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Maths experts stunned as they crack a pattern for prime numbers

Two academics have shocked themselves and the world of mathematics by discovering a pattern in prime numbers.Primes – numbers greater than 1 that are divisible only by themselves and 1 – are considered the ‘building blocks’ of mathematics, because every number is either a prime or can be built by multiplying primes together – (84, […]

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Is math the problem or not?

Simon Jenkins: Our fixation with maths doesn’t add up There is nothing, except religion, as conservative as a school curriculum. It is drenched in archaic prejudice and vested interest. When the medieval church banned geography as an offence against the Bible, what had been the queen of the sciences never recovered. Instead Latin dominated the

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Kängurutävlingen har startat

Idag och två veckor framåt pågår Kängurutävlingen med fler än 100 000 deltagande elever i Sverige, från förskoleklass till gymnasiets kurs E. I hela världen deltar ca 60 länder och uppskattningsvis 6 miljoner elever vilket gör den till den största internationella matematiktävlingen i sitt slag. Ca 200 lärare har redan hämtat facit och uppgifter att

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