PARIS - For Michel Talagrand, who won the Abel mathematics prize on March 20, maths provided a fun life free from all constraints – and an escape from the eye problems he suffered as a child. “Maths, ...

What do you remember about maths at school? Did you whizz through the problems and enjoy getting the answers right? Or did you often feel lost and worried you weren’t keeping up? Perhaps you felt ...

SECURITY BREACHES:THIS YEAR'S Leaving Certificate students may be feeling hard done by this morning, but spare a thought for their counterparts in 1969. Those unfortunate students had to take their ...

Laura Whelan had the points for her top CAO choice, but she missed out on a first round CAO offer because she didn't have the minimum grade in Maths. The 21-year-old from Dundrum, Dublin had been ...

Turns out the maths we learnt in school does have a use in the real world. If you've ever been to a fair or a charity event, you'll probably have seen those games with jars filled with various items ...

Leaving Cert higher level Maths students had at trickier time of it today with Paper 2, with plenty of stings in the tail of questions, according to teachers. The paper was heavy on probability and ...

Schools in the Eastern Cape are battling a shortage of maths and science teachers, GroundUp reports. In Simzamile Senior Secondary in King William's Town, for example, there is only one teacher for ...