Maths village is open all year around, and aside from running intensive maths camps during school and university holidays, it also hosts maths-related conferences and is open to the odd wedding.
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He went on to cultivate the notion of mashing maths with fun by founding maths village soon afterwards.
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So a student who has not studied the maths-heavy bac 'S' (for "scientific") can nonetheless enroll for a maths degree.
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Yes, we dropped from 18th to 03th in Year 4 maths and from 12th to 17th for Year 8 maths since 2011.
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Nesin—the son of famous Turkish author Aziz Nesin—who has a PhD in maths from Yale University and who founded the maths department at Bilgi University in Istanbul in 1995, wanted to nurture a superstar roster of maths students.
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So youngsters with only rudimentary maths may sign up for a maths degree and those who have little acquaintance with the past can read history.
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In 2014, 81 of the 268 students allocated to the maths and computing course at Descartes did not have the bac "S", the maths-heavy version of the school-leaving exam.
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They are renowned for their pedagogical prowess, especially in maths.
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Many Venezuelans regarded the exercise as a baffling maths test.
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A tribal elder spelled out the maths of the situation.
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He entitled an online lecture 'Why is maths so sexy'.
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More generally though I was nervous about my mental maths.
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"Importantly—and surprisingly—this new research suggests that the majority of students experiencing maths anxiety have normal to high maths ability," Josh Hillman, Director of Education at the Nuffield Foundation, said in a press release.
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For some people it's easier to explore maths when it's visualized.
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So just do the maths .... We're heading for about four (degrees).
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Get My Grades: online learning platform for English, Maths and Science
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Thursday morning was time for one of the big ones: maths.
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Breitbart has done the grim maths so you don't have to.
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The first answered 25 maths questions that had appeared in PISA.
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In two tries, AI-Maths scored 105 and 100 points, respectively.
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But at least the maths can be kept nice and simple.
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But the maths is brutal, and not in Mr Sanders's favour.
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Tara: A girl who was in my history and maths class.
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Today, graduate economists undergo "maths camp" before being bombarded with lectures.
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Such "rigid origami" needs new maths; it also offers new abilities.
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Since starting maths camp, Nesin founded an arts and philosophy camp.
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Very well paid, but quite dull… You can go and be an actuary in the City and earn a fortune and use maths, but it won't be quite the same as using maths where we are.
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"Rigid origami" needs new maths; it also offers new abilities As a result the mathematics of origami has moved beyond early efforts to show how much higher maths could be recapitulated in folds (answer: a surprising amount).
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For those unconvinced by fancy maths, the basic statistics also look worrying.
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John Roberts, the chief justice, hoarily dismissed this maths as "sociological gobbledygook".
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The app delivers engaging maths story problems for parents and their children.
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Maths was needed to formalise most of the ideas in our briefs.
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In maths classes pupils' workbooks have no entries for the past fortnight.
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"I wish you'd been good at maths instead of English," Kate said.
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Part of that is because of the brutal maths of vote-getting.
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Children were asked to add up bombs or bullets in maths exercises.
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Girls in some countries are now better at maths than boys, for example.
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For that reason, I am going to, bafflingly, attempt a ton of maths.
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Except at this school, the 14 year old doesn't practice English or maths.
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Bashneft's fate had as much to do with politics as with budget maths.
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I am rational, good at maths and have other traits traditionally considered male.
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Inequity is stark: white pupils hugely outperform black ones in reading and maths.
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Until the joy of maths claimed her, she wanted to be a novelist.
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Today Webster lies near the bottom of state rankings in reading and maths.
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Students in Philadelphia's charters do better in reading exams, but not in maths.
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Mr Hughes was born to a travelling paper salesman and a maths teacher.
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This stemmed not from new signals or whizzier interfaces but from better maths.
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The maths that underlie post-quantum schemes have not been similarly battle-tested.
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Singaporean pupils are roughly three years ahead of their American peers in maths.
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The average person at my school didn't even get GCSE maths and English.
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Encouraging more students to sign up for maths-related degrees may be hard.
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While the maths of folding raised its ambitions, so did the craft side.
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The impact was particularly strong for children whose parents were anxious about maths.
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We did the maths and that is a huge total saving of £215.
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Used responsibly, maths lends useful structure to economists' thinking, and weeds out sloppiness.
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Ollennu says he does not believe that any child does not understand maths.
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We did the maths and that's a saving of 70% on list price.
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I am a maths teacher in Nottingham UK. Wrote this 10 years ago.
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Thing is, maths is immune to nerding harder — howsoever many people claim it's not.
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It sounds complicated, and working through the maths is not for the faint-hearted.
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New York city's public schools lose 9% of maths and science teachers each year.
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An emeritus professor of maths at King's provides extension classes for the very brightest.
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ALBERT AGISHA NTWALI was resigned to becoming a maths teacher at a secondary school.
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Singaporean pupils are roughly three years ahead of American ones in maths (see article).
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Surely that's an idea that both Bernard and the maligned "maths mob" can endorse.
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Between 2003 and 2012, performance in international maths tests fell compared with other countries.
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The trouble Independent candidates have finding voters is worse than the maths above suggests.
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He says the Racine area is exceptionally short of engineering, computing or maths skills.
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To receive the overture, pupils must ace tests in maths, English and "general ability".
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Bacardi Breezers, cool kids with the Marlboro Lights behind the maths block, the Kardashians.
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I'm not working at the moment—I'm back at college studying maths and English.
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Maths grad who previously co-founded content-led ecommerce site Llustre (acquired by Fab.com).
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But becoming a quant is hard: a PhD in maths or physics usually helps.
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He'd drifted through Cambridge doing something scientific—engineering or maths, I think it was.
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Upon graduation, she moved to the US where she studied Maths, Economics, and Statistics.
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While technology can easily handle the maths, people may also need the human touch.
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In 2006-09 the university was 66th in the maths-and-computing-research league table.
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For decades relatively few women have participated in STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and maths.
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All 11-year-olds spend exactly four-and-a-half hours on maths a week.
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A measure to test college readiness for maths in 2018 revealed that 60% had failed.
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For those with maths or science degrees, this figure rises to $1.5 million on average.
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We've done the annoying maths so you can save some money for your morning coffee.
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In recent elections partisan fissures have been reinforced by the brutal maths of voter turnout.
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Vietnamese 15-year-olds do as well in maths and sciences as their German peers.
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"They need to work the maths out and get their papers peer-tested," he said.
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Could it be time for a reappraisal of Maths + English and the standard it set?
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If someone doesn't believe their rank in maths class, you can show them their rank.
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The next thing we heard, he was teaching maths in the valley, at St. Peter.
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Real maths requires a necessary rigidity, at least at the level most of us study it to, but World Cup maths is fluid to the end, a living thing whose outcomes are often changing in real time as more salient facts come to light.
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There is a shortage of maths and science teachers, but a surfeit of physical-education instructors.
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Because there are only two candidates to choose from, we can discard the vote-trading maths.
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It hopes to open new maths schools across the country as part of its "industrial strategy".
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Schools stuff young heads with religion, but neglect more practical subjects such as maths and science.
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Pupils attend maths lessons based on Singapore's curriculum; literacy classes draw on how England teaches phonics.
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At the age of eight or nine all children are assessed in maths, English and reasoning.
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One reason may be that maths talent and female fertility flower in the same crucial years.
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Proficiency in reading and maths lags about 30 percentage points behind the rest of the state.
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He then slipped back into work as a maths professor, teaching his last class in 2001.
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It boasts excellent research in maths and has a number of outstanding business and engineering schools.
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But, though Mr Harris enjoyed solving maths puzzles, he also wanted to help the less fortunate.
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Portsmouth, which tops our rankings, provides remedial maths and literacy catch-ups for those needing them.
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Yet, on average, American teenagers trail their peers (see chart), especially maths whizzes from East Asia.
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University graduates in maths and computer science fell to 303,600 in 2008 from 3,000 in 2005.
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As a result, Brazilian students achieved the largest gain on PISA maths tests in 2003-2012.
