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Beware the math. Some Republican lawmakers critical of President Barack Obama's stimulus package are using grade-school arithmetic to size up costs and consequences of all that spending. The math is satisfyingly simple but highly misleading.
New math scores show fourth-graders made no gains since 2007, the first time in two decades they have failed to improve. Eighth-graders advanced for yet another year.
Kids tired of experiencing the same old roller coasters have a new ride to tackle.
Is the government's cash-for-clunkers rebate and the thought of that new car smell about to pull you off the couch and into the nearest showroom?
Some of President Barack Obama's health care numbers don't seem to add up. And that's complicating his efforts to pass his top domestic priority.
House Republicans on Friday declared the nation's economic stimulus efforts a "dismal failure." But the convoluted math they used to disparage the recovery is as murky and meaningless as the White House formula championing the stimulus.
Circles and squares. Rectangles and angles. Cones and cylinders and trapezoids.
More than any other procedural crime-solving drama on TV today, Fox’s “Lie to Me” invites its audience to play along with its characters, and to take what we’ve learned and use it in our lives. After a character identifies someone as a liar, he or she discusses the revealing micro-expressions that led to their conclusion. That’s often followed by “Lie to Me’s” best part: photographs or video clips of famous people doing the exact same thing that teach us how to spot the same tell. In a March episode, Tim Roth’s character noted that when someone “looks down and away,” that indicates guilt. An image of a character doing that froze on the screen, and as the show went to commercial, it was replaced with rapid-fire images of Michael Vick and Rod Blagojevich both showing the exact same expression. Lesson learned.
I don’t want to sound paranoid or anything, but I'm starting to suspect that Nintendo has secretly hidden some sort of spy camera in my home.
Amid weeks of stock market turmoil, many worried investors have been tracking the daily trajectory of the Dow Jones industrial average like never before.
More kids than ever are taking algebra in eighth grade but not necessarily learning more math, private researchers report.
On an occasional evening at the kitchen table in Brooklyn, N.Y., Victoria Morey has been known to sit down with her 9-year-old son and do something she's not supposed to.
For kids to do better in math, their teachers might have to go back to school. Elementary-school teachers are poorly prepared by education schools to teach math, finds a study being released Thursday by the National Council on Teacher Quality.
Boys outperform girls on a math test given to children worldwide, but the gender gap is less pronounced in countries where women and men have similar rights and opportunities, according to a study published Thursday.
Barack Obama's wave of superdelegate endorsements puts him within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination by the end of the primary season on June 3 — even if he loses half of the remaining six contests.
A mathematical puzzle that baffled the top minds in the esoteric field of symbolic dynamics for nearly four decades has been cracked — by a 63-year-old immigrant who once had to work as a security guard.
What the National Mathematics Advisory Panel says students should know and when:
Schools could improve students' sluggish math scores by hammering home the basics, such as addition and multiplication, and increasing the focus on fractions and some geometry, a presidential panel recommended Thursday.
U.S. students are lagging behind their peers in other countries in science and math, test results out Tuesday show.
Early momentum has been the surefire way to win modern presidential primaries: Emerge as the front-runner in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina, then steamroll through later states to become the nominee. Most of the Republican candidates are betting on this approach for 2008, but Rudy Giuliani is counting on something simpler: delegate math.
Republicans in California's heavily Democratic 35th Congressional District are a lonely lot, represented in the House by one of the nation's most liberal members, Maxine Waters.
An international team of mathematicians says it has cracked a 120-year-old puzzle that researchers say is so complicated that its handwritten solution would cover the island of Manhattan.
Large percentages of high school seniors are posting weak scores on national math and reading tests even though more of them are taking challenging courses and getting higher grades in school, say two new government reports released Thursday.
Telling women they can't do well in math may turn out be a self-fulfilling statement. In tests in Canada, women who were told that men and women do math equally well did much better than those who were told there is a genetic difference in math ability.
A reclusive Russian won the math world's highest honor Tuesday for solving a problem that has stumped some of the discipline's greatest minds for a century — but he refused the award.
