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The same but different

Imagine this: On the news this morning you hear a segment about the weather – the maximum temperatur ...
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Game on: The maths and data behind professional League of ...

Have you heard of esports? If not, then where have you been? Probably outdoors having fun with frien ...
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Questioning the answer rather than answering the question

“Are we at the top?” might not sound like such an unusual question to hear from a child when you’re ...
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Mathematics is SUBLIME!

What is the value of learning mathematics now that artificial intelligence (AI) can solve almost all ...
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Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien ...

Scarlett Howard Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are ...
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The science of the casino: why the house always wins ...

Leo Visions / Unsplash You’ve probably heard the phrase “the house always wins” when it comes to cas ...
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How can Canada become a global AI powerhouse? By investing ...

This AI-generated illustration is an example of how AI is at our fingertips. But mathematics lies at ...
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The magic of maths: festive puzzles to give your brain ...

Panther Media Global/Alamy Mathematics is a “science which requires a great amount of imagination”, ...
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Can bigger-is-better ‘scaling laws’ keep AI improving forever? History says ...

Milad Fakurian / Unsplash OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman – perhaps the most prominent face of the ...
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Girls and boys solve math problems differently – with similar ...

Math teachers have to accommodate high school students’ different approaches to problem-solving. RJ ...
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One university boosted gender diversity in advanced maths by over ...

ThisIsEngineering/Pexels As the artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing industries explod ...
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Nine-year-olds in England sit timed multiplication test – but using ...

Halfpoint/Shutterstock What’s seven times nine? Quick, you’ve got six seconds to answer. This June, ...
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A New Study Shows Little Kids Who Count On Their ...

Sydney Bourne/ AAP If you ask a small child a simple maths question, such as 4+2, they may count on ...
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How number systems shape our thinking and what it means ...

Despite using numerical bases on a daily basis, few of us have reflected on the nature of these cogn ...
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A rushed new maths curriculum doesn’t add up. The right ...

Getty Images If the recent news of a new mathematics and statistics curriculum for years 0–10 felt f ...
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How Do We Get More Year 12s Doing Maths?

Black ice/ Pexels , CC BY Mathematics has been the broccoli of school subjects for generations of Au ...
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