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A recent study by David Reynolds compared maths teaching in Nanjing and Southampton, where he works.
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Students will need good school-leaving qualifications, but not need to have studied maths or physics.
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TO HER CREDIT, Elizabeth Warren is the kind of politician who likes to show her maths.
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Thousands began mining: the process of producing bitcoins by solving maths problems with high-powered computers.
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It would be so much more expensive that we haven't even bothered to do the maths.
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Since opening, maths village has welcomed thousands of students of all ages and walks of life.
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When I went inside, I didn't have maths or English qualifications, and now I've got both.
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She has a Master's degree in physics and maths and is also an acrobatic rock'n'roll dancer.
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I'm going to attempt some rudimentary math (aka "maths" if you're nasty and/or actually Australian).
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"This is about the maths in our parliamentary party and indeed in parliament itself," Hinds said.
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Most explanations of Brexit don't involve a lot of math (or maths, as the British say).
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It promises to guide governments with cold-hearted maths, no matter how unsettling the results might be.
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Maybe you were one of the weird kids who actually enjoyed double maths on a Friday afternoon.
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Although I was allowed back for English, maths, and science at the same school, that was it.
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It is a similar story at Shift Technology, a Paris-based firm founded by three maths graduates.
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And a third, Sergio Fajardo, a maths professor who was once mayor of Medellín, also seems interested.
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At home, his favourite way to relax is to devise maths exam papers complete with marking sheets.
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"I do like her, and she has given me harder work," he says of his maths teacher.
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DoodleMaths – DoodleMaths is a tablet-based, adaptive and intuitive maths learning programme for 4-14-year-olds.
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Federal testing data suggest maths proficiency among fourth- and eighth-graders is dipping after years of improvement.
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The reason for this is electoral maths: pro-Corbyn MPs are overwhelmingly concentrated in the safest seats.
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They're popular with maths teachers as a way to structure observations, like coin flips or dice rolls.
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You don't need to do the maths to know that therefore takes us across the Brexit period.
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He said he had been bad at maths, and finance wasn't his first choice of college major.
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This included chemistry lessons on bombmaking and maths classes devoted to tallying up weapons caches, they said.
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DoodleMaths – DoodleMaths is a tablet-based, adaptive and intuitive maths learning programme for students ages 4-14.
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In recent years, Romer has gained more headlines for his sharp tongue than for his sophisticated maths.
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Trainees learn food hygiene, get help with English, maths, IT and interview skills, receive mentoring and job placements.
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To save you the maths, Williams earned a mere $73,000, compared to Wahlberg's $1.5 million for the reshoots.
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TEACHERS for maths, science and for special and bilingual education have long been hard to find and keep.
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It provides 20% of the city's public school maths teachers and are in half of its high schools.
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"I am going to university for joint honours in music and maths," he told Paste Magazine in August.
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The maths they need to know and apply is sufficiently taxing as to barely leave time for history.
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The whimsical nature of World Cup maths means it is never faulty; the customer (you) is always right.
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Until recently the high school in Carnarvon, a nearby town, didn't even have a maths and science teacher.
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First, gifted children begin to master a particular discipline – a language, maths or chess – much younger than most.
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In a recent video, Zemdegs described the record-breaking solve to Matt Parker, a "maths communicator" and comedian.
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Meanwhile in 228% of high schools not a single pupil meets a commonly accepted international standard for maths.
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But pupils in Telugu-speaking private schools did considerably better in maths than those in English-medium schools.
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Schools will get an extra £600 ($800) a year for each additional pupil who studies advanced-level maths.
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Conventional wisdom, simple maths and plenty of recent evidence shows reduced global trade leads to reduced economic activity.
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We looked over some maths regarding its prior valuation, its recent revenue, and a current public-market comp.
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There's some maths in here which is really important if you're going to have a profitable online business.
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He no longer received the social coaching that he used to have along with maths and English classes.
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In global rankings, 15-year-olds in Vietnam beat those in America and Britain in maths and science.
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TO THE 11- and 12-year-olds in his maths class, Jimmy Cavanagh seems like a born teacher.
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Wachter said she was not naturally gifted at maths as a child, but her grandmother's verve was infectious.
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The result was an uptick in performance in maths and (more weakly) English, as well as lower absenteeism.
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In many, not even one-tenth of pupils reach levels of reading or maths expected for their age.
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Noodle, the Gorillaz' guitarist, is Jaguar's STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) and Formula E race team ambassador.
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Nor can an aversion to numbers explain the problem: economics is even less popular among girls than maths.
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Miners create new bitcoins by solving complex maths problems whose solutions are used to validate new bitcoin transactions.
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But article two allows for the teaching of science, maths and technical subjects in French (and other languages).
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For the onebillion trial, children were taken out of their huge classes, put in groups of 1433 and given tablets loaded with maths software; similar-sized groups were given tablets without the maths software, to control for the possibility that children might benefit from any instruction given in smaller groups.
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Release #80 was coming up, which meant maths required another episode of "World War 2020" [to] fill that slot.
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Test scores for reading and maths in four-fifths of the state's charter schools are below the state average.
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Unemployment, a concept previously alien to newly minted American maths graduates, shot up that year to an unprecedented 12%.
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Michael Gove, Britain's education secretary from 2010 to 0.73, imported the idea, pushing universities to start specialist maths colleges.
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KCLMS is hyper-selective: pupils normally need an A* grade in maths at GCSE, the exams taken aged 16.
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In 2016 all pupils gained an A or A* grade in their maths A-level exam, taken at 18.
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Students are customers for offline versions of Wikipedia and apps that specialise in biology, maths and other academic subjects.
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She never inspected their rooms, she said, and they grew up fine, all with PhDs in science or maths.
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Its average score in maths has fallen from 524 to 494 since 2003, equivalent to a year of schooling.
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Massachusetts is top—and is the only state with maths results near those of high-performing East Asian countries.
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AT A school in the township of West Point, Monrovia, a teacher should be halfway through her maths lesson.
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Schools were pushed to ensure girls left with equal maths skills to boys—and, crucially, equal confidence in them.
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Anja Lambrecht and Catherine Tucker, two economists, placed adverts promoting jobs in science, technology, engineering and maths on Facebook.
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They delivered gains in maths and reading almost equivalent to a full additional year of instruction, the researchers estimated.
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Pacioli and Leonardo collaborated on the treatise "Divina Proportione", which married maths with art through the study of perspective.
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Unfortunately, Latin American students don't learn enough: international tests show that many can't perform basic maths and language tasks.
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Ironically, even though it was written by a strong proponent of mathematics in economics, it is not maths-heavy.
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Nearly four in five maths teachers cannot do the sums expected of their 12- or 13-year-old pupils.
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More surprising was the finding that immigrants were generally more likely to bluff about maths than native students were.
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Gifted programmes from Singapore's to England's specialist maths schools make it a priority to help children pursue their passion.
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But he'd also set about working to improve the maths of the kin selection theory, making it "more transparent".
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"Sometimes I joke that Syrian children may help reverse [our decline in] PISA results in maths," quips Ms Hadzialic.
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In the maths test, more than 60% of the Brazilians would be among the bottom 10% in South Korea.
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In most developing countries ranked by PISA, more than half the students achieved only very basic competence in maths.
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Biologists (as are most of those who write and read the papers in PubMed Central) are notoriously maths-averse.
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Patel, who admits he is "terrible" at maths, said in an interview the role was both challenging and emotional.
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A dash of goodwill plus lots of private profit equals capitalism and good PR. It's basic and familiar maths.
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The English title is not confirmed yet but I think it will be something like "Mad men to maths men".
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We've known for a few years now how closely related we are, first theoretically using maths, then using genetic similarities.
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South Korean students score brilliantly on comparative measures such as the OECD's PISA test of maths, science and reading skills.
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Australia is one of the few rich countries where pupils do not have to take maths in their leaving exams.
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Then there is Estonia: its science results are indistinguishable from Japan's and its maths scores are akin to South Korea's.
