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It’s common to ‘stream’ maths classes. But grouping students by ...

It is very common in Australian schools to “stream” students for subjects such as English, science a ...
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From thousands to millions to billions to trillions to quadrillions ...

Here’s a game: Ask a friend to give you any number and you’ll return one that’s bigger. Just add “1” ...
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Mathematician Wins Turing Award For Harnessing Randomness

Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 Turing award for his work on understanding how randomness can shape a ...
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A periodic table of primes: Research team claims that prime ...

Both arithmetic aficionados and the mathematically challenged will be equally captivated by new rese ...
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How do we solve the maths teacher shortage? We can ...

Imagine if you enrolled your child in swimming lessons but instead of a qualified swimming instructo ...
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Mathematicians Are Bitterly Divided Over A Controversial Proof

An attempt to settle a decade-long argument over a controversial proof by mathematician Shinichi Moc ...
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Wrappers delight: The Easter egg equation you never knew you ...

This Easter season, as you tear open those chocolate eggs, have you ever wondered why they’re ...
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‘I had such fun!’, says winner of top math prize

For Michel Talagrand, who won the Abel mathematics prize on Wednesday, math provided a fun life free ...
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Ice-ray patterns: A rediscovery of past design for the future

Chinese ice-ray lattice, or “binglie” as it is called in Chinese, is an intricate patter ...
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Try These Mathematical Magic Tricks That Are Guaranteed To Work

There are no rabbits pulled out of hats here – these tricks rely on mathematical principles and will ...
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Why 2024 Abel Prize Winner Michel Talagrand Became A Mathematician

After losing an eye at the age of 5, the 2024 Abel prize winner Michel Talagrand found comfort in ma ...
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Mathematicians Plan Computer Proof Of Fermat’s Last Theorem

Fermat’s last theorem puzzled mathematicians for centuries until it was finally proven in 1993 ...
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What’s Pi Day all about? Math, science, pies and more

Math enthusiasts around the world, from college kids to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day on Thurs ...
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Paper offers a mathematical approach to modeling a random walker ...

Tiny particles like pollen grains move constantly, pushed and pulled by environmental forces. To stu ...
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How do neural networks learn? A mathematical formula explains how ...

Neural networks have been powering breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, including the large lan ...
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Drawings of mathematical problems predict their resolution

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with CY Cergy Paris University (CYU) ...
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