Man Who Won Lottery 14 Times Reveals Simple Math He Used To Beat The System
Stefan Mandel said his method could be understood by 'any high school boy or girl'
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Boy Struggling at School is Now a Math Genius After His Mom Taught Him to Use An ABACUS-May Help Today's Kids
Dhruv has now landed an apprenticeship at international beverage firm Diageo and said he reckons his teachers would be shocked.
High School Math Teacher Named 2023 Teacher of the Year For Her 'One Good Thing' Classroom Ritual
Rebecka Peterson can add '2023 Teacher of the Year' to her ongoing classroom ritual of naming one good thing that happened each day.
Mathematicians Discover Elusive 'Einstein' Shape: 'The Miracle that Disrupts Order'
Is there a shape that could interlock with itself ad infinitum without ever replicating a pattern? Turns out, there is.
Teens Say They Have New Proof for 2,000-Year-Old Mathematical Theorem, a Method Scholars Thought Impossible
The two ladies were interviewed on WWL New Orleans, and said it was an "unparalleled feeling" to present their findings to the ASM.
Children Do Much Better in Math When Music is Added to the Lesson: New Study
A new study explored the causal role that music engagement has on student achievement in mathematics—and they found a significant benefit.
Nature's Famous Spiral is Coded into 400 Million Years of Plants-But Not in This New Fossil
The Early Devonian Period produced a plant known as the clubmoss, which arranged its leaves in a spiral, but outside the Fibonacci Sequence.
Young Cashier Offers Free Food and Goodies to New York City Customers Who Solve Simple Math Problems
If you can solve Ahmed Alwan's simple math problem at the counter of Lucky Candy, you have 5 seconds to grab whatever you want from the store for free.
Welsh Teacher Hailed as 'Math Whisperer' After All His Students Got an A+ on Tricky Exam
Welsh high school teacher Francis Elive was named the "Maths Whisperer" after all 30 of his pupils got an A+ on a tough school exam.
A+ is Overrated: New Study Says There is an Optimal Amount of Failure to Learn More Efficiently
Researchers from the University of Arizona have found that people learn more efficiently if they maintain a certain ratio of failure.
The Mind-Blowing Mathematics of Sunflowers …From Scientific American Magazine on Their 175th Birthday
On their 175th birthday, the oldest regularly published magazine in America, Scientific American, explains Fibonacci sequences in sunflowers.
NASA Finally Unlocks Mystery of Aurora 'Pearl Necklaces' and How They Form On Earth And Elsewhere
With newly advanced computing power, NASA has unlocked some answers around the phenomenon of space auroras and how they form.
New Mathematical Formula Unveiled to Prevent AI From Making Unethical Decisions
Researchers from UK and Switzerland have developed a mathematical formula to help prevent Artificial Intelligence from making unethical decisions.
How Online Gamers Are Solving Science's Biggest Problems
A new generation of online games don't just provide entertainment – they help scientists solve puzzles involving genes, conservation and the universe. Such games have allowed players with little or no scientific knowledge tackle some of science's biggest problems. And gamers are already proving their worth.
Growing Up Surrounded by Books Could Have Powerful, Lasting Effect on the Mind
This new study shows that teens who grew up around books had a lot of the same mental capabilities as university students who weren't exposed to books.
The Mind-Blowing Mathematics of Snowflakes
The beautiful symmetry and mathematics of snowflakes is a great compliment to the beauty they create all around us in winter.
How an Oyster Can Form a Perfectly Symmetrical Pearl - Better Than We Humans, With All Our Technology
University of Michigan research has figured out how an oyster can form an entirely symmetrical pearl, and the findings could have practical use.
2-Year-old Girl With a Genius IQ is the Youngest American to Become Member of Mensa
Could you recognize all 50 U.S. states just by looking at the outline of their shapes? How about naming rapid-fire every element on the periodic table from glancing at the symbols? Californian Kashe Quest can do all those things—plus a whole lot more—and she's only 2 years old. To top that off, with a lofty […]
11-Year-old Girl With Autism Earns Guinness World Record for Mental Math Skills
11-year-old Sanaa Hiremath, who lives in Florida, has earned a Guinness World Record for her mind-bending mental mathematics skills.
CodeNow Teaches City Kids Coding, Sparking Lifelong Interest
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs changed the way we live. All had one thing in common: Access to technology at an early age. A DC-based nonprofit called CodeNow is teaching underrepresented youth the fundamental skills of computer programming. While taking free courses, the city kids -- almost 40% are girls -- build robots, Twitter apps, and a better future.
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