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<div><p>Two dozen students gathered in a <span>Chaparral High School</span> classroom one recent morning, and judging by the looks on their faces, they may as well have been seated in midday detention rather than a test prep session. They were quiet, glum. A two-mile run followed by 500 push-ups would have been more enjoyable.</p><p>Each was there to prepare for the upcoming statewide proficiency exam in math. Just 164 of 844 Chaparral juniors and seniors had previously passed the test, a key st...

2011-10-20T02:33:41ZLas Vegas Suntag:informsciencenetwork.com,2011-10-20:/mathematics/jones-aggressive-approach-students-4846508a/

<div><p>Dwight Jones has a deal for <span><a title="Las Vegas" href="/topic/Las+Vegas" >Las Vegas</a></span> businesses and taxpayers.Give him time to innovate and money to invest strategically, the <span id="clark_county" class="inform"><a title="Clark County" href="/topic/Clark+County" >Clark County</a></span> Schools superintendent says, and the district will provide schools that produce qualified employees for the workforce and help attract companies by providing good education for their emp...

2011-08-17T17:30:18ZAFP Global Editiontag:informsciencenetwork.com,2011-08-17:/mathematics/google-pays-tribute-fermats-theorem-4820761a/

<div><p><a title="Google Inc." href="/topic/Google+Inc." >Google</a> paid tribute on Wednesday to 17th century French mathematician <a title="Pierre de Fermat" href="/topic/Pierre+de+Fermat" >Pierre de Fermat</a>, transforming its celebrated homepage logo into a blackboard featuring "Fermat's Last Theorem."</p><p>Google marked what would have been Fermat's 410th birthday by replacing its logo, known as the Google "doodle," with the problem that vexed mathematicians for centuries.</p><p>In the ma...

2011-04-28T04:30:27ZAFP Global Editiontag:informsciencenetwork.com,2011-04-28:/mathematics/jesus-problem-led-russian-genius-poincare-4773572a/

<div><p>The reclusive Russian maths genius who solved one of the world's most perplexing mysteries said in a rare interview Thursday that he began his training by figuring out how Jesus walked on water.</p><p><span>Grigory Perelman</span> shot to international fame by solving the seemingly intractable Poincare conjecture and then turning down the million-dollar prize awarded in the mathematics world's version of the Nobel.</p><p>The 44-year-old now lives with his mother in a working-class <span>...

2011-04-13T08:00:10ZReuters Life! Online Reporttag:informsciencenetwork.com,2011-04-13:/mathematics/high-school-students-harder-classes-4767189a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - The typical American high school student is taking harder courses and performing better in them, according to a new study released on Wednesday.</p><p>The 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress High School Transcript Study, published by the same group who produce "The Nation's Report Card," underlines the importance of rigorous curriculum, particularly with higher-...

2011-02-25T14:30:37ZAFP Global Editiontag:informsciencenetwork.com,2011-02-25:/mathematics/hong-kong-math-whiz-worlds-highest-mark-4747127a/

<div><p>A 16-year-old <a title="Hong Kong" href="/topic/Hong+Kong" >Hong Kong</a> student has notched up the highest mark in an international maths test, his secondary school said Friday, despite barely studying for an exam he claimed "wasn't very difficult".</p><p><span>Anthony Leung</span> sat the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) exams last June, when he was 15, and learned this week he had bested thousands of other students.</p><p>"It was quite a shock. I was v...

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2010-11-18T14:21:28ZAFP Global Editiontag:informsciencenetwork.com,2010-11-18:/mathematics/airport-screeners-checked-square-root-4383532a/

<div><p>What if airport screeners looked at would-be passengers and instead of assessing the color of their skin, asked: "What's the square root of your likelihood of being a terrorist?"</p><p>Such is the world imagined by an American computer scientist who argues that racial profiling to root out potential terrorists is actually less effective than random searches, but says some simple math could offer a better solution.</p><p>"When you have any profiling at all, it quickly becomes less effecti...

