Math Semi-Current Event #2:Math Professor Solves Decades-Old Problem!

Although this is quite an old article, it is still very interesting. It is about a college professor, Steven Hofmann, at the the University of Missouri-Columbia. And how he solved a 40 year old math problem that none of his colleagues could solve. He said that he would think about the problem night and day and sometimes have to stop what he was doing to write down an idea on how to solve it. The name of the problem was Kato's Conjecture, named after Tosio Kato. He wrote it in 1953 and again in 1961. "The problem, known as Kato's Conjecture, applies to the theory of waves moving through different media, such as seismic waves traveling through different types of rock".

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Math Current Event #1:NECAP Math Scores Fall Short!

This aticle was about eleventh grade math grades on the NECAP in New England. It says that nearly forty-five percent are "substantially below proficient. These results were just released publicly on February 21, 2008. This was the first year this age of students had to take the NECAP. The elementary and middle school students had to take this test for the past three years. The students were also tested in reading writing. These tests were done to test the No Studnets Left Behind campaine. Out of the fifteen-thousand-five-hundred-forty-six students that took the test, seven-thousand-twenty-six scored at the bottom and only two-hundred-forty-four ranked at the top level. To end on a positive note, writing and reading scores were much better.

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