Joshua Yoon, of Chicago, says he’s only the third 12-year-old in 21 years to accomplish this feat.
Plus, more of the week’s top education news.
YouTube personality and self-proclaimed “mathemusician” Vi Hart is arguing that Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants does not live in an actual pineapple—and she’s made a video to prove it.
Sesame Street is debuting a new curriculum this season, and it’s designed to help tots build essential skills in science and math.
Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released today show that while students have made slight gains in math in the past two years, performance in reading remains largely unchanged.
As the Stevie Wonder title implies, today’s links showcase sweet, sensational, and smelly happenings in the world’s cities.
A recent study reveals that ants can complete mathematical tasks at a high level, leading the study’s publisher to conclude the species may be smarter than your average fifth grader. Apparently, that’s the control group for all measures of cognition these days.
Could Einstein’s Theory of Relativity be a few mathematical equations away from being disproved? Jacob Barnett of Hamilton County, Ind., who is just weeks shy of his 13th birthday, thinks so. And, he’s got the solutions to prove it.
March 14 marks the annual celebration of Pi Day, a holiday that pays tribute to the mathematical constant most of us were introduced to in middle school geometry.
Start the week out right with a link-filled energy boost.
