The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Beth Kobett, Jill Henry, Avery Zachery, Cindy Garcia, Molly ...

Schoolkids who used finger tracing fared better with previously unseen geometry and algebra questions, new research has found. Studies involving 275 Sydney school children aged between nine and 13 ...

How could an equation or formula ever hope to capture something as complex and beautiful as the human mind? In a sense we’ve long been describing the brain with numbers – 86 billion neurons, 1200 ...

Let’s talk about maths. Wait, no, come back – we know a lot of people are put off or feel daunted by the subject, and that’s entirely understandable. Maths, as one of our readers puts it, stands for ...