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Math in the World Around Us 17 Aug 2013 | 12:22 am
The Dartmouth College Math Department and the Neukom Institute for Computational Science sponsored a video competition called “Math-O-Vision.” The winner and runners-up received cash prizes for their ...
Kindergarten Math Too Easy for Kids 2 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort, researchers at Vanderbilt University discovered that kindergarten students are not being challenged enough in math. Teachers...
Measuring Happiness Using Math 19 Jul 2013 | 09:24 pm
A study from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Vermont uses a math pattern analysis to analyze whether Twitter users are happier farther away from home. Researchers sou...
Math Movies 5 Jul 2013 | 09:15 pm
What better way to get excited about math than with a fun movie? Movies can help display the many real-world applications of mathematics, from sports to art. Click here to check out a list of great fi...
Museum of Mathematics 21 Jun 2013 | 11:57 pm
The only one of its kind in North America, the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath, for short) opened last December in New York City. MoMath is designed to spark the public’s interest in mathematic...
“Childhood Math and Reading Skills Really Do Matter” 4 Jun 2013 | 12:11 am
Researchers Stuart Ritchie and Timothy Bates of the University of Edinburgh have linked childhood math and reading skills to social status in adulthood. Students with higher math and reading abilities...
Using Math to Predict Patient Response 23 May 2013 | 11:16 pm
Dr. Cary Oberije, a postdoctoral researcher in The Netherlands, has found that mathematical models can be used to accurately predict patients’ responses to treatment. Prediction models were used to an...
Monkeying Around 23 May 2013 | 11:15 pm
A University of Rochester study shows that baboons are able to understand numbers. Experimenters showed the monkeys peanut-filled cups and the monkeys then chose which cup contained more peanuts. Read...
A Mathematician’s Major League Baseball Projections 23 May 2013 | 08:17 pm
Mathematician Bruce Bukiet of the New Jersey Institute of Technology has once a gain predicted a champion for the 2013 Major League Baseball season. Bukiet provides a mathematical analysis to compute ...
Space Exploration Using Math 8 Apr 2013 | 10:11 pm
Software Engineers at SpaceX recently participated in a crowd-sourced interview on Reddit. One person asked, “What experience/schooling does one need to get a job with SpaceX?” SpaceX responded (in su...
