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Queensland girls still underrepresented in specialist maths despite push to increase participation

Girls are missing out on high-paying graduate jobs with starting salaries of $100k as the number of students enrolled in specialist maths declines.

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Declines in math readiness underscore the urgency of math awareness

When President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Math Awareness Week in April 1986, one of the problems he cited was that too few students were devoted to the study of math.

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The Messi of maths: Argentinian Luis Caffarelli wins Abel prize

Caffarelli, 74, takes top trophy for work on partial differential equations, the first winner from South America

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Robodebt not only broke the laws of the land – it also broke laws of mathematics

Friday marked the end of the public hearings for the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme. They painted a picture of a catastrophic program that was legally and ethically indefensible – an example of how technological overreach, coupled with dereliction of duty can amount to immense suffering for ordinary people.

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Maharastra Class 12 paper leak case: Police registers case against 4 including 3 students

Mumbai Police Crime Branch has registered a case against four including three students in the Maharashtra Board Class 12 Mathematics paper leak case. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Did you solve it? That’s Mathematics!

The answers to today’s word and number puzzles

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Can you solve it? That’s Mathematics!

When wordplay meets numberplay

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Maths that will help you as an adult: from baking a cake to asking for a pay rise

The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has proposed that school pupils should continue learning maths until 18 in order to obtain the numeracy skills needed in careers and everyday adult life. This proposal may be useful to current teenagers – but what about those of us who have already started grappling…

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'Numberless math' gets kids thinking about and visualizing algebra

Today, elementary mathematics classrooms look and sound very different than what many parents may have experienced.

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Specialist London state school averaged A* for every A-level entry in 2022

DfE figures show selective King’s College London mathematics school topped results in England last summer

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‘Art makes a person broader’: what sculptor Ruth Asawa knew that Rishi Sunak doesn’t

The British PM may believe that compulsory maths is the key to education – but Asawa showed a different path, armed with little more than flour and water

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak is right about a lack of maths skills in England: here's how plans to extend teaching could work

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has proposed making the study of mathematics compulsory for all students in England up to the age of 18, to help young people “in a world where data is everywhere and statistics underpin every job”.

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As a mathematician, I fear Rishi Sunak’s plan for compulsory maths doesn’t add up

Forcing students to endure a subject that many find unenjoyable could end up putting some off A-levels altogether, says mathematician and author Kit Yates

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Exploring the mathematical universe – connections, contradictions, and kale

Science and maths skills are widely celebrated as keys to economic and technological progress, but abstract mathematics may seem bafflingly far from industrial optimisation or medical imaging. Pure mathematics often yields unanticipated applications, but without a time machine to look into the future, how do mathematicians like me choose what…

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Six Telugu girls in Team USA for ICC U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup

HYDERABAD: The 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century saw a huge influx of software graduates into the USA. According to the Brookings Institution report, the Telugu states sent over 26,000 students between 2008 and 2012, most pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics or STEM fields.…

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Are prices real? How ghosts of calculus and physics influenced what we pay for things today

With inflation in the UK and around the world threatening to spiral out of control, prices of everything from milk to oil, energy and Christmas presents are a concern for most of us. Most people understand prices as simply the result of supply and demand – an agreement between sellers…

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Subject experts to be deployed back in schools in Punjab

CHANDIGARH: To make Punjab government’s ‘Mission-100 Percent’ campaign a success, state school education minister Harjot Singh Bains directed district education officers to deploy 749 block and district mentors of science, mathematics and English/social studies in schools.

The Times of India

Solve the puzzle: "How many cards are missing from the deck"

This mathematics riddle has been one of the most favorite puzzles among internet users. The question is about a pack of cards from which few cards are missing. The challenge is to find the number of cards which are there in the pack and how many are missing from it.

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Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: ‘There are quite a few areas where physics blurs into religion’

To answer life’s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse

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Why some students are "bad" at math

With math scores on the decline, a professor explains that math isn't a natural skill, but a learned one

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Mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin crowns great year for French science

Hugo Duminil-Copin became the latest mathematics professor from the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) to win the prestigious Fields Medal, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematicians.

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Former math teacher explains why some students are 'good' at math and others lag behind

When Frances E. Anderson saw the latest math scores for America’s fourth- and eighth-graders, she was hardly surprised that they had dropped. Until recently – including the period of remote instruction during the pandemic – Anderson taught high school math to students at all levels.“ Now she is a researcher…

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‘A celebrity? Only if you like niche maths videos on the internet’: Hannah Fry on cancer, Covid and the science of love

The mathematician, writer, presenter and podcast host will be back on our screens fronting Secret Wonders of the Modern World. She explains why, after undergoing treatment for cancer, she has come to see the limits to logic

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UK professor thinks anxiety could be behind why students struggle in Math

State leaders are working on how to raise the commonwealth’s standardized test scores in the future. One area where Kentucky students struggled was mathematics.

Daily Mirror

Ed Sheeran reveals he's filming tell-all documentary which delves into his life

Superstar Ed Sheeran will be inviting cameras to follow him around and explore all aspects of his life, as he confirmed his Mathematics tour will last for another four years

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