Student Discoveries

  • October 5, 2008

    Check Out These Accomplishments

    Dr. Jim Tanton remarks, "I have been fortunate to work with students and teachers who are excited about original creative work in mathematics.Here is a list of recent articles that have been published as a result of student work."

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  • Dr. James Tanton
    August 6, 2008

    High School Math Taken to a New Level

    Alex Bishop ('08), Adam Cimpeanu (about to be a III Former!!!!) , Kyle Flood (VI Former), Alex Smith (IV Former), Geoffrey Smith (IV Former) and other attendees of the St. Mark's Institute of Mathematics extra-curricular classes are about to have their new proof of a classic theorem of mathematics appear in FOCUS the leading mathematics periodical of the Mathematical Association of America.

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  • The 12th Fold
    April 18, 2008

    Students Tie World Record!

    By Dr. Jim Tanton

    In December 2001 then high-school student Britney Gallivan broke the world record by folding a piece of paper in half 11 times, and the following year broke the record again by completing 12 folds. On March 29, 2008, fourteen St. Marker’s attempted to beat Britney’s record. The photo shows the results of the event. As you can see we did not beat Britney’s record (the 13th fold does not show a contiguous set of 8192 horizontal layers!) We only managed 12 complete folds, but this is a record of some sorts – we did it with paper, not gold leaf.

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