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NASA uses math to ‘hear’ music of stars and track their movements for the first time

The state-of-the-art data sonification system translates pixels of celestial objects into sounds, thereby composing melodious ...
SpaceNews

NASA Adds a Physical Element to Learning Mathematics

NASA is testing an innovative approach to help improve student performance in mathematics by challenging them to solve the real-world problems involved with controlling airplanes in the sky. During ...
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Celebrate Pi Day of the Century with NASA Math Challenge

This graphic celebrating Pi Day shows NASA missions utilizing the mathematical constant pi (L to R): Mars rover Opportunity, Dawn spacecraft orbiting Ceres, Jupiter's moon Europa and Voyager ...
SpaceNews

NASA and Texas Instruments Use Human Spaceflight to Bring Math and Science Topics into High School Classrooms

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Houston Chronicle

50 schools join NASA math, science program

NASA named 50 schools throughout the country on Tuesday for a program the space agency hopes will encourage students to study science, math and technology. The schools taking part in a three-year ...
Space.com

NASA Celebrates Pi Day with Space Math Challenge

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is celebrating Pi Day (March 14) with a set of four math problems — featuring Martian craters, distant exoplanets, Saturn orbits and eclipses — to be understood ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Today’s lesson: NASA’s math whiz

Learn new things, test your understanding and practice writing skills. These lessons are provided free by Achieve3000, an educational technology company that works with schools to enhance ...
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Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematics pioneer, dies at 101

NASA mathematician and trailblazer Katherine Johnson has died at 101 years old. Johnson was among the first black women to work at the space agency as well as at its predecessor, the National Advisory ...
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The black women who did NASA’s math used to be hidden. Now the street in front of its headquarters is named for them

(CNN) — For decades, the contributions of the black, female mathematicians who helped get NASA astronauts into space stayed essentially hidden. Not anymore. Now, you’ll be reminded of what the women ...
USA Today

Hidden Figure no more: NASA honors pioneering math genius Katherine Johnson

Now the accolades are pouring in. Johnson, who along with other African-American women had to overcome racial and gender discrimination to rise through the ranks of NASA in the 1950s and ’60s, has ...
Space.com

Celebrate Pi Day of the Century with NASA Math Challenge

Who said math couldn't be fun? In honor of the Pi Day of the century, 3.1415 (March 4, 2015), NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a dizzying math challenge. Hint: every solution will use the ...