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· Ryan General
Teen Math Whiz to Receive a Master’s Degree Before Even Finishing High School
A 17-year-old high school senior will be receiving her Master’s degree even before she gets her high school diploma a month from now. Stephanie Mui will receive her Master of Science degree in mathematics at George Mason University on Saturday, making her the university’s…
· Ryan General
Australia’s Best Math Teacher is a Super Fly Asian Man
An Asian-Australian math teacher’s unique teaching style has turned him into Australia’s favorite high school teacher. Co-head mathematics teacher Eddie Woo, whose parents migrated to Australia in the early 1970s, has been teaching at Cherrybrook Technology High School in Sydney…
· Max Chang
Overachiever Tells Asian Mom She ‘Failed’ Her Math Test, Gets a Beautiful Reply
When I was in middle school, my mother was eager to know how I did on an important math test. When I called her that I had failed the test, she was waiting for me at home with a feather duster ready to unleash her wrath on me. It was a beautiful beating and she beat me with all…
· King Malleta
Ruthless Father Dangles Son Over River For Not Doing His Math Homework
A father from China definitely went over the top with his strategy for how to effectively tutor a child. The merciless father from Meishan in Sichuan province came under attack after a video of him dangling his son over a river went viral. Many people would assume that the…
· Ryan General
Hong Kong’s Teenage Math Prodigy Becomes UCLA Professor
March Tian Boedihardjo is an 18-year-old, Hong Kong-born, Indonesian-Chinese genius who recently finished his doctorate program to become an associate professor of Math at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The young prodigy, who began his university education at…
· Editorial Staff
Professor Sues UIC For Forcing Him to Teach Math Because He’s Asian
Seung-Whan Choi, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is suing the school for years of discrimination, including being forced to teach statistics despite not being qualified. Choi, a Korean-born international relations professor in the department of…
· Ryan General
New Study Proves That Asians are the Grandmasters of Math and Science
Five Asian countries dominated the young students’ global rankings for math and science, with Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Chinese Taipei, and Japan leading the rest of the world, a global study has revealed. Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), an…
· Carl Samson
The ‘World’s Hottest Math Teacher’ is in Malaysia and People Are Freaking Out
A math teacher has driven the internet wild when her classroom video surfaced online. A photo posted by •Oksana Neveselaya• (@o_neveselaya) on Oct 4, 2016 at 9:01am PDT
· Ryan General
Woman Donates Most of Her Liver To Former Teacher Who Taught Her Math
A grateful student from Malaysia, who felt indebted to her former teacher’s kindness, gave the best gift one could ever give to someone: an extension of his life. Marie Christie Robert did not think twice on donating a part of her liver to her beloved teacher, 57-year-old Cheong…
· Ryan General
The U.S. Wins International Math Olympiad For the Second Year in a Row
The world’s brightest high school minds in Mathematics recently competed in Hong Kong with Americans again successfully demolishing its stereotype of being much worse than others at numbers. For the second year in a row, a United States high school team has emerged as the top…
· Editorial Staff
The Best Age to Get Married is 26, According to Mathematics
Mathematics has determined the magic number for marriage to be 26. The optimal age to settle down and commit to a life partner is 26. Journalist Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths, coauthors of “Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions,”…
· Editorial Staff
Watch Korean Students Take the American SAT Math Section For the First Time
In a new video by Sofla, a number of Korean students were asked how good they were at math. The subjects ranged from those who claimed they were really good at math to those who were not.
· Editorial Staff
Economics Professor Gets Profiled as a Terrorist for Doing Math on a Flight
An economics professor was temporarily removed from his flight after a fellow passenger thought he was a terrorist because of his math scribblings. Guido Menzio, a renowned University of Pennsylvania economics professor, was aboard an American Airlines flight from Philadelphia…
· Editorial Staff
A Chinese Mathematician Reveals How to Beat Anyone at Rock-Paper-Scissors
Rock-paper-scissors has been around for thousands of years. The seemingly simple hand game proves useful in randomly selecting a winning and losing player using very basic rules: rock smashes scissors, scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock. However, the game is not as simple as…
· Laura Dang
A Mathematician Has the Perfect Explanation For Why Traffic Jams Happen
Sitting in traffic is the worst way to spend Labor Day weekend. What’s even more frustrating is realizing there was no reason for a traffic jam in the first place. Why does traffic happen where there seems to be no accidents and no construction work interfering with the flow of…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Racist Comments on Asians Erupt Following Fatal High-Speed Bus Crash in NYC
Early in the morning on September 18, two buses in Queens, New York City, collided, killing three and injuring at least 19. According to ABC News, the driver of the Dahlia charter bus, Raymond Mong, was barreling through the intersection at approximately 60 mph (96.5 kph) —…
· Carl Samson
New York Startup Invents Genius Device That Detects Fake Designer Bags
A New York-based startup has created a device that can tell whether a designer bag is real or fake within minutes. The company is called Entrupy, and their device acts as a portable scanner packed with complex detection algorithms.
· Bryan Ke
Japanese Twitter User Plays ‘Despacito’ Using Two Calculators and It’s Glorious
How often do you hear someone say, “I play the calculator”? Well, now one Twitter user can after winning the Internet with his remarkable talent of playing songs using calculators. Japanese Twitter user, @zk_oj, posted several videos on his social media page that proves these…
· Kyle Encina
Monster Flood Claims Lives of Over 1,000 People in South Asia
Torrential rains in South Asia gave way to a monster flood which have already claimed the lives of over 1,000 people. Thousands of residences have been destroyed by landslides and a rising number of people are suffering from food shortages in what’s deemed as the region’s “worst…
· Carl Samson
Meet the African Woman Teaching Chinese Girls How to Code
An African woman has launched a movement in China that aims to help young girls and women learn how to code. Meet Mariéme Jamme, a Senegalese-born British businesswoman who was trafficked to prostitution as a teenager, but now stands as one of Africa’s leading female…
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