Group work and giving students time to discuss their work helps to build their confidence in using math in science lessons, a ...

A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy to dissect, and maybe even help people ‘fall ...

The secret beauty in apples, stars and the center of you. In the world of taxicab geometry, even the Pythagorean theorem takes a back seat. Trying to fit it all in? There’s a trick to it, even in 24 ...

Measured against that, the Kakeya conjecture – a problem stemming from a 1917 thought experiment by Japanese mathematician ...

A tricky math question has been leaving people confused as they try to work out the answer - but others say it's really ...

Mathematicians soon hypothesized that as your set gets bigger, the biggest sum-free subsets will get much larger than N /3.

A primary school maths question aimed at 10-year-olds has left adults scratching their heads. The difficult challenge was shared on a popular Reddit thread after one sibling was left stumped by his ...