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Solution: ‘A Drunkard’s Walk in Manhattan’
...is the same process that underlies diffusion: the rate at which the sugar or sweetener spreads into your morning tea or coffee. The funny math book that I referred to...
The Strange Second Life of String Theory
...it’s become almost unrecognizable, even to string theorists. “Things have gotten almost postmodern,” said Dijkgraaf, who is a painter as well as mathematical physicist. The mathematics that have come out...
Using Mathematics to Repair a Masterpiece
...mathematical problems that have already led us far beyond a simple application of off-the-shelf tools. We have not yet had to build new mathematical theory, but I expect it is...
Meet the New Math, Unlike the Old Math
...on what counts in each discipline, instruction in science and math is remarkably resistant to change. That said, we’re riding the next big wave in K-12 science and math education...
All Is Not Fair in Cake-Cutting and Math
...they want to strive for — and that’s something mathematics can’t decide for them. When children divide an inheritance, should the Chagall painting go to the child who’s an art...
Pencils Down: The Art of Teaching Math and Science
...this linchpin of our education system, Quanta Magazine followed four master science and math teachers into their classrooms. Wilson Hester, Max Cantor, Rachel Globe and Lisa Iaboni for Quanta Magazine...
The Art of Teaching Math and Science
...when it comes to math and science literacy. No test is perfect, but according to the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, 15-year-old Americans ranked 27th in math and 20th...
Science Evolves. Will Science Education?
...New Math, Unlike the Old Math,” about new math and science standards working their way into America’s schools, and writing about Channa Comer, one of four extraordinary teachers profiled in...
How Can We Tell Which Forecasts Are True?
...enthusiast. We are all familiar with innumeracy — the lack of a basic knowledge of mathematics. A significant proportion of the population is effectively mathematically illiterate and can easily be...