Math
2 high school seniors had proved a mathematical puzzle that was thought to be impossible for two thousand years. CBS News 60 Minutes, met Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson at their all-girls Catholic high school in New Orleans. And, as we first reported last year, we expected to find two mathematical prodigies. Instead, we found at St. […]
Nearly five years after COVID-19 disrupted education, the Nation’s Report Card provides a mixed outlook on student achievement. Math scores show modest recovery, with fourth-graders making slight gains since 2022, though still below pre-pandemic levels. Alabama was the only state where fourth-graders outperformed 2019 scores. However, a troubling trend emerged in eighth-grade math, where higher-performing […]
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) released its 2023-2024 student performance report, covering statewide standardized tests for grades 3-8 and high school. Key findings include declines in proficiency across English, math, and science. Among grades 3-8, 46% of students were proficient in English language arts, 52% in math, and only 35% in science. English […]
Two young Black high school students, Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson from St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans, have achieved a groundbreaking mathematical feat by finding a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem—a task considered impossible for over 2,000 years. This theorem, fundamental in geometry, states that in a right triangle, the square of the […]
National educational assessment numbers are in they are not good, post Covid-19 pandemic. 4th and 8th graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math. The alarming findings are based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading and math exams, often called the “Nation’s Report Card”. The gaps between White students […]
Pharrell Williams plans to open a group of small nonprofit private schools in Virginia. The Grammy-winner said in a press release in which he called out the current state of affairs regarding the school system, according to The Virginian-Pilot. “We don’t want lockstep learning where so many kids fall behind; we want bespoke learning designed for […]
David Narváez, a doctoral student at RIT and his team of researchers have made mathematic history, solving a 90 year old math problem called Keller’s Conjecture. Narváez used his knowledge of information sciences, computing and symmetry-breaking to assist a group of computers solve the problem in 30 minutes. In addition, he brought techniques that made […]
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