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About two-thirds of pupils score as well as or better than demography would predict in a nationwide maths test.
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"The Economy" does not dumb down economics; it uses maths readily, keeping students engaged through the topicality of the material.
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Mr Dardel admires the coding school but argues that there is still a place for theoretical maths in computer science.
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In poor countries only a quarter of secondary schoolchildren acquire at least a basic knowledge of maths, reading and science.
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Ideally educated to degree level with some economics or maths, you will have experience working with information sources and statistics.
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The questions were for the subjects of modern languages (French), medicine, PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), maths and experimental psychology.
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She cheats on a maths test, shop lifts and pretends to live in the big, blue house of her dreams.
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Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, has noted that many pupils there study a narrow curriculum, with only basic English and maths.
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Officials often cite the SMPY as the inspiration for the creation in 22016 of two specialist maths schools in England.
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My maths teacher told us on the first day of class, if there are any gays here, get out now.
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"A lot of people see economics as to do with maths and the stock exchange," she told Reuters between shows.
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Sure, you'll make hardly anything on the one day, but why not lend your computer to solve maths problems, a.k.a.
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Most can do the maths and thus reassure themselves about the slim chance of getting mixed up in anything nasty.
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After the French lost patience and overthrew him, the dismembered remains of a maths teacher were found in his fridge.
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With the help of some fancy maths, the authors say that a similar argument can be applied to national finances.
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Tackling their own anxieties and belief systems in maths might be the first step to helping their children or students.
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Like the very best groundbreaking pop albums, underground sounds are brought to the fore on Maths + English without being butchered.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up about 11 percent of the population and many prioritize religious studies over science and maths.
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In America the ratio of boys to girls among children who are exceptionally talented at maths has plummeted since the 1970s.
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So AI isn't going anywhere and Europe's traditional strong suit in pure maths and research should help the AI revolution there.
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Others are paying maths and science teachers more, which is anathema to unions, who want to treat all teachers the same.
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And British schools desperately need more of them, particularly in sciences, maths and modern languages, in which Now Teach will concentrate.
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"The crisis has idled many young people," says Faustin-Archange Touadéra, a former maths professor who is now the country's president.
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AFTER half an hour of pencil-chewing Lizeka Rantsan's class lines up at her desk to hand in its maths tests.
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The Urban Institute, a think-tank, has analysed the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a nationwide test of maths and reading.
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He cited the example of a maths model which showed mass market demand peaks when an influencer trend is going down.
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Siyavula Practice, a South African product, is used by more than 32,000 pupils in 388 schools to teach maths and science.
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Today, when difficult maths can obscure economics for the uninitiated, economists would do well to keep the latter point in mind.
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America is a very big country, and 4 percent maths out to 10 and a half million people, give or take.
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California's students underperform Texas's in several areas, including maths and science, and its Hispanic and African-American students do worse, too.
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By that measure (an imperfect one, of course), Uber comes out at 5.5 times, while Didi maths out to 2.8 times.
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The hard maths underlying the technique involves mapping the rate of change across the entire scene using differentiation calculations, says Cytera.
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Instead, CENTURY's goal is to figure out where in maths the student may be struggling, and swoop in and help there.
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Naveen Gehlot, its boss, spends up to 12 hours a day drilling students in history, politics, economics, sociology, maths and English.
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To the chagrin of its Islamist prime minister, Morocco is reintroducing French as the language of tuition for science and maths.
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The result was an uptick in pupil performance in maths and (more weakly) English, as well as a reduction in absenteeism.
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These breakthroughs are adverts not just for the value of economics, but also for three other things: theory, maths and outsiders.
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Global organizations including the United Nations have spoken out about under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
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Global organizations including the United Nations have spoken out about under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
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Maths, according to Nesin, is seen favorably by families in Turkey who want their kids to have a secure economic future.
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Nesin is currently working on amalgamating three villages—one dedicated to maths, another to philosophy, and the last to the arts.
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The best way to understand this is to look at the various things Dizzee managed to pull off on Maths + English.
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Anand watches a kid trying to study maths by the street light one evening and lo, a Good Samaritan was born.
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The ambition is to improve average maths and science scores for students by around 15 percent over the next five years.
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But Turbiner said initiatives are also needed for a higher standard of maths at a younger age including training more teachers.
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Not only that, but if you apply supermarket maths to nights out, then back to back sets are a complete bargain.
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In the academic year 1991-92, 13% of new hires to American maths departments came from east Europe and the disintegrating USSR.
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Sure enough, South Korean students score brilliantly on comparative measures such as the OECD's PISA test of maths, science and reading skills.
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Jean-Luc, a high-school maths teacher, said he had never been to a political rally and was "intrigued" by Mr Macron.
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Rather, Republicans who were good at maths were more likely to conclude that banning guns was ineffective, whereas Democrats said the opposite.
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We send them to learn about maths, science and English," said one, who complained that Mr Moffat "is not respecting our ethos.
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"I always thought of physicists old people separate from technology, doing theory hard maths," said Patrick Abbott, one of the Langton boys.
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A 2014 UK government report found that just 17 percent of professors in STEM (science, tech, engineering, and maths) fields were women.
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However she is better known as a great populariser of maths and sciences through her public lectures and documentaries on the BBC.
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Based on the Kolmogorov School in Moscow, these schools accept only those pupils who excel in maths at exams at age 210.
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With 100m subscribers globally, Netflix uses different maths to justify investments, including whether a film works for a specific segment of customers.
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So the maths don turned to more chill methods: He organized a six-week summer camp for his students by the sea.
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Of all the stunts somehow pulled off on Maths + English, though, Lily Allen's hook on "Wanna Be" might be the biggest feat.
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These are children who are not achieving even basic skills in maths and reading, which the World Bank calls a "learning crisis".
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Inside the decorated bus around 50 girls and boys as young as five take lessons in maths, life skills, Arabic and religion.
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His first glimpse of the international power of TV came during his time as a maths teacher in Swaziland 30 years ago.
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By adjusting the curriculum to a level pupils understand, Pratham's high-intensity "learning camps" help teach basic Hindi and maths in 40 days.
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Now Tsinghua is a major source of Chinese pride as it contends for accolades for research in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
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Derese, who lives in the Illu Aba Bora district, in Ethiopia's southwest, sat for papers in English, Maths and Amharic, Ethiopia's official language.
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I don't want to go into a bunch of maths regarding the cross product, so instead I will just show it to you.
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"There was a guy with 200 fans, charging each of them $10 a month, and I did the maths…" he says now, grinning.
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The boy is like, 'Let's see if I can fuck the gym teacher, let's see if I can fuck the hot maths teacher.
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On average its pupils scored 475 in science (up 51 points), 475 in reading (46 points) and 456 points (19903 points) in maths.
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It has been pushed aside by a focus on preparing workers for the marketplace with "core" subjects, especially science, technology, engineering and maths.
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A study published in 2015 found that, in Britain, differences in maths qualifications explained only a sixth of the gender gap in applications.
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At the high school in Simmern, for example, teachers decided to add maths and vocational training to the compulsory language lessons for migrants.
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For children aged between three and five, it's entirely possible that a well-designed app can help improve vocabulary and basic maths skills.
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I had a maths assignment given to me and it looks impossible but I'll give it a good go, and do my best.
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In terms of the actual learning content, it has been designed as a replacement for worksheets and is mapped to popular maths curriculums.
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By contrast, cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are produced by solving complex maths puzzles, and governed by disparate online communities instead of a centralized body.
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By contrast, cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are produced by solving complex maths puzzles, and governed by disparate online communities instead of a centralized body.
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But even firms that do find trainees are not always happy, telling the DIHK that many lack motivation or German and maths skills.
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These people often have a computer science background but many of them have also studied subjects like data science, neuroscience, maths, and physics.
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In encryption, for example, a quantum machine could quickly untangle the complex maths that underlies much of the scrambling that protects information online.
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In a state where test scores have declined over the past decade, 80% of charters are below the state average in reading and maths.
