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Education: Maths secrets of M&Ms revealed
M&M sweets pack together more densely than perfect spheres when randomly jumbled in a container, scientists say. Same-sized spheres were previously thought to have the highest "packing fraction" - the relative density of objects when shoved in a container. The discovery may help development of new materials
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Counting on Distant Worlds: Math as an Interstellar Language.
If some day we receive an information-rich signal from another star, no one expects it to be written in English, Chinese, or Swahili. Instead, researchers engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) often suggest that mutual comprehension will come through the language of math
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The @ sign around the world - it's a little monkey. And a pig's tail.
The @ sign seems a straightforward beast. We call it the 'at sign', which is what that symbol in the middle of email addresses is commonly known as here in the UK, in the US and most other English-speaking countries. It even carries that literal translation in other languages
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Algebra = X in one US school, Y in another. Teaching inconsistent as standards waver.
After taking Maryland's state algebra test this year, Susan Gruenspecht's students at Westland Middle School in Montgomery County wanted to know: Where was the algebra?
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Trouble for School Inc..
Edison gets scolded for dubious math and weak grades. Can it improve?
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Mathematician takes on 100-year-old problem online.
A British mathematician is attempting to solve one of the subject's most elusive problems on the internet. Southampton University professor Martin Dunwoody has posted an answer to Poincare's theory on his faculty website. The effort as it stands falls short of a definitive answer
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Calculators 'not used enough' in lessons.
Primary school pupils in England are not taught to use calculators enough in their daily maths lessons, inspectors say
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New push to get British workers adding up.
Employers are urged to help the many workers in England who cannot add up, read or write properly
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Maths error exam board loses 20 students' coursework.
The UK exam board which set a maths question that was impossible to answer has also lost pupils' AS-level coursework. It has been reported that Edexcel lost the coursework portfolios of 20 performing arts students at North Devon College, Barnstaple. It has recently emerged a printing error on an AS-level maths paper meant 2,500 students were faced with a question that could not be answered
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UK maths teachers halved since 1983.
The UK government is facing a huge new hurdle in its education revolution - a collapse in the number of maths teachers
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Finally, some good news for tired Canadian educators.
Canada's 15-year-olds rank among the best in the world in mathematics, science and reading, an international study shows
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Extra maths and English classes `failed to improve standards'.
Catch-up classes for British children struggling in maths and English have failed to bring them up to the Government's required standard. A multi-million pound experiment with summer literacy and numeracy lessons for pupils lagging behind at secondary school led to fewer than half reaching Level 4, according to a study by academics at King's College, London
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Court battle of the 'metric martyrs'.
Lawyers for five UK market traders fighting to be allowed to serve their customers in imperial measures have argued EU metric rules are infringing cultural rights. The five are fighting convictions and court orders made against them after they traded in pounds
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Welsh-speaking children 'better at maths than English-speakers'.
Children who speak Welsh can complete maths tests more easily than their English-speaking counterparts, say university experts. The discrepancy is said to be partly due to the fact Welsh numbers are named in a way which directly reflects their numerical properties
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Principia Mathematica III.
He was a child prodigy, publishing his first paper at 15. Now Stephen Wolfram says he has created a new kind of science based on simple computer programs rather than equations. It's a bold claim, but it has taken him 20 years--ten of them thinking and working late into the night, and publishing nothing
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Pre-school squiggles.
Learning to identify numerals--the written symbols for numbers--is a basic math skill. Young children gradually come to understand that various written shapes represent specific quantities. The 2 squiggle means there are two of something, while a 5 squiggle indicates that there are five
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Teachers vie to be Mr. Wizard.
Science teachers battle to build the best on-the-spot experiment at the San Francisco Exploratorium Iron Science Teacher competition. Also: Teachers meet to discuss how to improve math education
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Byte Sized.
Only three countries - Burma, Liberia, and the USA - have not adopted the International System of Units (SI, or metric system) as their official system of weights and measures. Although use of the metric system has been sanctioned by law in the USA since 1866, it has been slow in displacing the American adaptation of the British Imperial System. However, measuring computer data is fully international. Find out what equates to 38 virtual miles of full filing cabinets or what a "quintillion" is in the real world, at our weights and measures page
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Slide rule clings to life in the Internet Age.
If California's energy crisis turns computers into pricey paperweights and makes AA batteries as scarce as vacuum tubes, Tom Wyman will still be able to perform vital calculations such as finding the square root of 144 or figuring the value of 2 to the power of 10. That is, if he can decide which of his approximately 450 slide rules to use
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Knowledge Knows No Boundaries.
A new math and science software project combines the talents of teachers and techies in Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia. They'll work together over the Net to develop new methods of teaching with technology
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UK Grocer Steven Thoburn loses court battle to save pounds and ounces.
"The verdict gives a green light for trading standards officers all over Britain to blitz thousands of small stores and supermarkets," according to The Sun's David Wooding. Mr Thoburn, described by the judge as "a decent, hard-working man", was given a conditional six-month discharge for breach of the Weights and Measures Act
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Russell Crowe plays maths genius in new movie "A Beautiful Mind".
Ron Howard is directing the Gladiator star on location at the world famous Princeton University in a biopic of a Nobel Prize-winning economist who suffered bouts of paranoid schizophrenia for 30 years, says The Mirror
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Extra Credit.
Math teachers describe the most difficult concept for their students to learn, and students discuss concepts they have trouble grasping...
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Math Illiteracy Is Trouble.
The problem of math illiteracy among Americans has important economic, social and personal consequences, mathematicians say...
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Archimedes Gets a Makeover.
Scientists are using modern technology to unlock the secrets of the only known copy of a 2,300-year-old text by the mathematician Archimedes...
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Math and science seek Fed funds
The math and science scores of American students are abysmal. A new bill in Congress seeks more funding for teacher training, recruitment and signing bonuses...
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Ethnomaths.
Maths teachers in California are finding that kids get excited by "ethnomaths" - maths taught from a global, cultural perspective rather than the traditional European. Sceptics, of course, think it's all a passing fad...
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US Teachers Not Making the Grade.
A commission of educators releases a report on the state of math and science teaching in the United States. The results? Someone will be staying after school...
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