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The questions in the NAPLAN numeracy tests are often years behind the level of mathematics students following the curriculum are studying that year.
On top of teaching them how to recognize numbers and count to 10, make sure they’re playing with puzzles.
Many college students take math classes they’ve already taken in high school. Why does this happen? Is it a problem?
Mathematician Hannah Fry has called for tech and data scientists to make an ethical pledge, as medical doctors do. But the same result might be delivered by simply asking people to mind their bias.
The Romans were great engineers but they had a terrible number system. It didn’t even have zero.
Amazon’s plan to invest $700 million retraining its workforce signals very soon all jobs will be STEM jobs – and higher education needs to play a bigger role.
Mathematician Peter Taylor taught high school math to prepare to develop a new ‘RabbitMath’ curriculum that emphasizes collaborative creativity and learning to work with complex systems.
The more candidates that there are, the likelier it is that voters cannot come to a consensus on the best candidate.
When bad weather hits, there’s a complex formula organisers turn to to make lost game time fair.
We’re left wondering whether we as humans are so very special after all – that perhaps the ability to learn mathematics could be universal.
To a mathematician the idea of, “voter turnout” is not a very precise term. What exactly does it mean? And how is it calculated?
What do earthquakes, wealthy Italian families and your circulatory system have in common? Scientists use fractals, self-similarity and power laws to translate from local to global scales.
A human knows that four cats, four apples and the symbol 4 all have one thing in common – the abstract concept of ‘four’. Now robots are catching up.
Why does the impact of rain in a puddle look different from when it falls elsewhere, like in a lake or the ocean? A ‘puddle equation’ dives deep into the secret math of ripples.
Engineer, artist, mathematician, thinker: Leonardo da Vinci was all these and more.
Researchers find promising results for two programs patterned after the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, a renowned initiative launched at UMBC in the 1980s and known to increase diversity in STEM.
Simple math reveals some surprising facts about the underlying structure of Facebook and other social networks.
To multiply two numbers by hand take a few steps but it’s something we’re taught in school. When dealing with big numbers, really big numbers, we need to a quicker way to do things.
Mathematicians have known how to solve something called an S-unit equation for several years. However, the process is so convoluted that few can actually use it to tackle their problems.
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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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Professor of Mathematics, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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