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FROM 2000 to 2002, about a third of a million 15-year-olds from 43 countries took similar tests in maths, reading and science.
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That a 50-something journalist quitting to become a maths teacher is front page news is not "an optimal state of affairs," she adds.
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Although it relies on complicated maths, in essence the model predicts energy consumption using energy efficiency and the relative cost of capital and energy.
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Some have become so British that they now struggle in their native tongue, getting A* grades in maths but Ds in Polish written exams.
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The average pupil's maths score of 564 suggests Singaporean teens are roughly three years ahead of their American peers, with a tally of 470.
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Research showed that three-quarters of young children who often miss days at kindergarten later fail California's maths and reading tests in third grade.
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The cryptographic puzzle used to mine ether (the digital coin associated with Ethereum) involves a fairly simple maths problem, but the inputs are enormous.
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The company's technology, which can spot unusual email activity and suspicious file uploads, is underpinned by complex maths that was developed at Cambridge University.
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The students who bluffed about maths were just as likely as the non-bluffers to admit that they had skipped school recently, for example.
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JUBA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Benson Mubarak saw his maths teacher enter the classroom in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, when everything suddenly went black.
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One problem is that schools in Britain produce few maths whizzes compared with those in other countries, says Anna Vignoles, an economist at Cambridge.
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It is somewhat different from the Western sort, being directed more single-mindedly towards academic success, and works particularly well in maths and science.
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The study gathered information about the online activities of more than 12,000 15-year-olds, as well as their maths, reading and science scores.
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In another study, Mike Terry of the University of North Carolina tested AAE speakers in second grade (roughly 7 years old) on their maths.
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In the battle for a 16-year-old's attention, football trumps maths and history, meaning that results suffer in years with big football competitions.
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This part of the installation will sit in the National Museum of Computing, right beside the clicking, blinking, clattering maths engine that is Colossus.
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However, Labour's would-be finance minister, John McDonnell, dismissed the Conservative estimates as "ludicrous" and a "mish-mash of debunked estimates and bad maths".
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Everyone who works at maths village is a volunteer, and the foundation receives donations from the public—mainly from teachers, students, villagers, and workers.
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According to some haphazard back-of-the-envelope (read: Slack channel) maths, it still has a way to go tweet out the full report.
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Confidence in the prophetic power of maths was then confirmed over and over again, up to the triumphant discovery of the long-predicted Higgs.
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"[Bias] is not a problem we can solve with maths because the very idea of bias really needs much broader thinking," Birhane tells Axios.
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Wall street to fashion designer Gueye launched the clothing label in 2015 and started using maths equations in her designs a few years later.
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The toy is designed as a doctor play product that helps children learn STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths) skills through games and puzzles.
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Her prank was sponsored by Samsung and Australia's science education centre, Questacon, which want to raise awareness about STEM education (science, technology, engineering and maths).
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The proportion offering science, technology, engineering or maths programmes, for instance, rose from less than a quarter in 2014 to almost a third in 2017.
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As well as strong skills in maths, the country has a tradition in language and translation research, says Harry Shum, who leads Microsoft's AI efforts.
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In South Africa, for example, nearly 80% of primary-school maths teachers have knowledge of the subject below that expected of a sixth-grade pupil.
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Men have roughly five in every six maths-heavy academic jobs in America, part of a wider puzzle that neither nature nor nurture fully explains.
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NEXT MONTH 11-year-olds will sit a series of short tests in maths and English—a fact that causes much unhappiness among England's teachers.
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The top 260 high schools in the country produce more distinction marks in maths and science exams than the other 240,250 high schools put together.
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According to a study by Kirabo Jackson of Northwestern University and his colleagues, recession-era budget cuts did lead to lower maths and reading scores.
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For example, a teacher can dive deeply into which subjects in maths a student might be struggling with, be it integration or understanding partial fractions.
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Black holes, which were predicted by maths before they were discovered in nature, are singularities—points where the familiar laws of physics cease to apply.
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In one maths class a small group of teenagers, all relative newcomers, respond in confident German when asked what jobs they would like to do.
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CZT used a machine called AI-Maths to take the mathematics section of the grueling, two-day Gaokao, as China's college entrance exam is called.
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It's increasingly clear that learning to code at school is as important as maths and English, but it's not just a skill for city kids.
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The shake-out would only abate once the maths problems get easy enough that less power is needed, enabling the remaining miners to scrape by.
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Saying that only one or two percent of the population would die from COVID-19 sounds not-that-bad until you actually do the maths.
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"I think it helps to calm down, believe in maths and data, and make reasonable choices (even when it's hard to make one)," he wrote.
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Global organizations, including the United Nations and the European Commission, have spoken out about under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
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She currently shuttles between the US, where she teaches maths in a Silicon Valley high school and Senegal, West Africa, where her clothes are made.
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It raises the question of how learning developed through evolution, and whether we need to widen our definition of cognition to include non-humans. Maths.
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PAUL SAMUELSON was the rare sort of economist who understood that a well-crafted joke can have a greater impact than pages of complex maths.
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Even so, barely half of fifth-grade students nationwide had reached second-grade reading level, and less than a third were able to do basic maths.
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It found that, on average, pupils who attended private school had lower maths scores at the end of their first year than those who did not.
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At the start of the day pupils gather for mindfulness exercises, maths questions, pledges to work hard—and a blood-pumping rendition of Katy Perry's "Firework".
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Last year for Christmas he asked his parents for the £125 registration fee to sit maths GCSE, an exam most children in Britain take at 16.
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In 2015 the OECD found no link between what countries spend on IT in schools and their 15-year-olds' abilities in maths, science and reading.
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"From the maths point of view it is not bad but conceptually it is far from an ideal situation that you can brag about," said Polevoy.
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But overall, pupils at PSL schools made roughly an additional seven months' worth of progress in English and maths compared with children at typical public institutions.
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He takes a few hours of maths, geography and history at the junior high school but spends most of the school day in intensive language classes.
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Thierry Muret: I've always been a maths nerd and crystallography is a blend of two sciences, chemistry and physics with a very strong focus on mathematics.
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So the idea that you've got the brains and the academics to study maths, but at the same time to have passion for something like theater.
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"In some ways, knowing maths can secure kids a stable income," said Nesin, noting that talent for the subject was best nurtured at an early age.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Social Finance Israel (SFI) has launched a social impact bond to improve maths performance for high school students in the country's Bedouin community.
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In South Africa, I worked at LEAP Science and Maths Schools, a nonprofit that championed the idea that personal growth was professional growth, and vice versa.
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At St Thomas Aquinas, they have been used for catch-up quizzes at the start of maths lessons and to film gymnastics to check on technique.
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The unemployed, say, or the pupils taught by one of the 80% of maths teachers who cannot do sums expected of 12- and 13-year-olds?
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Watching these seven rookie detectives bicker over the best method to solve a maths problem or team up to chase down a thief is entertainment gold.
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"I went to an all-boys school - I kind of did the maths and was like if I come out, I'd be beaten up," Young said.
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The $10m prize will go to the software that most successfully enables children to read, write and do simple maths problems in the absence of a teacher.
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EVERY three years the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, tests hundreds of thousands of high-school pupils across the world on maths, reading and science.
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One scene in Germany shows Mohamad, a maths teacher and RBSS reporter, playfully flirting with his wife on the train and taking selfies at a Christmas market.
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Another worry is that the emphasis on results has led to a narrowing of the curriculum as schools focus on maths and English, the only subjects tested.
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But translating a piece of maths into usable computer code and then delivering it to the zillions of machines that will need updating will not be easy.
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Liberal Chicagoans are swooning over the progressive policies of the earnest Harvard-educated maths professor who is the child of violinists and brother of a talented pianist.
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After school every day, there are lessons in maths, science and arts besides computers, and a game of football most evenings in the playground across the street.
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The Maths robot - dubbed OVObot - which is a small, blue machine around 25 cm (10 inches) high and resembles an owl, was developed by Finnish AI Robots.
