On April 12th, 2025 with 54 comments
Abstract of a paper on NBER: There is much disagreement about the extent to which financial incentives motivate study participants. We elicit preferences for...
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On January 31st, 2025 with 57 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: At first blush, stock trading this week is hardly a paragon of the market-efficiency theory, an oft-romanticized idea in...
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On August 16th, 2024 with 28 comments
America's top colleges and finance-industry recruiters have long had their eye on teenage whiz-kids who compete in a prestigious high-school math contest. Now,...
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On July 6th, 2024 with 90 comments
New York City announced a "major citywide initiative" to increase "math achievement" among students, according to the mayor's office.
93 middle schools and...
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On September 1st, 2023 with 35 comments
"Given that too many schools don't teach calculus, chemistry and physics, CalTech is allowing potential undergraduates to demonstrate their ability in these...
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On August 10th, 2021 with 337 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Oregon Live: For the next five years, an Oregon high school diploma will be no guarantee that the student who earned...
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On February 28th, 2020 with 84 comments
darenw shares a report: Freeman J. Dyson, a mathematical prodigy who left his mark on subatomic physics before turning to messier subjects like Earth's...
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On December 29th, 2019 with 39 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: A Microsoft blog post notes the company has lined up K-12 educators to sing the praises of Minecraft Education Edition...
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On November 26th, 2019 with 220 comments
Texas Instruments' $100 calculators have been required in classrooms for more than twenty years, as students and teachers still struggle to afford them. From a...
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On October 12th, 2019 with 222 comments
"In a widely-reprinted essay, Ohio State University assistant professor of physics Chris Orban ponders whether the tech world did students a favor or...
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On May 2nd, 2018 with 141 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Back in 2012, a Reddit user posted a map claiming to show the longest straight line that could be traversed...
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On May 15th, 2017 with 281 comments
If you took a math class at some point in the US, there is likely a bulky $100 calculator gathering dust somewhere in your closet. Fast forward to today, and...
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On March 31st, 2017 with 239 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: The demand for employees in STEM careers (science, technology, engineering and math) is particularly high, as corporations...
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On July 27th, 2016 with 174 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a math-heavy report via AllFlicks: The folks at AllFlicks decided to crunch some numbers to determine just how much more...
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On June 2nd, 2016 with 146 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Gizmodo: The Hubble Space Telescope has released some new numbers indicating that the rate of expansion of our...
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On May 30th, 2016 with 143 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: A trio of researchers has solved a single math problem by using a supercomputer to grind through over a...
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On May 25th, 2016 with 207 comments
Taco Cowboy quotes a report from Science Magazine: Nathan Myhrvold, ex-CTO of Microsoft, is accusing NASA of providing bad statistics on asteroid size. Mr....
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On May 16th, 2016 with 280 comments
An anonymous reader writes: (edited and condensed)Research by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has found that the 'maths gender gap', the relative under...
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On April 10th, 2016 with 102 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship which launched from Cape Canaveral on Friday delivered the world's first inflatable room for...
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On March 19th, 2016 with 264 comments
Lucas123 writes: An MIT [Senseable City Lab] study based on mathematical modeling demonstrated a likely scenario in which high-tech vehicles, using sensors to...
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On March 15th, 2016 with 38 comments
Lucas123 writes: GM today announced a short-term vehicle rental program exclusive to the Lyft ride-sharing service, but it also made clear a longer-term goal...
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On March 13th, 2016 with 282 comments
An anonymous reader points us to a fascinating piece at The Economist that tries to explain the elements that drive people to work so hard: Working effectively...
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On March 3rd, 2016 with 80 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Aberrant treatment of transactions by Bitcoin miners has renewed concerns that Bitcoin as a protocol may need a stronger...
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On October 30th, 2015 with 363 comments
schwit1 writes: California State University at Fullerton brought a grievance against associate professor Alain Bourget recently. It wasn't for poor results or...
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On July 19th, 2015 with 280 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. won the International Mathematical Olympiad for the first time in 21 years. Gender diversity is brought up in this NPR...
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On May 10th, 2015 with 94 comments
An anonymous reader with this story about a practical application of big data analysis as applied to the trove of sensor readings taken by satellites and by...
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On November 18th, 2014 with 55 comments
HughPickens.com writes: Every year the works of thousands of authors enter the public domain, but only a small percentage of these end up being widely...
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On October 1st, 2014 with 942 comments
00_NOP writes: Children in the U.K. have been taught in metric measures in school since (at least) 1972, but yesterday British Prime Minister David Cameron...
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On September 17th, 2014 with 981 comments
mpicpp sends this news from CNN:
In swaths of Syria now controlled by ISIS, children can no longer study math or social studies. Sports are out of the...
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On August 23rd, 2014 with 243 comments
theodp writes Over at Khan Academy, Salman Khan explains Why I'm Cautious About Telling My Son He's Smart. "Recently," writes Khan, "I put into practice...
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