As soon as people leave school, many leave maths behind happily. So much of our daily maths problems are tackled with the help of computers anyway- working out the total cost of your shopping, how ...
Problem 6 is all about sequences and finding missing information. Maths teacher Chris Smith and pupils from Grange Academy are here to explain. The Maths Week Scotland Daily Challenges have been set ...
A mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to solve. The equations are fundamental to maths as well as science, where they have broad applications ...
Are you ready to really test your maths skills? You might consider yourself a bit of a pro when it comes to addition or multiplication, but how do you fare when it comes to working out number ...
A number sequence has gone viral on the internet this week, reading: 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, ?. At first glance, it looks easy, but once people start solving it, they realize spotting the pattern is not so ...
We all know Múinteoir John loves maths! He is mad for the numbers. But do you who loves maths even more than Múinteoir John? Nature! Yes, that's right, Nature loves maths! Now that sounds like a ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the early 2010s, an experiment asked 21 four-year-old children to look at a screen and select one of two ...
A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, such ...