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According to the caption, the video was filmed over a maths and an English lesson with Foley's Year 8 class at Cardinal Pole School in Hackney, London.
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"The days of $100 a barrel oil have gone for a long, long time but it's back to the simple maths around supply and demand," Cochrane added.
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But, while he and others stretched and squeezed the maths, experimentalists set about trying to catch the putative waves in the act of stretching and squeezing matter.
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But in order to limit the supply of coins, the system adjusts the difficulty of the maths problems in response to computers entering or leaving its network.
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Students in the UK were asked to calculate the calorific value of a woman's breakfast of banana and yoghurt while sitting their GCSE maths exam last week.
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Tucked away in an arcadian setting, the village aims to cultivate deep maths appreciation among its visitors without the vices of modern life getting in the way.
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"He works out all the details, does the maths and then we collect the eggs and we all deliver them together," his mother, Georgina, tells the Mirror.
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They say, 'You are really North Korean?' said Park, a former maths teacher who was sold to a Chinese farmer when she crossed the border into China.
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The Education Ministry has announced plans to boost studies of maths and science, especially in high-schools outside the cities where advanced classes are not always available.
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Even my miserable maths says that two out of three leaves one, and that one is the withdrawal agreement that will be before us on Tuesday night.
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I come from a generation where maths and sciences were sort of left to the other gender and I was pushed into English and creative and whatnot.
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Thailand limped into the bottom quarter of 70 countries whose pupils participated in the maths, reading and science tests organised under the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
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Education ministers throughout the world are rightly beating a path to Singapore's door to find out the secrets of its spectacular success in its science and maths results.
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The book, with the working title "Mad Men To Maths Men," (in reference to the hit TV drama) will be coming out in Germany first, and later internationally.
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Some would rather the reforms offered a broader education to those going down a vocational path, with more of a focus on ensuring competency in maths and English.
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The Union's founding chairman Bas van der Gaag, a high school maths teacher, said that although it is based in the Netherlands, it hopes to win members internationally.
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Harry had given up his career in computing and home-educated Ruth since she was five; at 503 she won a place to study maths at Oxford University.
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The son, 19, has a place at Imperial College, London, to study maths and computer science, according to one of his school friends cited by the Guardian newspaper.
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A few years ago, he used to attract 25,000 students to a particular stadium in Delhi, and fly to nine cities every week to teach high-school maths.
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In a program first developed by People's Watch in 1997, human rights was integrated in the teaching of English, maths and science in schools in 18 Indian states.
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A recent paper found that Indian children using Mindspark after school made some of the largest gains in maths and reading of any education study in poor countries.
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But the agency already publishes the details of its maths in the form of regulatory impact analyses, often hundreds of pages long, which are available for public scrutiny.
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For bitcoin, the three data inputs to the cryptographic puzzle are relatively small but the maths problem is hard, meaning that chip design hands miners a big advantage.
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In Texas proficiency in maths among eighth-graders (aged 21-2200) has fallen since 26.5, when the legislature announced it would cut $5.4bn from education over two years.
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For most people, therefore, the best hope of circumventing Shor's algorithm is to find a bit of one-way maths that does not give quantum computers an advantage.
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To economists who consider heavy-duty maths a mark of seriousness, such reluctance to use equations is either evidence of intellectual inferiority or a way of avoiding scrutiny.
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AI-Maths, a machine made of 11 servers, three years in the making, joined almost 10 million high schoolers last week, in sitting for the country's national exam.
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The AI-Maths, which was developed as part of a project by the Ministry of Science and Technology, has been trained to tackle more than 10,000 math questions.
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William told a group that he wasn't good at maths and that geography was his favorite subject — and urged the children not to "rush" their answers in class.
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British school results are average to below-average in maths, reading and science, according to the OECD, and the LSE said they had improved little in recent years.
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"Maths says clearly we'll get the balance of power in Queensland," Dickson told Sky News, adding that his party was riding a global backlash against establishment political parties.
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Women in traditionally male-dominated fields such as STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths), for instance, can be targets of prejudice and negative stereotyping which undermines their success.
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"Teachers, parents, brothers and sisters and classmates can all play a role in shaping a child's maths anxiety," study co-author Ros McLellan said in the press release.
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Maybe some of the moments Dizzee seemed to get away with on Maths + English only seem passable in light of the more overtly sell-out moments that followed.
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The government will also spend 22.78 billion riyals on technical training facilities in schools and says it will target improvements in maths and science exam grades by 2020.
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A study in 220 suggests that the knowledge of sixth-grade pupils in a poor area of Delhi is 2½ grades below what the maths syllabus expects of them.
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Here's the maths: Courage the goldfish is 5 centimetres (1.9 inch) long and the pebble, which was lodged lengthways across his mouth, measured in at 9 millimetres (0.35 inches).
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The aim was to make it possible for any child to have an "Eton-level education" in maths or physics, recalls Dominic Cummings, a former adviser to Mr Gove.
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As soon as school is out, his mother, Yang Mei, shuttles him around the city, dropping him off at tutoring agencies where he studies advanced maths and English grammar.
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This boosted female enrolment in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) at universities, which in turn helped fill the CEO pipeline (because many bosses have a STEM background).
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Wendy Baty, the school's head of maths, is an enthusiast; she says that pupils receive feedback that "even the best teacher could not provide to all of the class".
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The 1997 drama, which stars Matt Damon and Robin Williams, tells the fictional story of a maths genius who works as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The stellar performance of children in China's richest cities in international tests of ability in maths, science and reading has lent the country's education system a glossy sheen abroad.
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One Monday morning at the Khan Lab School (KLS) in Mountain View, California, he explains that his maths is "pretty strong" but he needs to work on his writing.
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The country does better in reading (see chart), maths and science than the other Latin American countries for which the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, collects data.
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Daniel Biss, a state senator and former maths teacher who was defeated by Mr Pritzker, wondered during the campaign whether Illinois is engaged in "an auction or an election".
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I love the fact that all of that hard maths and physics is invisible to the user, who's left with a mouth slightly agape and a mind utterly perplexed.
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Students everywhere collectively gulped in dismay at the exceptionally high boundaries this year: Looking at the unofficial mark scheme for maths v Looking at the grade boundaries #GCSEResults2016 pic.twitter.
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Beyoncé is that girl at school who is good at every single thing (like, she is good at maths and PE), who you both admire and find incredibly annoying.
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And, after several Eastern European states had joined, suddenly the whole of Europe could tap into the talent produced from Soviet-era education systems built around engineering and maths.
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Maths lovers rejoice: There's a "village" in Turkey where visitors can develop a deeper appreciation for the beauty of numbers, all from the comforts of a leafy green sanctuary.
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Dizzee's move into more explicitly commercial territory came around fast, overshadowing the way Maths + English pretty much nails the kind of balancing act we expect of today's grime superstars.
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Not only was she the first girl to join the Maths Olympiad but she also beat all the boys that year, and took her A-levels a year early.
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Yet again, Singapore was an outstanding performer in the triennial PISA tests of 15- and 16-year-olds' reading, maths and science skills, published by the OECD this week.
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The typical candidate for a risk management job would have a degree in maths or physics to help spot the risk of, for example, a mortgage default, one headhunter said.
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In one study in 2007 maths teachers of 1.30- and 12-year-olds sat tests similar to those taken by their class; questions included simple calculations of fractions and ratios.
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Even Singapore, which does divert some pupils to a vocational track at the age of 21990, ensures that pupils in those schools keep up high standards in reading and maths.
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A study published in 2016 found that the knowledge of sixth-grade pupils in a poor part of Delhi is 2½ grades below what the maths syllabus expects of them.
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This change appeared to breach the commission's own rules and the election law, but a court found the new maths constitutionally permissible just hours before the party-list results appeared.
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In maths, computer science, engineering and the physical sciences, Ms Ginther found no discernible difference between the satisfaction reported by men and women with tenure or on the tenure track.
