Most kids' TV programming is lame and not educational. "Numberblocks," a British import that streams on Netflix, is a beacon of light. It's made my kid want to talk about math nonstop. Like most ...
London: Once a week, year six pupils at Ashmount Primary School in North London settle in front of their computers, put on their headsets and get ready for their math class. A few minutes later, their ...
In the latest report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Chinese mainland (consisting of the Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Guangdong provinces) ranked fifth among ...
Via Prufrock (subscribe for free!), here’s a story about how a group of Chinese math and science teachers came into a British school for four weeks, and taught the kids there the Chinese way: 12 hours ...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — British mathematician Sir Andrew J. Wiles has won the Abel Prize in math for cracking a centuries-old hypothesis. Norway's Academy of Science and Letters said Tuesday he was ...
Your typical kid dreams about getting a puppy or meeting SpongeBob, but Esther Okade is not your typical kid. At just 6 years old, she was already taking her maths GCSE, generally undertaken by 14- to ...
LONDON (AP) -- For nearly 100 years, mathematicians have been stumped by one of the math world's most difficult problems, a conjecture by French scientist Henri Poincare about the properties of ...
LONDON—Police say a 15-year-old British schoolgirl who sparked an international search when she went missing along with her math teacher has been found safe and well in France. The Sussex Police force ...
British rockers Dutch Uncles have been bubbling away in the underground math-pop scene since 2008, and this month sees the release of their latest album Big Balloon. Achameleon shows a dynamic ...