Orysya Stus is used to traffic. She’d seen plenty of it growing up in the Bay Area in California. But when she got to Seattle and drove downtown for the first time, trying to find a parking space was an exercise in frustration, exacerbated by all the other drivers desperately circling to find an elusive spot for their vehicles. (more…)
Growing up in the slums of the Philippines, Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez did not have the luxury of eating regular breakfast as a child. She was one of seven kids and life was hard for her family. She had only one pair of socks, which she would wash once a week. When it rained, she plugged the holes in her shoes with lollipop wrappers. When she was five years old, the Catholic nuns in the city invited Tuminez and her sisters to attend their school. That’s when her life changed. (more…)
Wichtiger als Beruf, Einkommen und Bildung ist das Interesse der Eltern, zeigt eine Studie von Bildungsforschern der Universität Tübingen
Kinder, deren Eltern sich wenig für Mathematik interessieren, profitieren mehr von einer unterstützenden Maßnahme zur Steigerung der Motivation als Kinder, deren Eltern Mathematik als wichtig erachten. Das haben Wissenschaftler vom Hector-Institut für Empirische Bildungsforschung an der Universität Tübingen in einer Studie herausgefunden. (more…)
– New cloud-based platform to help track and manage student data to improve efficiencies in education system
TOKYO and ARMONK, NY – 09 Aug 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) Japan today announced that Sony Corporation and Sony Global Education, a subsidiary of Sony that works to provide global educational services, have developed a new blockchain-based student education records platform. (more…)
Get the right figure with missing numbers
The right figure is …. (more…)
Terence Tao emphasizes the importance of hard work, plus ‘intuition, literature, and a bit of luck’
“What makes a genius?” National Geographic asks on the cover of its May 2017 issue. In the accompanying article, writer Claudia Kalb observes, “Throughout history rare individuals have stood out for their meteoric contributions to a field.” (more…)
UCLA-led study suggests people often don’t recall memories that threaten the way they want to see themselves
“What’s too painful to remember/ We simply choose to forget.”
– Barbra Streisand, “The Way We Were”
UCLA-led research has found that students in a college mathematics course experienced a phenomenon similar to repression, the psychological process in which people forget emotional or traumatic events to protect themselves. (more…)
What you get when you combine the smallest 1-digit natural number with the largest 1-digit number?
The answer is: (more…)
