Maths

Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murty plan new math charity for children in England

Former British prime minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty on Saturday revealed plans to set up a new charity focussed on improving the mathematics and numeracy skills among children and young people in England. The Richmond Project, named after the North Yorkshire home and constituency Sunak continues to represent as a backbench Conservative Party member of Parliament for Richmond and Northallerton, will be launched later this year as a registered charity. It marks the first major joint project by the couple, both 44, since Sunak left 10 Downing Street last year and will be aimed at helping schoolchildren build confidence in tackling numbers. Later this year, Akshata and I will launch The Richmond Project a new charity focused on improving numeracy, Sunak announced on social media. Confidence with numbers transforms lives. It unlocks opportunity, fuels social mobility, and helps people thrive. But right now, too many struggle. More to come soon, he said. Akshata Murty

Maharashtra's 14-year-old "Human Calculator" breaks 6 Guinness records

14-year-old 'human calculator' Aaryan Shukla broke 6 Guinness World Records in a single day. In front of live audience, he broke the record for the fastest time to mentally add 50 5-digit numbers

New bill introduced to improve math, science curriculum, help US students

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the US House of Representatives that would allow the National Science Foundation to support a modernized math curriculum and improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Introduced by Congressman Chrissy Houlahan from the Democratic Party and Jim Baird from the Republican Party, the Mathematical and Statistical Modelling Education Act aims at helping students compete globally in STEM subjects, especially in view of countries like China and India are making dramatic investments in education, especially in math and science. Houlahan said, "As I have travelled the world, I have seen how China, India, and our other global competitors are making dramatic investments in education, especially in math and science. We must act quickly to ensure America's students are not left behind in the global economy. "Giving the National Science Foundation the authority to invest in modernized STEM education is an important step ...

Class 10 Maths, Science pass marks in Maharashtra could fall to 20 from 35

Maharashtra SCERT has proposed lowering passing marks for Class 10 Maths and Science from 35 to 20. However, there's a caveat...

A lesser-known history of maths

Madhava's work serves to make point that complex mathematics belongs to all people and all cultures in all periods, and that to dismiss historical work as ethnomathematics is to express a prejudice

International Day of Mathematics 2024: Know history, significance, and more

International Day of Mathematics is celebrated every year to spread awareness about the importance of mathematics in daily life and solving real-world problems

National Pi Day 2024: Everything you need to know about the special day

Pi Day 2024 is celebrated every year on 14 March. This day is dedicated to the mathematical constant pi (3.14), and it is a time to celebrate the excellence of maths and its applications

National Mathematics Day 2023: History, importance, wishes, quotes

On December 22 each year, the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan's birthday is celebrated as National Mathematics Day

America's poor math skills raise alarms over global competitiveness

Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. They're all insanely smart. In their regular jobs they're engineers, they're scientists, said Tran, 17. And you can't do any of those things without math. Tran also loves math. This summer, he studied calculus five hours a day with other high schoolers in a program at Northeastern University. But Tran and his friends are not the norm. Many Americans joke about how bad they are at math, and already abysmal scores on standardized math tests are falling even further. The nation needs people who are good at math, employers say, in the same way motion picture mortals need superheroes. They say America's poor math performance isn't funny. It's a threat to the nation's global economic competitiveness and national security. The advances in technology that are going to drive where the world goes in the next 50 years are going to come from other countries, because they

UP govt signs MoU with Khan Academy to improve Maths skill of students

The Uttar Pradesh government has signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Khan Academy India to enhance maths learning skills of over 500K students in the 48,000 state-run schools

Indian maths, science teachers in demand in England: UK Media report

India is among the source countries for qualified mathematics and science teachers being lured with international relocation payments of GBP 10,000 as part of an overseas drive to fill classroom vacancies in England, according to a UK media report on Saturday. Hundreds of maths, science and language teachers will be brought to the UK from countries such as India and Nigeria this year, with plans to expand recruitment schemes to other countries and subjects, The Times' newspaper said. The International Relocation Payments (IRP), being run as a pilot in the 2023 to 2024 academic year, is applicable to overseas teachers with a job offer in the UK and covers their cost of visas, immigration health surcharge and other relocation expenses. UK officials reportedly expect between 300 and 400 teachers to get the IRPs in the coming academic year and if it proves a success in attracting overseas staff, the scheme could be extended to other subjects. In an effort to boost the number of teacher

Slipping on numbers? Experts suggest how to get over maths phobia

Role of technology comes into play as educators look for fun ways to combat a perennial fear

UK PM Rishi Sunak sets up review to change country's 'anti-maths mindset'

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday announced a new experts-led review into how to ensure all pupils in England study some form of mathematics up to the age of 18 as part of his strategy to change an anti-maths mindset that is holding the country back. Delivering a speech at the London Screen Academy, Sunak lamented that it was socially acceptable to make jokes about not being able to do maths. He pointed out that for his plan to grow the UK economy in the long term, the UK simply cannot allow poor numeracy to cost the economy tens of billions a year. We say things like: Oh, maths, I can't do that, it's not for me' and everyone laughs. But we'd never make a joke like that about not being able to read. So we've got to change this anti-maths mindset, said Sunak. We've got to start prizing numeracy for what it is a key skill every bit as essential as reading. So my campaign to transform our national approach to maths is not nice to have. It's about changing how we value maths in th

Remembering the genius

Ramanujan's birthday, December 22, is now celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India

Pure maths and the natural world

The book adheres closely to the popular science principle Stephen Hawking articulated in avoiding equations and formulae in A Brief History of Time

Civil engineering students score the lowest in maths, shows report

AICTE survey found civil engineering students to be the worst performers in fundamental subjects

Google Cloud employee calculates value of Pi to 100 trillion digits

Tech giant Google's Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao has beaten her own record from three years ago for the number of digits calculated for pi.

Online math class platform Cuemath raises $57 mn, tops $407 mn valuation

The funding was led by Alpha Wave and the capital would help the firm to expand to over 100 countries by FY23

Girls' performance in mathematics now equal to boys: UNESCO report

Deepening the debate on those still left behind, an annual UNESCO gender report, analysed data from 120 countries in primary and secondary education to offer a global picture

Kochi-based startup launches video solutions to CBSE maths problems

Showans.com, the web portal, has initiated the service explaining answers to multiple-choice questions in video format