Many professional mathematicians share a surprisingly similar point-of-origin story about the reasons they chose to pursue mathematics. They were encouraged by an elementary, middle, or high school ...

Elgin Community College hosted its largest-ever Math Integration Contest on Dec. 5. For the first time, dual-credit students from local high schools joined ECC students in the competition, ...

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in Memphis, raised $15-million last year with its annual “math-a-thon,” a nationwide competition for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The hospital ...

How hard are the contest’s math problems? Here is one example of a math problem students may face in a Noetic Learning Math Contest: The product of two integers is 1,000. Neither of the integers ...

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. — Inside the Kehr Union Ballroom on Commonwealth University's Bloomsburg campus, high school students from 18 area schools in the area put on their thinking caps and solve math ...

The International Math Olympiad (IMO) is a brainy battleground where the world’s most talented teenage mathematicians wrestle with devilishly difficult math problems. It’s long been considered a ...

Student Who Wowed China in Alibaba Math Contest Got Help From Teacher, Organizers Say A vocational school student in China who wowed the public in June by finishing near the top in the preliminary ...

NORWALK — As Apostoli Mano marched toward the front of his school’s library, he smiled ear to ear, waving to his mother who took pictures and proudly cheered him on. The fourth-grader was one of 55 ...

Try solving this: Let x and y be positive real numbers with x³ + y³ = x – y. Prove that x² + 4y² < 1. Uh, right. Four very smart South Bay students will tackle similar problems this weekend in Central ...

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