Australian experts found Quebec’s 3-tier school system worsens segregation and leaves many students behind, an example not to follow. But if they had looked deeper, the gap between Quebec’s English & French sectors would have been even more shocking.
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Why do we always solve for X in algebra? 🤔 Turns out, it’s all because of a translation mistake!
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150 years ago, a Russian girl slept in a bedroom wallpapered with pages from a calculus textbook. She grew up to become the first woman professor of mathematics in Northern Europe. 🎓✨
Watch Sofia Kovalevskaya's inspiring story here: youtu.be/zNvRc5-sxEw
1/ In the early 2000s, a young graduate student at Harvard began mapping a mathematical universe that defies intuition. Her name was Maryam Mirzakhani, and she would go on to become the first woman to win the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor.
6/ Mirzakhani’s story is one of brilliance, perseverance, and unfinished dreams. But her mathematical legacy continues to grow, inspiring new breakthroughs and illuminating the unimaginable.
1/ Just finished an awesome read by Yue and colleagues that dives into a groundbreaking method for generating complex math questions using a mix of AI and human input! 🤖✏️ The team developed a system
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4/ They also tackled an interesting problem involving a pattern of beads in a bracelet, adjusting it from a sequence of 20 beads to just 6, which turned out to be more elegant yet challenging for models.
5/ If you’re into how AI can innovate education or just love a good brain teaser, this paper is a must-read!
Yue, H., Didolkar, M., Jiang, L., & Others. (2024). Enhancing Mathematics Question Generation with AI and Human Collaboration.