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Al-Qarawiyyin lays claim to leading advances in science, maths and philosophy through its Islam-centred teachings at a time when Europe was buckling down for the medieval Dark Ages.
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If the latest polls are any indicator, crude maths suggest that Trump will win around 300 delegates on Super Tuesday, compared to just 170 for Cruz and 110 for Rubio.
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The three economists found that those who received vouchers and moved to private schools had worse test scores in maths, reading, science and social studies than those who missed out.
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"I'm thinking of setting up other projects at the moment, but I really want to make sure that things work out for my maths, philosophy, and arts villages," he said.
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This is partly due to problems in secondary and primary schools where lack of funding means some classrooms do not have computers and advanced maths teachers are in short supply.
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A strong tradition of maths and computer science teaching that is present in many countries in former Soviet Union countries means Ukraine has more than 20,000 IT graduates each year.
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That's not an apple tart—it's an up-the-nostril shot of my old maths teacher Mr Willis as he bored 30 hormonal teachers for 45 minutes about simultaneous equations.
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And at Cambridge, they were not formally members of the University until 1948: when Philippa Fawcett came top in the maths exams, she was not even allowed to collect her degree.
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Graduates from lesser-known colleges focusing on science, technology and maths like Kettering University and the Stevens Institute of Technology earn, on average, just as much as their Ivy League peers.
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The "maths mob" skewered in Mr Stoppard's play no longer seems so ridiculous; with the publication of the "New Oxford Shakespeare", they have shaped the debate about authorship in Elizabethan England.
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Last month, his freestyle on BBC Radio 1Xtra went viral because of lines like "Two plus two is four, minus one that's three, quick maths" and a long, sloppy gunshot onomatopeia.
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We also want to reach out to the technical community and add our voice to social media conversations about technology, maths, cyber security, and other topics where we have a view.
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But now that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is headed by Scott Pruitt, a climate-change sceptic who is friendly with fossil-fuel firms, the maths is likely to be redone.
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Although international studies suggest that direct instruction is indeed a good way of conveying knowledge, critics contend that Singapore has a "drill and kill" model that produces uncreative, miserable maths whizzes.
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The researchers then scored each child based on the results of science, maths and English GCSE exams, typically taken by all schoolchildren in England and Wales at the age of 16.
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Mr Touadera, a mild-mannered former maths professor, is seen as an independent outsider, despite working under Mr Bozizé for four years until the Séléka takeover in 2013, says Mr Fielding.
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The Skidos SDK, which is initially focusing on maths, soft launched at the Nordic Game conference in May 2016 where, Prakash says, the startup got a "phenomenal response" from game developers.
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They invest more time in their children than their own parents did, shuttling them to extra maths and flute lessons in the hope that they will get into a good university.
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Another concession to coalition partners agreed upon this month was the decision to continue public funding for ultra-Orthodox schools that do not teach basic secular subjects, including maths and English.
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The young maths teacher found a broker who promised a good job in neighbouring China but instead she was sold as a wife to an alcoholic farmer for 5,000 yuan ($750).
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SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted some maths for how long he thinks it would take SpaceX to transport the necessary materials to Mars to build a self-sustaining city.
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The rise in perceived need for more STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) has made schools squeeze anything that looks dispensable, and in the English-speaking world that includes foreign languages.
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LONDON, Feb 7 (LPC) - An assault on pricing in Europe's leveraged loan market has put pressure on CLO managers worried about making the maths work as interest margins continue to grind lower.
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In 2012 Peru ranked last among the 65 countries that took part in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which tests the reading, maths and science proficiency of 133-year-olds.
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Japan and South Korea have above-average results in science and maths, as do cities such as Hong Kong and Macau, both autonomous territories of China, and Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.
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A study done by researchers at Harvard found an initial drop-off in test scores, and then, after the reforms set in, a big improvement in English tests, though not in maths.
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When Samuelson started out, debates over economic theory were predominantly verbal rather than mathematical; in 1940 70% of articles on economic theory in the American Economic Review did not include any maths.
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To turn this into a maths problem: if A must equal B and B must equal C then A must equal C. At some point, this fudge will have to be resolved.
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It also requires school districts to set five-year goals for third-grade (eight-to-nine-year-olds') reading and maths, broken down by race and income, and to publish results annually.
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Of the 69 other parts of the world whose 15-year-olds took the PISA maths test in 2015, 36 scored higher than America, 28 lower and five did about the same.
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And as an added benefit of that, teachers can cross-reference each other — for example, a physics teacher may collaborate with a maths teacher in order to figure out the best curriculum.
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Preschool-aged children need to interact with actual physical objects in order to develop their parietal cortex, which controls visual–spatial processing and helps develop maths and science skills in later life.
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Languages are the most popular categories, although the marketplace is not exclusively focused on this (unlike, for example, tutoring platform Verbling) — offering tutoring in other subjects including art, science, maths and music.
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In 2010 he won the maths equivalent to the Nobel prize, the Fields Medal, for what the award called "proofs of nonlinear Landau damping and convergence to equilibrium of the Boltzmann equation".
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PISA, the OECD's international benchmark for 15-year-olds' attainment in science, maths and reading, does not cover the poorest nations, but results in several low-to-middle-income countries are disappointing.
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He was selected over Cedric Villani, an eccentric maths genius, recognizable for his silk cravats and spider brooches, with no political experience prior to his election as a LREM lawmaker in 2017.
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But if knowledge that the GRIM test might be applied to their work makes future researchers less careless and more open, then Mr Brown's and Dr Heathers's maths will have paid dividends.
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Best for spelling Best for interaction Best for telling time Best for STEM Best for coding Best for maths Best for science Best for creativity Best for music Best for motor skills
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"She's a genius in many, many ways, but especially when it comes to maths and technology," Wachter said when we caught up with her at the WIRED: Pulse AI event in London.
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While 44 percent of all science research positions - including social sciences - in the region are held by women, they are under-represented in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), according to UNESCO.
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No follower of convention, the Spaniard insists on writing formations with the goalkeeper included – it's 1-4-4-2, idiots – and cuts the appearance of a maths teacher attending a disciplinary hearing.
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After studying maths at the University of Sheffield, Gustafsson went on to train in accountancy with Deloitte, then worked with a string of tech startups, before joining the founding team at Darktrace.
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Having achieved A's for his O-levels, with the slight blemish of a B in English literature, Zaka had chosen for his A-levels the killer combination of maths, physics, and chemistry.
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The economic affairs secretary said the government's fiscal maths are very much in order and was confident of ending the financial year with the targeted fiscal deficit of 3.3 percent of GDP.
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Hamilton qualified second but was handed a three place penalty that, in a twist typical of a sport renowned for turning simple maths into a complex calculation, dropped the Briton to fourth.
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In 1983 Enoch Adejare Adeboye, a former maths professor who had become General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, acquired a small patch of land north of Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city.
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In Europe today, campaigners to get more women into top boffin jobs complain of a "leaky pipeline": many women end their involvement with STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) after finishing college.
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By the early 1990s, though, Chinese-American maths professors were producing 0.3 more papers a year than they had been prior to the influx of immigrants—a gap that had doubled by 2003.
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That is partly because many schools, often under pressure from tiger parents, teach more sessions of core subjects like maths and Chinese than is required by the education ministry, bumping physical-education classes.
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One appeared to enjoy belittling him, announcing to the class that "Tom found maths hard today," while neglecting to mention that he was doing work meant for children ten years older than him.
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The maths for these sorts of deals may be simplest for established artists, for whom performance is most predictable (though many will use their clout to get better deals with their existing labels).
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Mr Thompson cites studies suggesting that being assigned to an own-race teacher improves test scores in maths and reading tests by about five percentage points, as well as reducing suspensions and expulsions.
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Sitting in his tatty office in the Chinese capital, he recalls the heady days of life in Manhattan after finishing his degree in maths and computer science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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"We've introduced a Singaporean system for teaching maths in a more practical way that required us to buy special materials," says Marianela Cisternas of Belén Educa, a Catholic foundation that runs 12 schools.
