Chandan Singh Gughtyal has been teaching Maths in boarding schools in India for about 28 years. He has experience of working as an assistant housemaster, housemaster, resident dorm parent, and dorm ...

Marcus du Sautoy is answering the phone and making tea while his laptop does the maths. It’s arduous maths: hours of long division, testing massive numbers for ‘primeness”, indivisibility by other ...

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Introduction Do you ever use math as a tool to solve interesting problems? In the 1970s math was often taught with simple worksheets. One teacher was looking for a way to help his students have more ...

University of Leeds provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration ...