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I remember when I was in primary school, standing in the tuckshop queue with R5, thinking that was a lot. If anyone had R20, ...

National Mathematics Day honors Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught genius born in 1887. His groundbreaking work on series and partitions, despite lacking formal proofs, captivated mathematicians like ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an admissions requirement five years ago? Now arrives the dispiriting result: Many freshmen at one of its ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. American students are experiencing a math crisis marked by a decline in scores that began over a decade ago and ...

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The 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study revealed that South African learners finished stone last, even though they competed against much younger children. The Trends in ...

Parents need to know that Magic Store Math is a math-practice game created for kids who are ready to work with numbers higher than 100. As the clerk at a magic store, a player determines the prices of ...