Math
Years of slipping test results: What’s dragging down US students?
National assessment data show sustained declines in math and reading since 2012, with pandemic learning loss, chronic absenteeism, and staffing shortages identified as major factors.
Great Pyramid of Giza was built over course of 20 years, using multiple ramps, new study claims
The "math trap" of the modern welcome bonus
High Court: Israeli gov't must explain why it funds haredi schools without core studies
Prof. David Kazhdan becomes first Israeli to win the Shaw Prize
Prof. David Kazhdan is one of the great luminaries of the representation theory, his originality and knowledge are incomprehensible.
Coronavirus: Understanding it is as easy as fourth grade math
Many of us are afraid of numbers to begin with. If we add those worries to our fears of a lethal virus, we can quickly understand why restoring numerical context is essential.
Israeli all-girls math team wins silver, two bronze medals
The team is composed of silver medal winner Noga Friedman, bronze winner Nicole Grossman, bronze winner Maya Kleinshtien and Roni Hazan.
Hebrew University Professor wins Abel Prize - the 'Nobel of Math'
Professor Furstenberg survived Kristallnacht, eventually moving to Israel in 1965 and helping to establish the State as a global centre of mathematical excellence.
Israeli team invents automated method to summarize texts
With the right business partner, the patented technology solution is expected to be on the market soon.
Book review: A ‘computer’ who broke the ‘ceiling’
In ‘Reaching for the Moon,’ a NASA mathematician who broke the color barrier surveys her career
MIT and Israeli universities join forces to research STEM with new fund
The fund will grant awards of up to $30,000.
New Bedouin math project aims to reduce social gaps in math studies
The project, the first-ever Social Impact Bond (SIB) of its kind, will focus on promoting math studies as a way to decrease social inequality.
The Israeli who solved a 200-year old math equation
With the possibility of winning $1,000,000 from the Clay Mathematics Institute for solving a millennial problem, Davidi and Georgiev invite experts to read their proof and attempt to refute it.
NY teen wins $250k for his math model based on Israeli farmers' research
Using disease data and weather patterns gathered from farmers in Israel, the student was able to predict where the spores from the late blight genome would spread.
