Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem, a problem that stumped math world for centuries
Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem, a problem that stumped math world for centuries
A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.
This happened a while ago, and even more uplifting is Ne'Kiya Jackson got into college by doing this!
Stumped? This [theorem]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem) is a contender for most different proofs.
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Very relevant, in combination with the click bait title.
It's insane that her first thought, in response to the question of why people were surprised, was the color of her skin, followed by her gender, and only then did she mention the thing that was probably the first thing everyone else thought of: her age.
Regardless, very impressive indeed.
Why did people find your amazing mathematical achievement amazing? Racism. Sexism... Oh yeah, also because we're young. So not because it's cool, it's hard and it's amazing? Nope, just because we happen to be black girls in school, and did this in America...
Such sadness man. Even the bit about people saying African Americans don't have the brains for it or something. Wow, it's sad.
Is it insane though
The educational system must be reformed!
So so so so many ads in that page that I genuinely lost the article in the middle, that's a first.
I didn't see a single ad, I'm using this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/I love when pages or websites have so much bloat, ads and bs that it's actually a huge effort to try and use their site, but then if you use an adblocker to actually be able to use their site, you get notices like OHH NOO YOU ARE USING AN ADBLOCK WE ARE SO SAD PLEASE DISABLE AND HELP US PAY FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM yadayada... lol please. Hypocrites. If good marketing is all about removing user friction, I don't understand why they add this much friction as ads and spam.
Why aren't you using an ad block?
How is a trig proof different than algebra or geometry proof? I'm good with numbers, but I sucked at proofs.
Trig requires some assumptions and special tools, like SOHCAHTOA and what not that don't really exist in standard algebra.
Oscar has a heap of apples.
It’s a mathematical proof, but it’s using trig inside the proof.
If you ever want a fun rabbit hole of mathematicians losing their minds, they had a massive existential crisis about calculus with “What if all of calculus is wrong!?!”, and the subsequent proof developed is one of those things that took years and likely involved a lot of amphetamines.
And here I am at 46 and I can't help my daughter with her middle school math homework.
I relearned basic math when my kids started school. I was 30. It's not too late to learn new tricks. The new math they teach makes mental math much easier.
That's fine. That just means that you're not good at Math or not good at teaching. I'm sure you're good at other things.
If there is such a thing as a learning disability for math, I definitely have it. You only were required to take one math class in college. I took finite math because I was told it was the easiest class. I squeaked by with a C. It's not that issue like with dyslexia where you see numbers switched around, I just find it all totally baffling.
what they're good at I can't say out loud
It also doesn't help that they changed math and you now need an entire sheet of paper for each problem.
It's horrifying, seeing all the things you've forgotten laid out in front of you day after day!
That’s one smart cookie
I have made my stance on nerds clear