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Maths is often feared and rejected by teenagers. This has serious implications for Australia’s future.
Many courses at university include mathematical or quantitative elements but do not require A-level maths for entry.
Maths allows people to be immensely expressive in their scientific and artistic ideas.
Researchers have used lab models to study how rogue waves form, but these don’t always transfer over to the natural world.
Students created sci-fi and fantasy stories with characters that represented ideas in statistics.
A new study shows painless brain stimulation technique may improve people’s ability to learn maths skills.
A new study proves for the first time that the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ applies to large animals as well as small ones, offering key lessons for conversation.
Recalling multiplication facts doesn’t automatically help children to apply their knowledge.
A researcher offers families advice on playful paths to summer STEM learning for children.
Science, technology, engineering and maths are still not an equal playing field for all. Here’s what needs to change.
Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians were running these calculations by hand.
Focusing on student learning preferences could boost the number of students from underrepresented groups earning science and engineering degrees.
Before becoming the pope, Robert Prevost gained a degree in mathematics.
What do Sudoku, AI, Rubik’s cubes, clocks and molecules have in common? They can all be reimagined as algebraic equations.
Game theory shows why political parties may gravitate to the centre in the quest for the median voter.
The state, once ranked near the bottom of education standings, dramatically improved student literacy rates while using little money.
South Africa’s mathematics achievement trends are unusual. This could point to possible ways to improve results.
Mathematicians once turned up their noses at imaginary numbers. But complex analysis actually simplifies math and physics.
If you only search in one location. there’s only a one in 143 billion chance of finding the hard drive.
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Laureate Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle
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