Karen Ge of Naperville has run the math competition circuit for six years. The Naperville North High School junior has advanced from local to regional to national tournaments, become an Illinois state ...
It doesn’t seem funny enough to draw raucous laughter from a classroom of students at American Heritage School in Plantation, but you have to know the context. Junior Connor Gordon went to the board, ...
Carnegie Vanguard High School Sophomore Arnav Adhikari said that the typical math he learns in school is dull and boring. That’s why he wrote his own textbook. Titled the CUBRONIX Competitive Math ...
ST. GEORGE – After 30 years of managing a classroom and 22 years of coaching a competitive math team, Teri Hospodarksy, a Desert Hills Middle School math teacher, is in her final months of teaching as ...
Nous Research's open-source Nomos 1 AI model scored 87/120 on the notoriously difficult Putnam math competition, ranking second among 4,000 human contestants with just 30 billion parameters.
Most of the training for high-level math competitions happens outside of regular school hours, as I wrote recently. But at least one teacher in Florida has found a way around that—and it’s paid off to ...
Buchholz High School senior Ellen Li is the first local student to place at MIT’s highly competitive Math Prize for Girls tournament. Over the weekend, she traveled to Boston with six other Buchholz ...
When I was in the fifth grade, Fridays always meant math drills. Our teacher stood over us with a stopwatch in one hand and a gym whistle in the other. At the first piercing blast, we would rush to ...