High-School Student Invents New Math Tactic

july 9, 2003  05:48 pm
High-School Student Invents New Math Tactic
Lizzie Seagle has mathematicians in a tizzy over her method for solving the dreaded quadratic equation. "That’s frickin' amazing," her math teacher, Jennifer Newman, said when Seagle told struggling class mates her simple method for solving the knotty equations. The "Lizzie method" may become the new standard for factoring quadratics, but the real Lizzie says she more of a "drama person" than a math whiz, Ronit Feldman writes in Metro Times.