Obama: "This country wasn't built on greed." The President Shows His Excellent Grasp of the Issues[video]Take a look at his video. The President details not only the nuts and bolts of his math and science initiative, but profoundly underscores the larger purpose and its importance. Then come back here and try to argue that he isn't right and he doesn't know what he is talking about.
He has led me home to him. He loved me freely, enriching my heart with his grace. My soul will sing with joy for all eternity now. To follow his path insures my sojourn among obstacles set to daunt my commitment. He redeemed my surety taking away my blemishes with sacrifi …
Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot FractalThe original Mandelbrot is an amazing object that has captured the public's imagination for 30 years with its cascading patterns and hypnotically colourful detail.
Probably guilty: Bad mathematics means rough justice "Statistical errors happen astonishingly often," says Ray Hill, a mathematician at the University of Salford, UK, who has given evidence in several high-profile criminal cases. "I'm always finding examples that go unnoticed in evidence statements."
Well My little one has been in school for exactly 7 days and we have the first parent-teacher conference, it was a general information meeting with the kinder-garden teacher. There were about 20 parents and Mrs. Bautista, Madison's (my daughter) teacher.
Bouje Publishing was awarded the 2009 Emerging Program Award which recognizes an employee volunteer program that is less than 2 years old and has achieved significant results.
More Animals Seem to Have Some Ability to CountA variety of animals have now been shown to have the ability to count, including chimpanzees, who in studies, sometimes outperform college students.
Cells go fractalMathematical patterns rule the behaviour of molecules in the nucleus.
U.S. students behind in math, science, analysis saysIn math, U.S. high schoolers were in the bottom quarter of the countries that participated, trailing countries including Finland, China and Estonia.
How to use math to choose a wife"Mathematicians have racked their brains and abacuses, for the good of society, in order to help us all choose wisely the person who shares our king-size.
A Mathematical Model for Surviving the Zombie ApocalypseIn a paper published in Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress, a team of mathematicians from Carleton University and the University of Ottawa have created a series of mathematical models to explore the effects of a zombie outbreak and determine the best course for human …
The Chevy Volt Gets 230 mpg? Only if you use bad mathChevy has announced that for city driving, the Volt will get gas mileage of 230 miles per gallon. That's nonsense. Pure, utter rubbish.
Formula Found to Explain Earth's Evenly Spaced Valleys | LiveScienceA math formula has been formulated to explain the even spacing of valleys.
"Sixty Symbols" Makes Physics and Astronomy Accessible, FunSixty Symbols, a series of short video primers on all those symbols that comprise the formulae that even the most seasoned researchers forget. More Articles
Box clever: Singapore's magic formula for maths success It sounds crazy but Singapore has shot up the league tables by dropping traditional methods from its maths lessons and getting children to be creative.
Can Mathematicians Spot The Winning Team Better Than Sports Commentators?Good breakdown on how commentators will often argue the importance of scoring the first goal and often suggest that a team improves its chances of winning considerably by scoring it.
Information and advice for mainstream teachers of ESL studentsThis is an excellent resource for mainstream teachers of ESL students.
Given a chance, girls are boys' equals in math at all levels, study saysGirls can do just as well at math as boys --even at the genius level -- if they are given the same opportunities and encouragement, researchers report.
Swedish teen cracks centuries-old numbers puzzle A 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant living in central Sweden has discovered a formula that has stumped mathematicians for 300 hundred years, earning the teenager an early invitation to study at prestigious Uppsala University.
Why Girls Don't Like MathBlog post about and linking to a TVO program about girls and math: The most recent EQAO scores from the Education Quality Accountability Office in Ontario show that girls and boys in Grades 3 and 6 achieve at the same levels in math.
Pasco 8-year old on math: 'I like doing this' - St. Petersburg TimesBetsy Valentine's portable classroom at Chasco Elementary buzzes with the chatter of third-graders talking math.
Why Do Computers Suck at Math?Insert your own joke here. Google can't be wrong -- math is! But Google is hardly alone; this is just another example in a long and storied history of obscure little computer math errors that go way back, such as this bug report from Windows 3.0.
In our galaxy there are over 700,000,000,000 stars, each capable of creating conditions suitable for the evolution of intelligent life. And our galaxy is over 13,000,000,000 years old.
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