Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><a href="https://www.nola.com/news/education/st-marys-academy-charles-barkley-donation/article_802b8d5e-6ae4-11ef-8882-0b48ce188fbb.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nola.com/news/education/st-mar</span><span class="invisible">ys-academy-charles-barkley-donation/article_802b8d5e-6ae4-11ef-8882-0b48ce188fbb.html</span></a></p><p>Old news with a current news twist:</p><p>"Two high school students have proved the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pythagoreantheorem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pythagoreantheorem</span></a> in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought was impossible: using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trigonometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trigonometry</span></a>.</p><p>Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, both at St. Mary’s Academy in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewOrleans</span></a>, announced their achievement last month at an American Mathematical Society meeting."</p><p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2-high-school-students-prove-pythagorean-theorem-heres-what-that-means/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/2-high-school-students-prove-pythagorean-theorem-heres-what-that-means/</span></a></p><p>The twist:</p><p>the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/basketball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>basketball</span></a> legend <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CharlesBarkley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharlesBarkley</span></a> gave their school $1M for it</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a></p>