The Numberblocks Make and Play game helps preschoolers to develop a strong understanding of numbers helping them to find the ...

The task seems simple, but Williams’ goal was to bolster students’ “number sense” — a difficult-to-define skill, but one that is nevertheless essential for more advanced mathematics. One student with ...

Preschool-age children who frequently play number-related games at home show better math skills and growth by the end of kindergarten, finds a new study in the journal Child Development.

With pupils resitting Maths and English GCSEs at an all-time high, and fewer than a fifth of those passing, is the system ...

And the primes 13,331, 15,551, 16,661, 19,991 and 72,227 and 1,777,771 are all examples of palindromic numbers. These are numbers that remain the same when the digits are reversed. Magic number 7.

At the playground on the leafy campus of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, one afternoon in May, the mathematician Akshay Venkatesh alternated between pushing his 4-year-old ...

Early Greek mathematician Thymaridas of Paros linked number theory, cosmic harmony, and linear equations, pioneering algebraic thinking.

Researchers looked at maths anxiety in 126 parents, then tracked their children's maths skills. Children were worse at maths, aged three to five, if their parents were anxious about numbers.

The gender gap in pass rates has flipped in post-16 GCSE maths. This year, 16.4 per cent of females achieved a grade 4 or above – falling from 18.2 per cent in 2024. Meanwhile, 17.8 per cent of males ...