HOW TO COUNT CARDS
By: Rufus S.

SIXERS: A COOL MATH GAME
By: Justin H.
Black Jack is a fairly basic card game played with one to eight standard 52-card decks. Cards 2-10 are worth their face value. Kings, queens, and jacks are worth 10, and aces...
In math class, we played a game called Sixers.  In this game, a person has six spaces in a vertical line.  A pair of dice is rolled and then the people playing must calculate the product...

FLIPPING COINS
By: Cecelia M.

Problem: You are given 241 coins that consist of 117 heads and 124 tails. You are blindfolded and need to find a way to split the heads evenly into two piles...

THE BIRTHDAY PROBLEM
By: Sam H.

In school, the infinite number of creative ways to understand problems is smothered in the small amount of time that we have to learn. This, I assume, has led to teaching the methods...

ARE SELF DRIVING CARS READY FOR THE REAL WORLD?
By: Ivan F.

THE PRICE WE PAY TO SLEEP AT NIGHT
By: George B.

I just graduated from the Packer Collegiate Institute and decide to take a gap year to make a little money for my college life. I have 1,000 dollars and all of my friends/connections of high school... 

2015, YEAR OF THE BLACK HOLE
By: Aidan A.

​2015 was a massively important year for an even more massive topic: black holes. In 1916, Albert Einstein, working out of a German patent office, published a landmark...

BRISTLEMOUTH FISH
By: Theo E.
​Self-driving cars seem like the future of transportation, but when I came across an article called “Driverless Cars Are Too Polite,” I wondered how ready the technology...
Recently, scientists have found that a specific kind of fish outnumbers any other vertebrate on our planet with numbers reaching above the trillions. Bristlemouths, otherwise known...

SECRETS OF THE ANCIENTS IN DNA
By: Ethan N.

This article is about how DNA technology has advanced tremendously in the past couple of decades. Just 20 years ago, DNA technology was nearly non-existent, finding...

OUR MANIFEST DESTINY IN THE TWILLIGHT ZONE
By: Reese K.

The New York Times science synopsis, Fish by the Trillions in the Twilight Zone, explains the phenomenon that is the bristlemouth fish. This fish, which might claim the title of Earth's most...

AN AGE OF RESISTANCE
​By: Katie P.

Carl Zimmer’s New York Times article, In Ancient DNA, Evidence of Plague Much Earlier Than Known, discusses the origin and progression of ravaging epidemics and some of their resulting...

A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PACKER BOYS VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM
By: Victor A.

The 2015-16 Packer boys varsity basketball returned to former glory this year, a comeback that was two years in the making. With an in-league record of 8-4 (wins-losses), an out of league record of 11-0, and a 5-1...

FRACTALS IN NATURE
By: Sasha M.

A fractal can be both a natural phenomena and a mathematical set that shows a repeating pattern. These patterns are complex and reoccur over different scales. The same type of...
HIGH SCHOOL COMES
By: The First Graders
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In the fall, the AT Bio class teamed up with the Leaping Lizards to conduct research...
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