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Best Books of 2024: our experts share their standout reads

It’s that time of year again … and we’ve invited 30 of our writers, from fields as disparate as wildlife ecology and mathematics to literature and politics, to share their best books of of 2024. Of course, best books lists are subjective, relying on what people have read and remembered.…

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Babylonian tablet preserves student's 4,000-year-old geometry mistake

A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ago.

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56 Year 12 exams in Victoria have been compromised, including maths and biology. What does this mean for students?

After more than a week of uncertainty, we now know the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) results. Not for Victoria’s Year 12 students who sat the exams, but the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority responsible for running them. And the results are not good.

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Blind date: ‘First impressions? I’m pretty certain we used to live next door to each other’

David, 27, a mathematics PhD student meets Eva, 27, a vet

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Mandelbrot’s fractals are not only gorgeous – they taught mathematicians how to model the real world

At the beginning of my third year at university studying mathematics, I spotted an announcement. A visiting professor from Canada would be giving a mini-course of ten lectures on a subject called complex dynamics.

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Prime time for cicadas: what a once-in-1,547-year bug population surge tells us about the nature of reality

It’s a big year in America – for wildlife as well as for politics. I’m talking about periodical cicadas.

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30 Math Memes Only True Nerds Will Appreciate

Explore our hilarious collection of math memes that will make true nerds laugh! These funny gems use humor to brighten any math class! The post 30 Math Memes Only True Nerds Will Appreciate first appeared on Bored Panda.

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‘AI is mathematics, not magic’ — AI expert says the problem is human expectations

AI expert Elin Hauge reminds us that AI models are for prediction, not for thinking

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These HSC maths exam questions left many NSW students baffled. How many can you answer?

Monday’s exams featured triangles, inflation and wombats – but student reactions suggest some struggled to make sense of the numbers

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The masters of risky business: here’s how you can become an actuary

These are the 5 steps to start your career in the growing field of accounting.

Fortune

Numbers put on a challenging test for HSC mathematics exam takers

'It was less than what I was expecting going into a maths exam.'

Newcastle Herald

Scientists around the world report millions of new discoveries every year − but this explosive research growth wasn’t what experts predicted

Millions of scientific papers are published globally every year. These papers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine present discoveries that range from the mundane to the profound.

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Maths schools top the A-level rankings – and their students only study Stem subjects

The school that topped the Times newspaper’s A-Level rankings in 2024 only permits students to sit A-levels in three subjects: maths, further maths and physics. At King’s College London Mathematics School, 76.2% of students got an A* – and 99.5% of students achieved between A*-B.

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$These 30 Memes May Help You Get Through Another Day Of Doing Math$

These 30 Memes May Help You Get Through Another Day Of Doing Math

It's the perfect place to go to have a chuckle or two if you're a professional mathematician or just an average fan of crunching numbers. The post These 30 Memes May Help You Get Through Another Day Of Doing Math first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Want to solve a complex problem? Applied math can help

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play in solving complex problems such as curing a disease?

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India’s teaching training landscape needs urgent reform. Here’s why

The average score of a grade 10 student in mathematics was 220 out of 500 in the National Achievement Survey 2021. In science, the average student scored 206 out of 500, and 277 in English, as per the survey.

Newcastle Herald

New syllabus roll out for year 11 and 12 students in curriculum overhaul

The new syllabuses will be examined from the 2027 HSC.

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Maths tutor molested girls in their homes, court told

A mathematics tutor abused the trust three families placed in him to teach their daughters when he sexually molested them in their homes, a prosecutor has said.

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‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west

The flow of knowledge from India to Europe on everything from maths to astronomy has gone unacknowledged by historians

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‘He was in mystic delirium’: was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform AI – or a lonely madman?

In isolation, Alexander Grothendieck seemed to have lost touch with reality, but some say his metaphysical theories could contain wonders

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Record number of students took A-level maths in 2024 – but they hide a worrying decline

On August 15 2024, over 107,400 young people in the UK nervously scanned their results, looking for their grade in A-level mathematics. It is the first time more than 100,000 people have taken any A-level subject in a single year.

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The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th-century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators

Like most mathematicians, I hear confessions from complete strangers: the inevitable “I was always bad at math.” I suppress the response, “You are forgiven, my child.”

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Boost to A-level maths reflects student desire for digital literacy, experts say

Results in England show record numbers sat maths and further maths, and percentage of top grades rose

The Guardian - UK

Readers reply: Who invented mathematics?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

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10 of Futurama's smartest science references and gags

Good news, everyone! With "Futurama" season 12 about to land, here are 10 of the best science and math-based jokes from the sci-fi comedy's 25-year history.

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