A 16-year-old German high school student has written a paper that purports to have solved two mysteries that were beyond the intellect of the great Isaac Newton.
Shouryya Ray, an Indian-born student who won second prize this month in the math and informatics category for Germany's Jugend Forscht student science competition created formulas to answer the following questions that have puzzled scientists for centuries:
How do you account for air resistance in calculating the trajectory of ball thrown out at an angle?
Precisely how does a ball thrown against the wall rebound?
Because Ray's paper was a school-based project and was submitted for a contest, it is not subject to the publication process and peer review that professional work typically goes through. That has led some experts in the field to reserve jugement of the work until they've seen it for themselves.
However, everyone who has commented about Ray's paper has said it is an achievement that very few high schoolers could duplicate.
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This week~ I want to share a project idea that might satisfy your students need for creative expression.
When finished reading a book~ I offer my students the option of creating a book hook (a mini commercial for the book). The goal of the hook is to get other children interested in reading that particular book. The project serves another purpose: it provides students with an additional outlet or assessment for demonstrating their understanding of the book.
When you give...
Just saw a wonderful version of "A Christmas Carol" at our local theater.Today, a person who is very tight with money, is often called a "scrooge", after, the main character in "A Christmas Carol". Did you know that several other words and phrases were coined by Charles Dickens?
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In the News: The passing of Nelson Mandela
Perhaps~ teachers may find the following information useful to use in their classrooms.
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Ask children about the food pyramid and the need for a balanced, healthy diet, and I would bet that many would be familiar with the concept.
Now, ask those kiddos about the need for a healthy, balanced diet for the mind, and I think you would lose them.
Recently, I have been fascinated with the work of Dr. Daniel Siegel, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA school of medicine, whose work includes the Healthy Mind Platter concept. The model proposes that in order...