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A Quick Refresher on the High-School Math You’ve Forgotten. And Other news

A Quick Refresher on the High-School Math You’ve Forgotten | The New Yorker The New Yorker
Adam Douglas Thompson jokes about the utility of math that you learned in high school but might not ever use again in life.
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Rural Chinese student sparks awe and suspicion after beating math elites in global contest
CNN
A fashion major from a vocational high school in rural China has amazed the nation by outshining elite students in a global math contest – but the …
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Mathematicians Are Edging Close to Solving One of the World’s 7 Hardest Math Problems
Popular Mechanics
Huge breakthroughs in math and science are usually the work of many people over many years. Seven math problems were given a $1 million bounty each in …
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Curricula From Bill Gates-Backed ‘Illustrative Math’ Required In NYC High Schools – Slashdot
Slashdot
New York City announced a “major citywide initiative” to increase “math achievement” among students, according to the mayor’s office.
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College-bound prodigy, 12, aims to demystify math and science – ABC7 New York
ABC7 New York
Suborno graduates on June 26th. He’s heading to NYU on a full scholarship to study his love of math and physics. He’s expected to earn his Bachelor’s …
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New Math just didn’t compute in schoolboy’s mind | News | starbeacon.com Star Beacon
… Math, a complex system that was supposed to make us smart enough to catch the Russians and win the Cold War. Under New Math, two plus two still …
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Cornell startup offers AI-powered math help
Cornell Chronicle – Cornell University
Nour Gajial ’26, left, and Yanni Kouloumbis ’26, founded MathGPT to help high school and college students struggling with math understand how to …
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How The ‘Lady Gaga Of Math’ Is Thinking Differently About Math Education – Forbes
Forbes
Vanessa Vakharia explains how new ideas have the potential to power real progress for students and a new mindset around math overall.
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Shaping the next generation of problem solvers: Math Circles marks 10 years – Dal News
Dalhousie University
Eastlink’s unwavering support for Nova Scotia Math Circles since its launch a decade ago by Dalhousie’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics …
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Colorado high school students had big drops in math scores. Is the new digital SAT to blame?
Colorado Public Radio
In 2019, 49.6% of ninth graders met or exceeded math standards on the PSAT. In 2024, just 39.5% did — a difference of more than 10 percentage …
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MSC-2020 – h t t p s : / / m a t h s c i n e t . a m s . o r g – American Mathematical Society

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SAT Math Battle! HARD Questions on College Board’s Question Bank – YouTube Join Laura Whitmore from STP and Huzefa from Scalar Learning in an epic Math Battle! They each picked 5 of the hardest SAT questions to challenge …
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Transfer or Exam Credit | The Department of Mathematics – Arizona Math For entry into MATH courses at or below the level of calculus I (Math 122B/125), your transfer prerequisite must be less than 2 years old. For courses …
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Math Machine Learning Seminar – UCLA Mathematics

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Oxford University Mathematician REACTS to “Animation vs. Geometry” – YouTube
… Math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J6Ou4q8vE Animation vs … Mathematician REACTS To ‘Animation Vs Math’ | (Math Explained). The …
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SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX)
Applications include such areas as signal processing, systems and control theory, statistics, Markov chains, mathematical biology, graph theory, and …
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Math preparation | Engineering – University of Waterloo
MTHEL 99 First-Year Mathematics Readiness. MTHEL 99 is an online, skills-based course designed to help you refresh your knowledge of high school …
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Math Portal

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Indra’s Pearls – Klein’s Web Pages

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