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www.philipbrocoum.com Using OJ Simpson as an example, I introduce conditional probability.

Five-year-olds can reason about the world from multiple perspectives simultaneously, according to a new theory by researchers in Japan and Australia. Using an established branch of mathematics called Category Theory, the researchers explain why specific reasoning skills develop in children at certain ages, particularly at age five. The new theory shows that these reasoning skills have similar profiles of development because they involve related sorts of processes.

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At least a dozen Alberta high-school calculus classrooms were exposed to the West Nile virus recently. Luckily, it wasn’t literally the illness. Educators used the virus as a theoretical tool when they designed materials for use in an advanced high-school math course.

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Scientists expect a new mathematical model of chronic wound healing could replace intuition with clear guidance on how to test treatment strategies in tackling a major public-health problem. The researchers are the first to publish a mathematical model of an ischemic wound — a chronic wound that heals slowly or is in danger of never healing because it is fed by an inadequate blood supply.

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A team of scientists have demonstrated — for the first time — that mathematical models created from data obtained by DNA microarrays, can be used to correctly predict previously unknown cellular mechanisms. This brings biologists a step closer to one day being able to understand and control the inner workings of the cell as readily as NASA engineers plot the trajectories of spacecraft today.

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