Female statistics students had higher final exam grades than their male peers, even though they had less confidence in their statistics abilities at the start of the semester.
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Research has shown for more than a century that students fall behind during the summer break. An expert offers six tips on ways to help children keep up their academic skills during the summer.
Our ability to use mathematical modelling is accelerating breakthrough discoveries in health care and biotechnology.
Mathematical model suggests information processing lies at the heart of decision making.
A mathematician explains how language can keep your online accounts safe and pinpoint your location on the planet.
Time out of school erased a year’s worth of schooling for public school learners in South Africa.
The miniature brains of honeybees were able to understand the concepts of odd and even, despite only having 960,000 neurons (compared to 86 billion in humans).
In the absence of mathematical explanations, the universe would be irrational rather than unpredictable.
The brain can count small numbers or compare large ones. But it struggles to understand the value of a single large number. This fact may be influencing how people react to numbers about the pandemic.
A focus on raw intellectual talent may unintentionally create a cutthroat workplace culture. New research suggests women’s preference to avoid that environment may contribute to gender gaps in some fields.
Pi has spawned its own literary style, where the number of letters in consecutive words is dictated by the decimal expansion of pi.
A new database could pave the way for a more fair and consistent way to score slam dunks, a self-described ‘dunk scientist’ says.
A scholar warns that women will continue to be underrepresented in STEM careers unless educators focus on helping girls do better in advanced math courses in high school.
Colleges don’t have to sit by and watch STEM majors leave for other fields. Two Ph.D. biology students share tips for encouraging students to stick with STEM despite the difficulty involved.
Compared to people who aren’t as good at math, people who are better at math are more happy when they have high incomes and less happy when they have lower incomes.
I’m a mathematician whose hobby is origami. It has inspired mathematicians to solve problems once thought impossible, and create folding telescope lenses, airbags and solar panels.
People who struggle with numbers are also likely to struggle in life, new research shows.
Everyone is raving about Adele’s new album ‘30.’ A mathematician muses about the “Adele sequence”: the patterns of numbers in her album name.
Machine learning systems can now aid human intuition to create mathematical conjectures and proofs.
Did humans invent mathematics or does it exist independently?
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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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Professor of Computer Science and Provost/CEO/PVC, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Florida
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PhD Candidate, Australian National University
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Professor of Mathematics, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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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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Mathematics Education Primary and Secondary PGCE, Newcastle University
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Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer, Monash University
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Professor, Faculty of IT, Monash University
