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MEGA MATH CHALLENGE WINNERS: The Pine View team accepts the grand prize of $20,000 to split among the five team members. Left to right, Margaret Wright, Silver Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science; Alex Kiefer; Jason Oettinger; Frances G. Laserson, president of the Moody's Foundation; Caroline Bowman, Anthony Grebe; Patrick Braga; Ann Hankinson, Pine View math teacher and team coach. Link to complete article in right menu |
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1 is not a prime number
in any language.
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Kenny and Ms. H. celebrate after the
Who Wants To Be A Mathematician
virtual pep rally.
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Seniors Meghan, Alyssa, and Amber
celebrate Harry Potter Day
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 Building Parabolic Solar Cookers in Algebra II Honors.
Click on picture for plans.
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Mentoring 6th grade science in Radioactive Decay and Half-Life Exponential Decay Activity
See more pictures below. Click on the picture for more information |
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
-- Albert Einstein
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Mentoring the 6th grade science classes in Radioactive Decay and Half-Life
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April 28, 2011
Pine View team wins Moody's Mega Math Challenge $20,000 prize |
| High school students offer flood of ideas to counter Southwest drought (read more..) |
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January 07, 2011
Pine View School student Anthony Grebe won second place at the national "Who Wants To Be A Mathematician?" contest. |
SARASOTA -- Grebe, a 17-year-old junior, will leave the New Orleans competition with a $3,000 prize for himself and another $3,000 for the Sarasota school's math department. (read more..) |
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September 27, 2008
UCLA mathematicians discover a 13-million-digit prime number |
| The mathematicians have found the first verified Mersenne prime number
with more than 10 million digits, putting them in line to win a
six-digit prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (read more..) |
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May 14, 2008
More students opt to give back through teaching |
Backpacking in Europe? Nah, the dollar's too weak -- and for some, the needs closer to home are too great.
More
than ever, graduating college seniors are signing up to spend two years
in America's poorest communities as part of Teach for America, a
nonprofit organization that recruits and trains top college students
for teaching jobs.
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March 12, 2007
Allure of 3.14 draws fans to admire pi |
| This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable
simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and
devotion, and grand gestures. (read more..) |
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September 03, 2006
How I Did on the SAT |
In 2003 I
predicted dire consequences from a massive test redesign. What I got right--and
wrong. By John Cloud
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July 03, 2006
Success in Mathematics |
Tips on how to study mathematics,
how to approach problem-solving,
how to study for and take tests,
and when and how to get help. (read more..) |
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