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Of the SMPY participants who scored among the top 0.5% for their age-group in maths and verbal tests, 30% went on to earn a doctorate, versus 250% of Americans as a whole.
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Using Star Wars to covertly teach kids' STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) concepts is not a new idea, toy companies like littleBits and Sphero have already tried their hands at it.
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AI-Maths scored 105 points out of the maximum score of 150 in the first version of the test, and 100 for the second version, not far above the passing grade of 90.
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Johns Hopkins is helping to finish a long-delayed development on 88 acres (36 hectares) near the hospital; it is also overhauling the curriculum at nearby schools to emphasise science, maths and engineering.
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Then what does it mean, apart from a £25m-calamity for the bookies, that Leicester have defied the maths and won the league, in the process losing only three of their 36 games?
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We will be using Twitter to talk about our history, mission outcomes, languages, maths, cyber security, technology and innovation, job opportunities and as a way of signposting events, publications, news, blogs, and opinion pieces.
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As with a CPU, these are two key factors to consider, but also keep an eye out for FLOPS, or Floating Point Operations Per Second—a type of maths operation particularly important in graphics.
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An hour in, an actual hour in, an hour in which I'd heard the same kick 7500 times (if my GCSE maths is correct), and I was no closer to understanding the human condition.
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While Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects continued to grow in popularity, the falling trend in modern languages such as French and Spanish continued, with Chinese bucking the trend and rising 8.6 percent.
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Because tech companies deal with the stuff of hard sciences — maths, engineering, and the like— their products and predictions are often treated like the latest discovery: like something objectively better than what's come before.
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Rather, it's important to draw in on the part of this story that's been overlooked—Dizzee's third studio album (and his last on XL Recordings), Maths + English, which celebrates its tenth anniversary later summer.
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Separately, media reported that a North Korean teenager who took part in a Hong Kong maths contest in July and later sought asylum at the South Korean consulate there had arrived in South Korea.
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Schools should also cover climate issues across subjects ranging from maths to science to home economics, added Mackay, in order to train the current "climate generation" to consider sustainability across every area of life.
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The school is modelled on the Kolmogorov Physics and Mathematics School in Moscow, which from the mid-1960s took Russia's smartest 15-year-olds and exposed them to the best maths teaching in the country.
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For on November 20th Ms Kellaway wrote that next year she would become a maths teacher in a London state secondary school, and encouraged greying professionals to join her in a new charity, Now Teach.
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Mr Laidmets argues that it helps pupils find jobs later in life, since better maths and literacy make it easier for them to adapt to changes in the labour market and to earn new skills.
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Together we do the kind of determined mental maths women have perfected over centuries of being told we need to spend more money on clothes but also that we're terrible, frivolous idiots if we do.
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The "English Baccalaureate", which the government introduced in 2010, judges schools on the proportion of pupils who get good grades in English, maths, history or geography, the sciences and a language—but not the arts.
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Women did study occasionally at Qarawiyyin, but when we say somebody was educated, it meant that they knew the Quran and everything about religion, perhaps a bit of astronomy and a kind of maths too.
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The Gulen movement does not found mosques but in Germany it runs dozens of educational and cultural centres, including night schools which boost the skills of children who are struggling at, say, maths or history.
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Africa loses $4 billion a year by outsourcing jobs in science, technology, engineering and maths, the so-called STEM fields, to foreign professionals, said Thierry Zomahoun, chairman and founder of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF).
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" Waller-Bridge didn't have a particularly religious upbringing, she said, but at a Roman Catholic girls' school in West London, she attended Mass and would "stare at crucifixes in the corridor between maths and chemistry.
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The main reason for the shortfall is a sharp drop in the number of computer science, maths and statistics graduates, down from a peak of 3,000 in 2005 to a low of 1,600 in 2008.
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The sources at the banks, asset managers and trading platforms told Reuters there was a shift towards hiring quants, who usually have a degree in maths, physics or computer science, or staff with a data background.
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The maths in question is topology, a branch of geometry which deals in "invariants", such as holes, that can exist in geometric shapes only in discrete, integer numbers (nothing can have half a hole in it).
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UNESCO, the United Nations body responsible for education and science, estimates that six out of ten children worldwide (a total of more than 600m) do not meet a minimum standard of proficiency in reading and maths.
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Its 22024-year-olds' scores on the PISA test, which measures proficiency in science, reading and maths, lag far behind those of European countries like Bulgaria and Romania, which spend similar amounts per student on education.
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The sources at the banks, asset managers and trading platforms told Reuters there was a shift toward hiring quants, who usually have a degree in maths, physics or computer science, or staff with a data background.
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The share of bachelor's degrees in computing awarded to women has halved since 1985, even as the proportion of degrees earned by women in other traditionally male-dominated fields such as maths and engineering has increased.
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The maths scores of the private schools that taught in the local language, Telugu, were higher than those taught in English, suggesting that while private schools confer an advantage, being taught in English is a disadvantage.
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"The market reaction was not about doing the maths," said Cosimo Marasciulo, head of European government bonds at Pioneer, said the fund had taken an overweight position in Italian bonds for the first time this year.
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In a 2011 paper Sean Reardon of Stanford University examined the difference in test scores in maths and reading between children from families in the 90th percentile of the income distribution and those in the 10th.
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This is the piece of quantum-turbocharged maths that allows rapid factorisation of large numbers into their component primes, and thus scares cryptographers, a group whose trade depends on this being a hard thing to do.
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PUZZLES EARN COINS Bitcoin miners - typically firms that run collections of highly-powered computers hooked up to cheap, plentiful electricity - compete against others in the bitcoin network to solve complex maths puzzles and earn new coins.
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At Caltech, having switched from maths to physics to study pulsars, he also spent hours in the campus workshop learning to weld and use a lathe, and helped to build a 1.5-metre telescope from first principles.
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That inspires hope that Mexico may have improved its lowly ranking in the next round of PISA tests, an international measure of student proficiency in maths, reading and science, the results of which are due in December.
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Vietnam caused astonishment when in 2012 it entered the PISA tests for the first time, and returned stunning results – scoring higher in maths than the U.K. and the U.S. with a ranking 17th out of 65 countries.
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They say that their parents were sceptical at first—as well they might be, seeing hours that could have been spent on maths or English whiled away in meditative silence—but have come round to the idea.
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A study in 2018 revealed that college-bound women aren't deterred from entering specific fields because of tough maths or science requirements, but because of the gender discrimination which they are likely to encounter in those fields.
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Even Ajay, a third-year maths, statistics and business student who has not enjoyed his time at university, says he does not regret his decision to study in London: "The job prospects outweigh three years of misery."
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After Harvard and a stint at Princeton, she ended up at Stanford, winning the Fields medal—broadly the maths equivalent of a Nobel prize—in 2014, the first woman to do so since its inception in 1936.
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When pupils at the Ascend School in Oakland arrive for their daily hour and a half of maths, they look up at monitors resembling airport information screens which tell them what and how they will learn today.
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She is royal patron of the 1851 Trust, which was set up by British sailor and five-time Olympic medalist Ben Ainslie to encourage young people to get into science, technology, engineering and maths through the sport.
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The country consistently ranks at the top of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a triennial test of 15-year-olds in dozens of countries, in the main three categories of maths, reading and science.
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The outcome is massive as some of the kids have competed in international robotic competitions like the World Robotics Olympiad and Robofest where they are encouraged to sharpen their skills in Computer, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths.
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I flick on the episode of Dexter's Laboratory and laugh through a mouthful of omelette at the same moments: the teacher asking the insane mumbo jumbo Maths question, and his look of surprise when Dexter is correct.
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A study published in 2013 found that pupils at low-cost private schools in the south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh achieved the same scores in maths and Telugu (the local language) as pupils at government-run schools.
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"I don't think the leaders will resolve this any time soon," she said, sitting on the dirt floor of a shelter that was once used to teach children grammar and maths, but is now occupied by new arrivals.
