Math
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MathHitting streaks spread success
For baseball players who want to increase their batting success, a new study offers this tip: Get on a team with a slugger.
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MathCool Jobs: Math as entertainment
At DreamWorks Animation (and previously at another company called Digital Domain) Nafees Bin Zafar creates software used to make the special effects in motion pictures — and sometimes cartoons — look as realistic as possible.
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MathShuffling shenanigans
A magician-turned-mathematician figures out how many times to shuffle a deck of cards before playing Old Maid
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ComputingTroubles with Hubble
Just before a planned repair mission, the space telescope went quiet.
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MathMath and our number sense
Not all math skills are learned in the classroom. Some of them come naturally.
By Susan Gaidos -
MathPlay for Science
Computer scientists are developing programs to win popular games. In the process, they are developing solutions for other, more serious, puzzles.
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MathMath Naturals
Kindergartners can solve relatively complex addition and subtraction problems if allowed to use their intuitive grasp of approximate quantities.
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MathMath of the World
There's math in Native American beadwork, African fabrics, modern music, and even cornrow hairstyles.
By Emily Sohn