There was once a time when America’s lowest-performing students were improving just as much as the country’s top students. Despite their low scores, these students at the bottom made slow but steady gains on national tests for much of the 2000s. It was one sign that the U.S. education system was working, perhaps not spectacularly,…
Masaki Kashiwara, a Japanese mathematician, received this year’s Abel Prize, which aspires to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in math. Dr. Kashiwara’s highly abstract work combined algebra, geometry and differential equations in surprising ways. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, which manages the Abel Prize, announced the honor on Wednesday morning. “First…
Ingrid Daubechies, a mathematician at Duke University, is an expert on many matters, not least the baking of cookies in the shape of pi, the mathematical constant that equals the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, or roughly 3.14159. A sugar cookie recipe works fine, Dr. Daubechies says. But she prefers a savory…
CBSE Class 10 Math Exam Tomorrow: Scoring full marks in the CBSE Class 10 Mathematics exam isn’t just about practicing endlessly, it’s about understanding concepts, presenting solutions effectively, and managing time well. With the exam scheduled for tomorrow, March 10, 2025, students must now focus on last-minute revisions, problem-solving strategies, and effective time management to…
The words “optimal” and “optimize” derive from the Latin “optimus,” or “best,” as in “make the best of things.” Alessio Figalli, a mathematician at the university ETH Zurich, studies optimal transport: the most efficient allocation of starting points to end points. The scope of investigation is wide, including clouds, crystals, bubbles and chatbots. Dr. Figalli,…
<p>नई शोध से पता चला है कि भारतीय बच्चों में स्कूल में पढ़ाए जाने वाले मैथ्स और वास्तविक जीवन में काम आने वाली मैथ्स के बीच एक बड़ा अंतर है. यह अध्ययन बताता है कि जहां स्कूल जाने वाले बच्चे ऐकडेमिक मैथ्स में अच्छे होते हैं, वहीं बाजार में काम करने वाले बच्चे जटिल लेन-देन…
In the latest release of federal test scores, educators had hoped to see widespread recovery from the learning loss incurred during the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead, the results, from last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, tell a grim tale, especially in reading: The slide in achievement has only continued. The percentage of eighth graders who…
The world’s largest gathering of mathematicians convened in Seattle from Jan. 8 to Jan. 11 — 5,444 mathematicians, 3,272 talks. This year the program diverged somewhat from the its traditional kaleidoscopic panorama. An official theme, “Mathematics in the Age of A.I.,” was set by Bryna Kra, the president of the American Mathematical Society, which hosts…
Science doesn’t usually tolerate frivolity, but the infinite monkey theorem enjoys an exception. The question it poses is thoroughly outlandish: Could an infinite number of monkeys, each given an infinite amount of time to peck away at a typewriter (stocked with an infinite supply of paper, presumably) eventually produce, by pure chance, the complete works…
National mathematics day is celebrated every year in India on December 22 to honour the memory of mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.Ramanujan was born in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district on December 22, 1887. He showed a keen interest in mathematics from a young age and his brilliance was recognised by British mathematician G H Hardy when…