Student invents new math process

(EXCERPT) by Mike Wallace Aeronautical Systems Center Public Affairs

11/18/2003 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Killie
Rick found a new solution to subtraction problems involving whole
numbers and fractions. She used the concept of negative numbers in a
way that has never been done before, as far as her seventh-grade
teacher has been able to ascertain.

The 12-year-old girl is the daughter of Terri Rick, a senior
accountin...

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