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A math professor explains how he prepares future teachers to use poetry in their math instruction.
In the past, maths teaching has focussed on procedures and right answers. Today, teachers want students to form connections between concepts and solve problems.
School students can fall behind for many reasons. From missing school to learning difficulties and problems at home.
How did the letter x get its enduring role as a symbol of the unknown? A mathematician explains why it’s hard to say for sure.
Statistics show how a change of approach by England’s team marks a dramatic break with the history of Test cricket.
Many of the amino acids that make up proteins are encoded by genetic material in more than one way. An information theorist explains how principles of nature may account for this variance.
Math is more than memorizing times tables and doing homework problems. It is woven into more aspects of your life than you might think.
Any activity that you and your child enjoy can be educational, sometimes with just small tweaks.
College students can benefit from not taking math courses in their freshman year, new research shows.
A new screening programme will increase five-year survival for people with lung cancer. But here’s what that really means.
A new analysis of standardized test scores from elementary schools in Michigan pinpoints when during the pandemic students fell most behind.
In 1993, a British mathematician solved a centuries-old problem. But he couldn’t have done it without the help of many other mathematicians, both historical and modern.
Our research found a multi-million pound scheme to boost maths learning was under-used and had minimal impact on practice.
The arrangement of leaves on most plants follows a mathematical pattern – new research sheds light on how it evolved.
Conventional mathematical approaches to help us make decisions have key flaws.
Swedish mathematician Per Enflo famously received a live goose for settling a difficult unsolved problem. Has he done it again?
From ‘slacking’ to ‘stalling’, ‘faking’ and ‘mimicking’, students use a wide variety of behaviours to avoid doing their maths lessons.
Integrated computing enables teachers to incorporate basic programming skills into K-12 students’ regular math, science and language arts classes.
We found you can have too much of a good thing - psychological stimulation.
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Laureate Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle
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PhD; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (retired) and Research Fellow, University of California, Davis
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Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, (currently CEO and Senior Vice President of the PETRA Group), University of Nottingham
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Florida
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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PhD Candidate, Australian National University
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Professor of Mathematics, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Mathematician, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Lecturer, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Acting Director of Research, Reader in Global Development, Newcastle University
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Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
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