Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson surprised the math world when, as seniors in high school, they produced innovative solutions to a 2,000-year-old puzzle.
A high school math teacher at St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans, Michelle Blouin Williams, was looking for ingenuity when she and her colleagues set a school-wide math contest with a challenging bonus question. That bonus question asked students to create a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem, a fundamental principle of geometry, using trigonometry.
They got a commendation from the governor and keys to the city of New Orleans. Calcea and Ne'Kiya said they think there's several reasons why people found their work so impressive. 'Probably because we're African American, one,' Ne'Kiya said. 'And we're also women. So I think-- oh, and our age. Of course our ages probably played a big part.
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