Kirn students learn nuts, bolts of cybersecurity through club

Students learn algebra in school because simple calculations in everyday life rely on those skills, such as determining how many Democratic delegates to award in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.

Want proof? For a Democratic candidate with x supporters in a precinct with C caucus-goers, the number of delegates D are assigned by the formula f(x) = [(x·D)/C]. Or, adding an element of probability, as happened Monday in a precinct in Ames and a few other places across the state, a coin toss could be a determining factor.

Algebra, though, is just one of many academic subjects important to understanding the modern world. Technology has increasingly grown in importance, and schools in Iowa are now looking at how to make programming as critical a component of an education as algebra and literary devices and the life cycle of an organism. For the full article click here 

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