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THE 80 or so pupils in Class 9 of YDVP Inter College, a private school in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, chorus "good morning" to the visitor, and then turn their attention back to the maths teacher.
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The sixth Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test of the science, maths and reading skills of 15-year-olds from across the world, was published by the OECD club of mainly rich countries on December 6th.
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Apart from his first teacher at the school, whom Tom describes as "incredible" and who encouraged his interest in maths by sitting with him during break times to work through problems, his other teachers seemed to hate him.
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To continue, parents are asked to select a monthly or yearly subscription that provides unlimited access to the game-based curriculum covering 8 different subjects (from maths to coding to health), which are available in 4 different languages.
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They found that the progress made in language and maths by those pupils was greater than in almost any study of education in poor countries—and for a fraction of the cost of attending a government-run school.
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It is one of the few tools that have been shown to make kids smarter; children who used the app even just once a week for a year improved their maths by more than a control group did.
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To "mine" new bitcoins—ones that do not already belong to someone else—users hook up their computers to a network, and instruct them to keep guessing the solution to a maths problem until they get it right.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Ivanka Trump, U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter and informal adviser, told a summit in Tokyo on Friday that the world must boost women and minority participation in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
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The maths of string theory only works if there are more than four dimensions: three spatial dimensions, a time dimension, and then lots of other dimensions that are so small that they can't be detected, only derived mathematically.
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Villani is an eccentric maths genius who entered politics in 2017 when Macron's fledgling Republique En Marche (LREM) party redrew the parliamentary landscape in France, and has become one of the most popular Macronista figures with the public.
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Ginday, whose clients include fashion labels, tech giants and restaurants, said Harry and Meghan came across her almond treats when she met them at an event in March to encourage girls into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths.
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Last year a study of boarders in five provinces found they did less well than day pupils in tests of their language ability, memory and speed at problem-solving (there was little difference, however, in their abilities in maths).
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But globalisation has cranked up competition for the best jobs, and academic standards in different countries have become easier to compare thanks to the OECD's PISA scores, which measure the reading, maths and science performance of 15-year-olds.
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It's all well and good for teachers to give a broad overview to parents of how their kids are doing, but it doesn't do much good if a teacher just says "she's not doing well in maths," Lakhani said.
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A follow-up study by CREDO in 2015 found that across 41 urban areas, children in charters were learning the equivalent of 20113 more days of maths and 28 days of English every year than pupils in traditional schools.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When maths teacher Sonja Trauss saw 20 people show up for an open house in San Francisco, she realized a simple truth about housing in the city - there simply isn't enough to go around.
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Looking at the experiences of a total of 2,700 primary and secondary students in the UK and Italy, the researchers found that primary and secondary school girls had higher levels of both maths anxiety and general anxiety than boys.
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Nesin Matematik Köyü (maths village), located one kilometre away from the village of Şirince in Izmir province in Western Turkey, was launched in 2007 by Ali Nesin, a veteran mathematician who heads up education non-profit the Nesin Foundation.
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The goal of the program, to be presented to the United Nations on Wednesday, is to raise the number of students matriculating in higher levels of maths in the town of Rahat from the current level of only 15%.
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If bees can learn such a seemingly advanced maths skill that we don't even find in some ancient human cultures, perhaps this opens the door to considering the mechanism that allows animals and ourselves to understand the concept of nothing.
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Some such institutions already offer a mixture: Wycombe Abbey International, which is based in Changzhou in eastern China and affiliated to a British girls' boarding school, teaches "political education", a form of government propaganda, and follows a Chinese curriculum for maths.
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In the latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, held in 2015, Chinese 15-year-olds in some cities did better in science and maths than their counterparts in most members of the OECD, a club mostly of rich countries.
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It would be an unusual child, though, that could be left unmoved by one bit of maths content advertised by the firm—Shah Rukh Khan, a Bollywood star, guiding a troupe of dancers rhythmically laying out a proof for Pythagoras's theorem.
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Countries in the region offer a host of advantages for start ups, including a long tradition of producing graduates strong in maths and computer science and a low cost base that allows entrepreneurs to do more with less as companies grow.
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If the size and shape of the occluder are known, it is possible, using sufficiently dizzying maths, to calculate from the pattern of the penumbra what light has been blocked—and thus what the image on the screen looked like.
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Robo Wunderkind Robotics Kit See Details Merge Cube VR and AR Used to engage kids in maths, science, anatomy, engineering, and more, this product lets them play and create in augmented reality by holding holograms and interacting with digital objects.
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Receiving the exact same number of votes, R&B trio WSTRN and dance producer Mura Masa have taken joint fifth place which, if basic maths serves us correctly, means six artists will be battling it out on this year's shortlist.
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They include boosting education funding for disadvantaged groups, introducing national service for Israelis like ultra-Orthodox Jews now exempted from conscription, requiring pension providers to offer low-cost pensions, and requiring religious schools to teach maths, science and foreign languages.
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The maths is simple, if 6 people living in a house are all willing to put in £50 (the cost of an above-average night out) then there is a budget of £300 to play with and absolutely no venue costs.
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" The core of his analysis is that the other papers are using "the wrong mental model" — measuring the wrong process — and by doing so "they bring to the table the wrong form of maths and thereby an apparently mathematically objective pessimism.
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Still, we thought he was taking things a bit far when he joined Zaka's mother and sisters as they leapt, ululated, and danced around Zaka when he won the Maths Award and the St. Ignatius Award for Services to Loyola.
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Instantly recognizable for his ascot neckties and spider brooches, Villani in 2010 won the maths equivalent to the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal, for what the award called "proofs of nonlinear Landau damping and convergence to equilibrium of the Boltzmann equation".
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"It's unfortunate that we have painted ourselves into such a social corner with sex because it could be that the people who are doing these maths on Reddit see sex for what it is: interesting, compelling, and totally ordinary," Dr. Tibbals said.
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Just how bad India's schools are became clear when two Indian states participated in a scheme that compares attainment around the world and came 2000nd-23th out of 53 jurisdictions in reading, maths and science (academic research suggests private schools are little better).
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This year, though, there may be more tears than usual in England, where a new results system means that maths and English will be graded from nine to one, rather than A* to G (all subjects will adopt the new system by 2020).
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It's good to have something target maths, but if you want to supercharge your teachers and arm them with real-time data and make that intervention, then you need to be giving them some deeper insights into the data and behavior of students.
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Second, when Dr Turok was asking fellow African researchers which subjects would be most pertinent to the continental scientific Renaissance he hoped to trigger, most agreed that maths, which is fundamental to the rest of science, was the one to go for.
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Within days of her arrival, the 28-year-old former maths student from Blackburn joined the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) —the all-female affiliate army of the People's Protection Units (YPG) of Syrian Kurdistan—and has been fighting alongside them ever since.
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"We have an extensive electronic trading business, powered by our algorithmic market making platform, which is staffed by many people that have maths and science PhDs from various backgrounds," said Tuchman, who heads trading for Citi's global developed and emerging currency businesses.
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The firm's CFO, Luca Maestri, accused Ms Vestager's team of "legal mumbo-jumbo" and poor maths: their calculation that Apple paid an Irish tax rate of under 1% for 2014 was arrived at using the "wrong denominator and the wrong numerator", he claimed.
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At the same time, Flug said government spending per student is only about 75 percent of the OECD average and has led to Israelis performing poorly in tests of basic skills such as literacy, maths, writing and problem solving in a digital environment.
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While some have disapproved of the show's teaching methods, particularly in Britain due to its original intention for US audiences, Sesame Street's 47 years on air must are a testament to doing something right, whilst championing inclusivity, respect, and your basic maths.
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The 'red-red-green' option, already being tested at the regional level in Berlin, looks tempting — but tricky coalition maths, decades of bad blood between the SPD and the Left party and a new rightist Greens leadership stack the odds against it.
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Horner, who is a member of the BRDC without playing an active role, said the body had clearly got its maths wrong when it signed the original deal with former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone and further mistakes were made along the way.
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