As the school year ends, many students will be only too happy to see math classes in their rearview mirrors.
It may seem to some of us non-mathematicians that geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form of torture, so imagine our amazement when we heard two high school seniors had proved a mathematical puzzle that was thought to be impossible for 2,000 years.
Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem, a problem that stumped the math world for centuries
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-come-up-with-trigonometry-proof-for-…
In the early 1980s, Jaime Escalante becomes a mathematics teacher at James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. The school is full of Latino students from working-class families whose academic achievement is far below their grade level. Two students, Angel, and another gangster, arrive late and question Escalante's authority. Escalante demonstrates how to multiply numbers using one's fingers and appeals to the students' sense of humor. After class, some gangsters threaten Escalante. After school, he stops the gangsters from fighting. He then introduces himself as a "one-man gang" with the classroom as his domain. Escalante tells the students that he has decided to teach the students algebra.
https://youtu.be/iGsRrxwqYWU?si=_WEOW3er2qBYo_SO STAND AND DELIVER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZAtJkuu8Cc