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Other evidence points in the same direction. According to international studies of student performance in math and science in many industrialized countries, students perform better when they must take comprehensive graduation examinations that are administered by an external examining board. In the United States, we have Advanced Placement (AP) exams, but only 10 percent of all those in an age cohort pass that exam...
...mutual funds traveled this trail of tears, Southern California math professor Ed Thorp was delivering positive, usually double-digit, returns every year to investors in the fund he launched in 1969. Thorp, probably best known for figuring out how to beat the house at blackjack, did this by programming computers to identify small price discrepancies between securities that should have been trading in tandem. Then he borrowed tons of money to bet that these discrepancies would disappear. Such strategies were off-limits to mutual funds, but Thorp's Princeton Newport Partners was a hedge fund--an unregulated investment partnership catering...
...controversies.The Princeton article, which was written in broken English, parodied an Asian-American student who, after being denied admission, sued the school for discrimination. The article appeared in the paper’s annual prank edition.The column began, “Hi Princeton! Remember me? I so good at math and science. Perfect 2400 SAT score. Ring bells?”The writers, some of whom were Asian, said that their intent was not to insult Asians, but rather to mock the very stereotypes racism employs.But many on campus found the article offensive and 629 students have joined the Facebook...
...became a teacher and worked in just about every position in education--teacher's aide; staff developer; math coach; and sixth-grade teacher in a self-contained class where he taught social studies, science, math and English language arts. Along the way, he was recruited to work in some of the city's best schools. But when offered a position in his old neighborhood, he realized that that was where he could make the biggest difference. "We each have a responsibility and an obligation to better the lives of as many people as we can," says Kennedy. "There is greatness...
Tymoczko's answer, which led last summer to the first paper on music theory ever published in the journal Science, is that the cosmos of chords consists of weird, multidimensional spaces, known as orbifolds, that turn back on themselves with a twist, like the Mbius strips math teachers love to trot out to prove to students that a two-dimensional figure can have only one side. Indeed, the simplest chords, which consist of just two notes, live on an actual Mbius strip. Three-note chords reside in spaces that look like prisms--except that opposing faces connect...