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Learning from Bertrand Russell in today’s tumultuous world

They come from all over the world to see, touch and read the originals of tens of thousands of lette ...
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Mathematicians Measure Infinities, and Find They’re Equal

Credit: Saul Gravy Getty Images Proof rests on a surprising link between infinity size and the compl ...
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Maria Agnesi, the greatest female mathematician you’ve never heard of

The outmoded gender stereotype that women lack mathematical ability suffered a major blow in 2014, w ...
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Dialogic Teaching

Dialogue is a key part of all lively classrooms, but how do we ensure this dialogue is effective? Ho ...
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Mathematicians Are Overselling the Idea That “Math Is Everywhere”

Credit: PK Flickr(CC BY 2.0) The mathematics that is most important to society is the province of th ...
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Mastery Learning Vs Performance-Oriented Learning, and Why Should Teachers Care?

Generally, the occurrence of students asking this question increases with growing age. Primary stude ...
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How to cheat at dice – from an expert in ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a 600-year-old die that was probably used for cheating. The wooden ...
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Math Fun with a Perimeter Magic Triangle

Credit: Count your pennies! Learn a fun puzzle to test your quick computation skills—and see if you ...
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The Central Limit Theorem

The central limit theorem – the idea that plotting statistics for a large enough number of samples f ...
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Math shows how DNA twists, turns and unzips

DNA knot as seen under the electron microscope. Javier Arsuaga, CC BY-ND If you’ve ever seen a pictu ...
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Is the Mathematical World Real?

Philosophers cannot agree on whether mathematical objects exist or are pure fictions Credit: Brook V ...
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Let’s teach students why math matters in the real world

“When will I ever use this?” It’s a question math and science teachers hear all the time from their ...
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Inspired by Genius: How a Mathematician Found His Way

Credit: The mathematician Ken Ono in his office at Emory University in Atlanta. Raymond McCrea Jones ...
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Has one of math’s greatest mysteries, the Riemann hypothesis, finally ...

Over the past few days, the mathematics world has been abuzz over the news that Sir Michael Atiyah, ...
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If Mathematicians Were in Charge of Punctuation

Credit: Getty Images Better living through set-builder notation As a publicly mathematical person, o ...
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Can bees do maths? Yes – new research shows they ...

The humble honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths including addition and subtraction, shows ...
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