearsing elementary algebra is never a tedious task if you have a friend to help you out. With Math Practice you can put to the test the skills of kids studying addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Quite often children need assistance when taking their first steps in learning new thin... |
25 September 2011
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In a new study of the reasons that may ultimately hinder children's abilities to achieve even basic math proficiency, experts have determined that some kids simply lack an intuitive grasp of the whole concept of working with numbers. When adding this to the fact that mathematics are hard to learn and practice ev... |
20 June 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that learning mathematics truly changes the human brain, in a way that is clearly visible when using medical brain-imaging techniques. Investigators say that as little as one year of math lessons can have a tremendous impact on the way children g... |
9 June 2011
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Researchers in the United States are currently trying to figure out ways of integrating music with the objective of helping students be more focused and creative in learning mathematics and science. Around the world, children, adolescents and teenagers are entirely captivated by music, and carry it with them everywhe... |
16 May 2011
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While caves are the stuff of wonder for speleologists and of adventure for spelunkers, they also represent a mystery for physicists, who have been trying to figure out how the structures form for years. Now, a new mathematical model was developed to explain the mystery.One of the most important puzzles related to cav... |
1 December 2010
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The long-term belief that boys are better at mathematics than girls appears to have no foundation in facts, researchers behind a new scientific study report. They reveal that an international survey that looked at numerous men and women across the globe and assessed their mathematical training found no major discrepa... |
6 January 2010
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Any help in child education is sought-after from both perspectives, that of the parent and that of the youngster. In the first case all things that can contribute positively to the kid's upbringing and thus lift off the parents' shoulders some of the many responsibilities are yearned for. From the children&... |
8 June 2009
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Ever since their appearance, somewhere in the 1980s, video games gained a solid and ever-growing support from the young. But that is not all. Year after year, they began growing in importance and nowadays they constitute a whole, constantly flourishing industry. And a profitable one too. There are many free titles at... |
22 April 2009
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The popular video-sharing website has recently gained further praise, as more and more videos detailing subjects such as math, physics, sciences and biology are starting to get posted on-line by specialists or by people who have a gift of explaining fairly complex notions very easily. Students who flunk these subject... |
12 December 2008
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If you are involved in some activity or another that occasionally requires you to make fast calculations in fields such as geometry, algebra, number theory or anything else related to these, it may be worth your while to try out Sage, an open source, free math software. It could prove to be just the tool you needed i... |
4 September 2008
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In the majority of cases, mathematics proved to be, at some point or another, a pain in the neck for each of us. No matter if it's geometry, algebra, trigonometry or whatever other fields math might have, we have all experienced bitter frustration when a problem just could not be solved or properly understood. O... |
31 July 2008
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It is generally believed that boys are much better in math than girls, although a new study reveals that in countries with gender equality, girls are as good as boys in math, while in cultures where girls are not considered equal to boys the difference is obvious. This so-called gender gap was previously blamed on bi... |
2 June 2008
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Some people cannot say how much it is two plus two, but chimps can! After having recently humiliated college students in tests of short term memory made by a Japanese team, chimps keep coming with surprises. A new research made at Duke University and published on the on-line journal PLoS Biology found that chimps had... |
18 December 2007
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Two students from the Fayetteville-Manlius High School managed to bring a lot of new visitors to YouTube after they posted an exciting music hit on the page. The two seniors created a 92-second clip to explain their attraction for math using the well-known "What You Know" hit sang by rapper T.I. It all started when t... |
1 May 2007
08:57 GMT |
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