As we near the end of the year, high school students (and their parents) will be debating whether to continue with Pure Maths, or make the change to Maths Literacy.imageWhile Pure Maths will pave the ...

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

Linear functions are used to model a broad range of real-world problems. The ability to solve linear equations and inequalities is an essential skill for analysing these models. This section covers ...

The internet is torn over an elementary-level math equation, with people suggesting conflicting answers based on their approaches. The simple math problem went viral on X this week, leaving thousands ...

Unless you do it in your day to day job, math can be very easy to avoid once you graduate from school. Suddenly those long, complicated equations that your math teacher swore would be trivial are so ...

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi bashed journalists a second week in a row, this time for not taking “45 seconds” to determine that the positive GDP news this week was nothing to be excited about because, he said, ...

An animated journey into the world of rational numbers! A fraction thief disrupts a number town, leading to a fun exploration of fractions, natural numbers, and mathematical concepts. Trump tells ...

Linux provides quite a few commands that let you do math on the command line. Which is best depends on the kind of math that you’re doing and the precision that you’re expecting. This post covers five ...

A recent entry in the visitor’s book of the James Joyce Tower & Museum in Sandycove, Dublin, perplexed the Friends of Joyce’s Tower, the volunteers who run the museum. The entry, reproduced as the ...

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