Math Trek

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Extra Time, Math, and the SAT

Extra time on the math portion of the SAT helps the most able students the most.

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Counting on Fibonacci

Fibonacci numbers and their relationships can be visualized in terms of tilings.

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Progressive Primes

Prime numbers have all sorts of remarkable and mysterious properties. Evenly divisible only by themselves and 1, primes can’t be written as the product of smaller positive integers. There are infinitely many of them, and they appear to be scattered somewhat haphazardly among the whole numbers. It’s not yet known if there are infinitely many […]

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Anatomy of a Bead Creature

Beadwork offers a novel view of hyperbolic geometry.

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From Number Puzzles to Automata

A high school student plays with numbers and does an award-winning project elucidating the link between automata and divisibility.

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Riding on Square Wheels

A square wheel can roll smoothly if it travels over a roadway of the right geometric shape.

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Pinpointing Killer Asteroids

Two award-winning high school students' projects focused on new methods for pinpointing asteroids locations.

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Deriving the Structure of Numbers

A novel mathematical function called the number derivative offers new insights into the structure of integers.

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Mapping Scientific Frontiers

Can computer visualization help identify turning points and milestones in scientific discovery?

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Mining the Tagged Web

IBM's WebFountain project gathers and annotates Web content on a vast scale to serve as a platform for data miners.

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Heads or Tails?

Research interest in the fairness of coin tosses goes back many years.

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Sculpting with a Twist

There’s more than one way to slice a bagel. A bagel (or a doughnut) can serve as a physical model for a mathematical surface called a torus. You can slice it horizontally (or longitudinally) so that you end up with two halves, each containing a hole. That’s great for making sandwiches because the cut exposes […]