Will is an out-and-out Einstein-level math whiz.
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Mr. MONTY NEILL (Co-Director, National Center for Fair and Open Testing): While scores have tended to go up on NAEP at grade four--and in math they went up fairly solidly for a while--they've now leveled out.
Green, who trained as a nuclear engineer at UC-Berkeley, started out doing fractal math to model ecological risk across huge biological systems such as the rainforest.
While I was governor, I was proud that our fourth-graders came out number one of all 50 states in English and then also in math, and our eighth-graders number one in English and also in math.
Boston schools, for example, scored 237 out of 500 on fourth-grade math, a 17-point jump since 2003.
Boys have traditionally out-performed their female classmates in math competitions, normally one-shot, timed events in which students are pitted against each other on equations.
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Over the past decade, Illinois suffered the third highest loss of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math-related) jobs in the nation, barely beating out Delaware and Michigan.
There, over tea and fruit, Sami ul-Haq pointed out that teachers at the school offer math, social studies and English in addition to religious studies.
He's a one-parent-household-ADHD misfit who scored 800 on his math SATs, dropped out of Caltech and never learned to shave or tie his tie properly.
Parents spend sleepless nights trying to rearrange schedules to get out of Mr. Bleh's fourth-period math class.
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Less than half of Providence fourth-graders are deemed proficient in reading and math, and roughly one third of city students will drop out of high school.
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