by Jason Marshall Lets kick things off with a bit of a strange question: If you were asked to walk up two stairs and then immediately back down three, how would you describe the total number of stairs youd climbed relative to where you began? Do any

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(38) / 评论(0) 分类 数学英语

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. After water, tea is the world's most popular drink. Now three New York City high school students have discovered what maybe a bruing scandal because th

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(七)月

by Jason Marshall In the last few articles, weve talked about fractions and percentages, and soon enough well see that these ideas naturally lead us into the world of decimal numbers. But before we head down that path, lets take a quick detour to tal

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 数学英语

by Jason Marshall Todays article will walk you through the first steps of kicking your calculator dependency. This isnt something we can accomplish in a single article, so well be revisiting this topic periodically. Today, were kicking things off by

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 数学英语

by Jason Marshall In the last article, we began talking about mathematical sequencesin particular, a type of sequence known as an arithmetic sequence. Today, were going to turn our attention to another type of sequence called a geometric sequence. In

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 数学英语

by Jason Marshall In the previous article we talked about using the number line to help you keep your signs straight when adding positive and negative integers. In this article were taking things one step furthernot just adding positive and negative

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