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Swarming cicadas, stock traders, and the wisdom of the crowd

The springtime emergence of vast swarms of cicadas can be explained by a mathematical model of colle ...
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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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Labour’s plan to focus on early maths is solid – ...

Politicians in the UK have maths on the mind. The Conservatives intend to extend compulsory maths ed ...
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Researchers link patterns seen in spider silk, melodies

Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a scientifically rigorous anal ...
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Phyllotaxis Spirals 2

If you have already created the phyllotaxis data in Fathom, or opened the data created in TinkerPlot ...
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Everything You Need To Know About Statistics (But Were Afraid ...

Does the thought of p-values and regressions make you break out in a cold sweat? Never fear – read o ...
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The Easy Tricks That Can Maximise Your Lottery Winnings

From avoiding the number seven to picking numbers over 31, mathematician Peter Rowlett has a few psy ...
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Secant and Tangent

The names of the trigonometric ratios tangent and secant are derived from the Latin “to touch” and “ ...
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Mathematicians Have Finally Proved That Bach was a Great Composer

Converting hundreds of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach into mathematical networks reveals that ...
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Peer Review: The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning

We are a product of evolution, and are not surprised that our bodies seem to be well-suited to the e ...
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To Make Maths Classes Sizzle, Inject Some Politics And Social ...

Relating mathematics to questions that are relevant to many students can help address its image prob ...
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What are ‘multiplication facts’? Why are they essential to your ...

One of the essential skills students need to master in primary school mathematics are “multipl ...
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Mathematicians Find Odd Shapes That Roll Like A Wheel In ...

Not content with shapes in two or three dimensions, mathematicians like to explore objects in any nu ...
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Understanding how the brain works can transform how school students ...

School mathematics teaching is stuck in the past. An adult revisiting the school that they attended ...
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Millennium Prize: the Navier–Stokes existence and uniqueness problem

Among the seven problems in mathematics put forward by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000 is one ...
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How counting by 10 helps children learn about the meaning ...

When children start school, they learn how to recite their numbers (“one, two, three…”) and how to w ...
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