Again, anything: math problem sets, laundry, cleaning dishes, speaking in front of an audience.
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The project, built by Global Thermostat, looked like a very high-tech elevator or an awfully expensive math problem.
About a year ago, they converted it into a Math problem and put it into a game called Foldit.
With the current federal prison system at 39% over capacity, what we are now faced with is a math problem.
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To solve our math problem, science, technology, engineering and math professions need to be attractive and welcoming to all talent pools.
Or a child can gesture a relationship between two items in a math problem before that child can articulate that relationship in words.
Middle school, diversity rules, role models and new media tools--that is how we in America's business community can help address our national math problem.
For example, it once launched a recruiting campaign based on a billboard with a complex math problem that it posted along a Silicon Valley highway.
Starting at 11 a.m. tomorrow, Ford Engineers will post a math problem on reddit, with new questions arriving every 3 minutes and 14 seconds.
The most daunting problem for Google, however, is a math problem.
You can only use a spatula to flip a top section of pancakes, and the math problem is to sort the stack in as few flips as possible.
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Bernard Johnson is a trucker and a math problem.
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"It's a math problem for me: We need to raise money and stop expenses and I can't believe we can't raise money in New York City, " said sophomore Diego Gonzalez, 19, a student council member and architecture student.
But the ability to turn that switch on and off perfectly for others is a little like being able to walk a tightrope, chew gum, talk on the phone and solve a math problem at the same time.
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Back in 2002, Agrawal and two of his graduate students attained hero status by solving a math problem that folks had been working on since the ancient Greeks: How to tell for sure if a number is prime relatively quickly, without having to check all possible factors of the number.
Since the study also claims that individual intelligence have no relevance at all to the group intelligence, does it mean a group with none of member within it can solve a specific math or physics problem can all of a sudden miraculously be able to solve the problem by providing at least three women?
And on the same token, if I was to introduce this same math and physics problem to a group where with only men with at least one of the member that is actually smart enough to solve the problem on his own will no longer able to solve the same problem under a team situation?
The lesson, to Mandelbrot, is obvious: Go with the math that matches the problem, even if it seems strange.
Living Maths gives young children fun problem-solving activities like bingo, math shows, that form the basis of learning math when they get older.
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The Knicks' Carmelo problem will also manifest itself in pure math: Anthony takes 18.8 shots per game and is known for wanting the ball in his hands.
The mayor of Shanghai, China -- a city of over 20 million people -- told me that even in such a large city, they had no problem recruiting teachers in whatever subject, but particularly math and science, because teaching is revered and the pay scales are comparable to professions like doctors.
But there is a problem: While our fourth-graders outperform their peers in other countries in math and science, our eighth-graders are around average, and our 12th-graders rank near the bottom.
The problem with his case was that he had prepared the return and the deficiency was from a math error.
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