mathematics

Secret meaning behind 'Google's name leaves internet users shocked

The title's etymology has come to light via a💧 resurfaced post on the forum platform Quora, in which a user inquired: “Is Google an acronym?"

Almost 200K students boycotted NY state standardized tests in parents' rights revolt

🎃 Thousands of parents are staging a revolt against the state by refusing to have their kids take the standardized English and math exams, test data reviewed by The Post reveal.

Pittsburgh public schools approve measure to instruct teachers on ‘White supremacy’ in math classes ✱

The Pittsburgh Public Schools Board has voted to hire a consulting group that educates teachers on how to replace "White supremacy cul🌠ture practices" in math instruction with methods that c💜enter on the...

Math and computer scienc🦹e teachers are embracing chatbots in the classroom

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alph🗹a — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete.

There's a math formula for when kids will have tantrums on an airplane — here's how to prevent them

꧂It's t🍸he cry-baby formula — devised by UK mathematician Dr. Tom Crawford.  

Students being placed🦹 into advanced math classes based off standardized test scores, not grades

🐷 A new Texas law calls for every student who performs in the top 40% on a fifth-grade math assessment to be enrolled automatically in advanced math for sixth grade.

🧸You can win $1 mi⛦llion if you solve this famous problem

An institution has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can solve a famous maths prob𓃲lem that has puzzled mathematicians for more than a century.

Progressives' war on teaching math conquers California

As progres𓆏sives want to do everywhere, California is destroying math education in the name of “equity.”

‘Conspiracy Theꦫory,’ Chuck, woke Navy’s recruitment woes and other commentary

Libertarian: ‘Conspiracy Theory,’ Chuck? Bare month💞s after Sen. Chuck Schumer “assured everyone that government gas-grabbing was a MAGA conspiracy theory,” and “mainstream media fact-checkers said much the same,” snarks Reason’s...

Gay porn star turned professor sacked fro🍸m university sues school - and wins

𒀰 A porn star turned professor has won an unfair dismissal case against a univeꦯrsity that sacked him because it allegedly became squeamish about his previous career.

I graduated at 76 — 52 years after🅷 starti🐟ng my PhD

“Some problems are so great it takes the bestಞ part of a lifetime to get your head around them," Nick Axten explained.  ♏

 Boy, 11, does bett𒐪er on Mensa IQ test than Einstein, Hawking🐻

Eleven-year-old B🐼rit Yusuf Shah, of Leeds, earned the highest possible score of 162.

Parents demand NYC middle school bring back honor💯s math classes

Honors math programs have been nearly cut at a number of middle schools in NYC, but Robert Wagner Mᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚiddle School on the Upper East Side has said it'🌺s getting rid...

Letters to🌄 the Editor — Juജne 13, 2021

Fix mas⭕k hysteriaKarol Markowicz succinctly captures the irrationality that has large numbers of people who are vaccinated against COVID still behave as though they are in mortal danger of contracting... 🔯 

Space stat💞ion launch honors ‘Hidden Figures’ mathematician

ꦯ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A space station supply ship named after the Black NASA mathematician featured in the movie “Hidden Figures” rocketed into orbit Saturday, the 59th anniversary of John... 

Adding wokeness: Oregon promotes teacher program to subtract 'racism in mathematics'

The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to re🙈gist🤡er for training that encourages "ethnomathematics" and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on...

All the COVID-19 particles in the world could fit in a Coke ♒can, scientist says

 All of the COVID-19 virus particles spreading death and misery around th🃏e world would fit into a single Coke can, according to a Britishꦰ mathematician. Bath University numbers-crunching expert Kit...

Humanity faces rapid 'catastrophic collapse,' study warns

The♍y say their analysis may also help explain why humans haven't made contact with other intelligent lif🉐e forms.

NASA's 'Hidden Figures' mathematician dead at 101

꧟ In 2015, then-Presidentဣ Barack Obama awarded Johnson a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Robert Patti🍷nson is💫 the hottest man in the world, according to math

British actor Robert Pattinson has been dubbed the most hand♕some man on Earth by mathe🍬matical researchers. They claim the 33-year-old "Twilight" hunk was blessed with the most "accurate" features per...