Nowadays banks are making the math a little bit harder, since 0% transfer fees are becoming much less common.
"Peasants are more sophisticated these days, " says Wang Qin, a math teacher in a Hubei village school.
Amend works with a preteen who is taking a math class at a local university on topics more advanced than calculus.
But a big attraction is the 57-year-old Yau himself: He's the leading Chinese mathematician and ranks among the top ten in the world, says Phillip Griffiths, a math professor and a former president of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
There are many fundraising products for many good causes, Kors said, but choose a watch and it's simple math: a direct formula that it's 100 meals per watch as a conversation starter.
Figuring out what will happen to the universe isn't a new area of research, but the math becomes a lot more telling once you have the approximate mass of the Higgs boson.
Nowadays, companies use "more of a math equation, " a former executive said.
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Berezovsky began his working life as a math professor and then a systems analyst, according to CNN's Jill Dougherty, who interviewed him many times.
If I cite a math major who did wonderful math work after attending a state school is that reason enough to increase subsidies for mathematics?
He proved himself something of a math prodigy, earning a scholarship to study the economics of raw material extraction at the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute.
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At Manor, a history teacher might get together with a math teacher and develop a project about the impact of castles on world history and the engineering behind building castles.
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Sony offers up a couple of possible examples, including a crudely scribbled map, a basic math equation and a drawing of a cup of coffee, all of which ship with the device like those pictures of happy families that come with department store picture frames.
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Aimed at children between the ages of eight and 12, the projects inside each package teach a basic lesson in science, technology, engineering or math through a hands-on experience.
The last member of the group, a slight, nervous-seeming man with a grey goatee had retired this past summer after 40 years of teaching math in a Fort Worth high school.
The same is true for a feature called the Skill Selector, which lets parents adjust the types of math problems a child will see in games.
Morris, a math teacher who flirted with a job as an actuary before he climbed the coaching ladder, almost certainly wouldn't be doing what he is doing if not for Malzahn.
Berezovsky began his working life as a math professor and then became a systems analyst who switched to more lucrative jobs in post-Soviet Russia, said CNN's Jill Dougherty, who interviewed him many times.
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Likewise, if you strive to complete a number of math problems in a designated amount of time, you'll do a better job than if you try for a lower number or you just tell yourself to work hard.
Ballmer won a scholarship to a prestigious private day school, scored a perfect 800 on his math SATs and graduated Harvard with a BA in math and economics.
As you can imagine, this involves some extraordinarily complicated math and a lot of computing power.
Boston schools, for example, scored 237 out of 500 on fourth-grade math, a 17-point jump since 2003.
Which makes sense because Kavanaugh has brought science and math to a world previously dominated by art and gut.
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About a year ago, they converted it into a Math problem and put it into a game called Foldit.
If you do the math, a larger iPhone just seems like a plus!
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Tao, a math celebrity of sorts, has a page-long list of rules on his faculty Web site prescribing how he likes to be contacted.
You do the math: a private jet makes sense if it saves you x amount of time and your time is valued at y.
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The notion that math is a male skill is a persistent mindset, from elementary education to the career paths men and women take in adulthood.
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Math is a useful descriptor of both real and fictional concepts.
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