The math in it is way off. — -- A meme claiming that splitting the Powerball jackpot could solve poverty in the U.S. has been shared nearly a million times on Facebook. However, there's one ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A student in my class will occasionally pose the question: “Mr Seagull — what’s the point of maths?” The past ...

Voice: What’s 8 x 16? Come on! Come ON! Narrator: You wouldn’t expect a baby to know the answer, it hasn’t learned anything yet… Narrator: As for you, we ...

When he was 20, Elliot Page became the fourth-youngest person to be nominated for the best actress Oscar for his role in Juno, a film about a young woman facing the decision of what to do about an ...

Odds suggest Madeleine Beatty shouldn’t be a data scientist. She shouldn’t be managing a team at tech-giant Amazon, figuring out complex problems for the largest internet retailer in the world. Beatty ...

Ask any of your friends and you’ll get a lot of negative answers and hatred for maths. I bet at least one of them will tell you something like “I don’t know why I learnt Trigonometry at school, I’ve ...

This is episode one of a three-part series. You can listen to part two here and part three here. [CLIP: Wind howls] Rachel Feltman: When Tom Crawford climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and stood 5,895 meters ...

Find your added subjects in My Bitesize. Try this quiz based on GCSE Maths past papers. Choose the topic you would like to revise and answer the questions. GCSE Maths: exam-style questions Free ...

Math Riddles: Are you preparing for competitive exams and looking to ace the quantitative or logical reasoning sections? Well, check out these puzzles that will help you learn maths tricks to solve ...

With winter temperatures plummeting across Europe a Serbian maths professor has come up with a novel, not to mention economical, way of heating his house for free - by using empty beer cans to create ...