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2010-11-12T11:32:20ZAFP Global Editiontag:informsciencenetwork.com,2010-11-12:/mathematics/russian-maths-problem-teaches-students-whos-power-4379278a/

<div><p>"(Russian President Dmitry) Medvedev must guess the number imagined by (Prime Minister Vladimir) Putin or he will be fired from his post as president. How can he save his position?" read the problem, posted by <span><a title="St. Petersburg" href="/topic/St.+Petersburg" >Saint Petersburg</a></span> teacher <span>Grigory Chepichev</span> for the children in his mathematics club.</p><p>"There was nothing political in this mathematical problem, which I invented with my colleagues for the ch...

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2010-06-18T03:16:54ZAP Newstag:informsciencenetwork.com,2010-06-18:/photo/rapping-teacher-2303354p/

In this photo taken on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010, Algebra teacher LaMar Queen wears his rap glasses as he sings along to his Algebra students at the <a title="Los Angeles Academy" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Academy" >Los Angeles Academy</a> in <a title="Los Angeles" href="/topic/Los+Angeles" >Los Angeles</a>. The <a title="Los Angeles Unified School District" href="/topic/Los+Angeles+Unified+School+District" >Los Angeles Unified School District</a> teacher has won two awards for his innovative teac...

2010-05-11T00:16:09ZAP Newstag:informsciencenetwork.com,2010-05-11:/photo/college-remediation-2258972p/

In this photo made Wednesday, April 21, 2010, teacher <a title="Lizette Foley" href="/topic/Lizette+Foley" >Lizette Foley</a> teaches a preparatory math class at <a title="Broward College" href="/topic/Broward+College" >Broward College</a> in Davie, <a title="Florida" href="/topic/Florida" >Fla.</a> (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)<div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2010&#160; <a href="http://www.ap.org">AP News</a></div></div><div><p></p><br /><br /></div>...

2010-04-08T13:18:27ZAP Newstag:informsciencenetwork.com,2010-04-08:/photo/teacher-merit-pay-2221808p/

In this photo taken, April 7, 2010, Trenise Duvernay teaches fourth grade math class at the <a title="Alice M. Harte Charter School" href="/topic/Alice+M.+Harte+Charter+School" >Alice M. Harte Charter School</a> in <a title="New Orleans" href="/topic/New+Orleans" >New Orleans</a>. Duvernay wants to be rewarded for helping students succeed. She is eligible for $2,000 a year or more in merit bonuses based on how well her students perform in classroom observations and on achievement tests. (AP Phot...

2010-03-30T14:46:18ZAP Newstag:informsciencenetwork.com,2010-03-30:/photo/math-genius-2212848p/

FILE - This undated file photo released by the International Mathematician Congress shows <a title="Grigory Perelman" href="/topic/Grigory+Perelman" >Grigory Perelman</a>. On March 18, 2010, the Clay Mathematics Institute of <a title="Cambridge (Massachusetts)" href="/topic/Cambridge+(Massachusetts)" >Cambridge, Mass</a>, announced it had awarded Perelman a $1 million Millennium Prize for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century. (AP Photo/International Mathematicians Con...

2010-03-30T13:17:50ZAP Newstag:informsciencenetwork.com,2010-03-30:/photo/russia-math-genius-2212302p/

In this photo taken late Sunday, March 28, 2010, <a title="Lubov Perelman" href="/topic/Lubov+Perelman" >Lubov Perelman</a>, mother of Russian mathematician <a title="Grigory Perelman" href="/topic/Grigory+Perelman" >Grigory Perelman</a>, 43, is seen through a window of their apartment in <a title="St. Petersburg" href="/topic/St.+Petersburg" >St. Petersburg</a>, <a title="Russia" href="/topic/Russia" >Russia</a>. On March 18, 2010, the Clay Mathematics Institute of <a title="Cambridge (Massach...