High-School Student Invents New Math Tactic
By AAN Staff
july 9, 2003 05:48 pm
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.