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Mathematical bedtime stories may build better mathematical memory

Researchers Jayne Spiller and Camilla Gilmore at the Center for Mathematical Cognition, University o ...
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NASA Pi Day challenge serves up a mathematical marvel

March 14 marks the annual celebration of the mathematical constant pi, aka the Greek letter Ļ€. Its i ...
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People Underestimate The Probability of Including at Least One Minority ...

Human society includes various minority groups. However, it is often difficult to know whether someo ...
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Use of decimal point is 1.5 centuries older than historians ...

A mathematical historian at Trinity Wester University in Canada, has found use of a decimal point by ...
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The Humble Multiplication Table, 1

A surprising relationship found in the multiplication table is that the sum of the entries in the ma ...
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Study debunks myths about gender and math performance

A major study of recent international data on school mathematics performance casts doubt on some com ...
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How many lottery tickets do you need to buy to ...

Mathematicians at The University of Manchester have answered the question: How many lottery tickets ...
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Explainer: Evolutionary Algorithms

My intention with this article is to give an intuitive and non-technical introduction to the field o ...
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Mathematicians Discover ‘Soft Cell’ Shapes Behind The Natural World

The mathematical study of how repeating tiles fit together usually involves pointed shapes like tria ...
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The Easy Trick to Evenly Cut a Pizza Into 5, ...

You ordered a pizza for your party, but the restaurant forgot to slice it ā€“ these mathematical trick ...
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How Maths Reveals The Best Time to Add Milk For ...

If you want your cup of tea to stay as hot as possible, should you put milk in immediately, or wait ...
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Yes, thereā€™s a numeracy crisis ā€“ so whatā€™s the solution?

Thereā€™s been plenty of commentary recently on the ā€œnumeracy crisisā€ threatening the economies of man ...
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Heads up Kobe Bryant! Research shows that trying for another ...

Basketball fans everywhere recognize the following scenario: Their favourite player scores a three-p ...
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Researchers discover a single shape that tiles the plane a ...

The 14-sided polygon Tile(1,1), on the left, is known as a weakly chiral aperiodic monotile ā€” in oth ...
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Are US teenagers more likely than others to exaggerate their ...

A major new study has revealed that American teenagers are more likely than any other nationality to ...
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Millennium Prize: The Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap problem

Thereā€™s a contradiction between classical and quantum theories. One of the outstanding discoveries m ...
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