During my visits to several schools in villages and nearby semi-urban areas, I encountered a troubling contradiction at the ...

For generations, Indian students have learnt it simply as the Pythagoras Theorem. In a quiet but significant shift, the Class 8 NCERT mathematics textbook has now introduced it as the ...

NCERT's revised Class 8 math textbook renames the Pythagoras Theorem to credit Baudhayana. The book aims to reduce rote learning by linking concepts like percentages and fractals to Indian history, ...

The textbook uses examples from Indian monuments and cultural contexts to explain key concepts of the subject, including Baudhayana’s theorem on right-angled triangles ...

For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Known as the Pythagorean Theorem, this ...

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IT may not be generally known that the Theorem of Pythagoras, Euclid I. 47, is closely connected with the Theory of Repeating Patterns in space of two dimensions. The simplest proof by dissection of ...

Born in Leeds, Joe finished his Spanish degree in 2018 before becoming an English teacher to football (soccer) players and managers, as well as collaborating with various football media outlets in ...

Hundreds of years before a Greek scholar outlined his proof of the Pythagorean theorem, ancient Chinese scholars proved it using just 17 characters, a renowned Chinese mathematician highlighted in a ...

All right. It's time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I'm joined by the show's dynamic duo, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hey, ladies. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: ...