Kaine Seeks $79.5 Million for Education Washington Post
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine proposed increases in state funding yesterday to raise teacher pay, expand publicly funded preschool and help students struggling with reading and mathematics.
[Opinion] Korea’s Science Stars donga.com
Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman disappeared after posting a proof of the “Poincare conjecture,” one of the Millennium Prize Problems, on the web in 2003. He gained more fame for being awarded and declining the Fields Medal, called a “Nobel Prize in Mathematics,” this year.
UGA researchers to study link between teacher professional development, student achievement EurekAlert!
Three University of Georgia education researchers will study how mathematics teachers understand professional development, how that impacts their understanding of mathematics and what difference that makes to student learning.
PASeries Tests Aligned to Learning Goals in Growing Number of States Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
IOWA CITY, Iowa----Pearson Education announced today that PASeries® , its award-winning formative assessment product line, is aligned to mathematics standards in a rapidly growing number of states, allowing teachers, administrators and parents to use the test results to forecast student performance on statewide assessments.
The Mayan Calendar Portal Answers Apocalypto's Call for a New Beginning Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
NEW YORK----Topping Hollywood box office charts at $15 million after its debut weekend, Mel Gibson's action film Apocalypto is attracting passionate opinions from all sides of the long-standing debate about the demise of the ancient Mayan civilization.
Can we detect asteroid impacts with rocky extrasolar planets? The Space Review
Caution: This article contains speculation, ballpark estimates, mathematics, and tables! Sixty-five million years ago a chunk of rock and ice perhaps 15 kilometers across collided with the Earth and wiped out many creatures, including the dinosaurs.
Genome DNA research enlists numbers crunchers International Herald Tribune
Thirty years ago, Nick Patterson worked for the code-breaking British agency that unscrambles intercepted messages. Today, at 59, he is tackling perhaps the toughest code of all — the human genome.
Ohio Awards $110 Million Graduation Test Contract to DRC PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Data Recognition Corporation , in conjunction with the American Institutes for Research , was selected by the state of Ohio to deliver a seven-year, $110 million contract for high school testing beginning in December of 2006.
PLATO Learning, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 Results FinanzNachrichten
PLATO Learning, ( Nachrichten ) Inc. (NASDAQ:TUTR), a leading provider of K – adult computer-based and e-learning solutions, today announced orders for its fourth quarter ended October 31, 2006, totaling $25.7 million, compared to $33.1 million for the same period in 2005, a decline of 22%. Orders for subscription courseware products, which are the foundation of the Company ' s new product
A numbers game Times Leader
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Like many high-schoolers, John Hagen’s algebra students worry about passing.

TIME.com: Mathematics for the Millions -- Jul 1, 1946 -- Page 1
If Premier Ferenc Nagy and his fellow Cabinet members had paid their return trip from New York to London in Hungarian currency, it would have cost them
Million Dollar Math - Discover Magazine - science news articles
Every area of mathematics has unsolved mysteries, and every so often complexity theory, will net its finder a million dollars from the Clay.
Clay Mathematics Institute
Official version of the million dollar open problem in Theoretical Computer Science by the Clay Mathematical Institute.
Lancelot Hogben, author
Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers, first published in England in 1937, with later revised editions up till
The Mathematics of Monkeys and Shakespeare
What follows is an in-depth discussion of the mathematics of the situation -- it's very long, but interesting, I think.
One Thousand Teachers, One Million Minds
develop a workforce with the knowledge and critical skills required by an economy becoming increasingly reliant on science, engineering and mathematics.
1 Matematica 1 Mathematics
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1 Matematica 1 Mathematics
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Department of Energy - New DOE Program Funds $20 Million for
New DOE Program Funds $20 Million for Mathematics Research. WASHINGTON, DC – Under a new program funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science,
Stevanovich’s $7 million gift provides home for financial mathematics
The only research center in the nation, if not the world, devoted to financial mathematics has received a $7 million gift from Steve G. Stevanovich, mathematics+million: , , , , mathematics+million