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In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been ...

Michelle Tregoning remembers the first time she felt nervous about maths like it was yesterday. In Year 6, she was asked to answer a simple maths question in front of the class: what's 5 x 6? Ms ...

Thousands of children are being "set up to fail" because of a lack of understanding around dyscalculia - or "dyslexia of numbers", according to a North Yorkshire mum. Lucy McGill, from Bedale, has ...

From March 15, more than one million young Australians will sit the NAPLAN numeracy test. For most students, this will just be a routine part of the school day (albeit less fun than running around at ...

Dyscalculia is a learning disability related to mathematics. It's not unusual for a child to have a tough time with math homework now and then. But if they do well in other subjects but have problems ...

After a major push across the United States to overhaul how schools teach reading, many states have expanded their focus to ...

When I teach five-year-olds the subject they typically scream with excitement. Here’s how to stop maths-phobia setting in When I tell people I’m a mathematician, one of the first things many of them ...

It’s fair to say maths is not everyone’s favourite subject. In fact, for many people, the feelings of tension and anxiety that arise when trying to solve a mathematical problem can be all consuming.

This photograph does a pretty good job of "describing" ripples. But a mathematician could do it with greater precision and predictive power. Image credit: andressolo, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 "How is it ...