Math News Archives

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• Exposing the flaws in discovery math

  may have predicted this problem. Reports out of teachers colleges suggest that the fifth grade teacher is struggling with the mathematics curriculum – just as their students are. Many new Canadian elementary school teachers lack basic math skills ...
  2016-05-18 08:16:00

• University of Melbourne advertises three maths lecturer jobs but only invites women to apply to balance out inequality at school

  Its decision is aimed to boost female representation among faculty members in the mathematics department, it said, the majority of which are men. 'The University plan seeks to increase the diversity of the workforce and the representation of women in areas ...
  2016-05-18 10:22:00

• By-the-numbers mathematician biopic doesn't add up

  Jeremy Northam is philosopher/political activist Bertrand Russell, whose quote “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty,” introduces the film. Ramanujan is the presumptive hero, but this is Irons’ film. He gets the be ...
  2016-05-18 12:00:00

• Botswana: Science, Maths Problematic

  Gaborone — Mathematics and Science are fundamental foundations for engineering and technology, according to Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) pre-university academic programmes director, Dr Haniso Motlhabane. Speaking at ...
  2016-05-18 07:03:00

• We Need Political Will To Develop Mathematics- NMC

  The National Mathematical Centre (NMC) said the development of Mathematics in the country requires political will from all tiers of government for the feat to be realisable. This is even as the centre and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...
  2016-05-17 11:12:00

• Students score in ninth annual North County Mathematics Superbowl

  The Super Bowl came to Santa Maria — that is the North County Mathematics Superbowl — with more than 260 student mathletes from 23 area schools competing for the win. The ninth annual Mathematics Superbowl, sponsored by the Orcutt Union School District ...
  2016-05-17 09:40:00

• Melbourne University advertises female-only jobs in bid to remedy gender imbalance in maths

  Only about a quarter of all mathematics academics in Australia are female, and the university is now advertising three positions in its School of Mathematics and Statistics for female applicants only. It is believed to be the first time it has limited ...
  2016-05-18 08:43:00

• Men need not apply: Melbourne University aims to redress gender imbalance in maths

  TONY EASTLEY: Melbourne University's School of Mathematics and Statistics has, for the first time, taken the extraordinary step of opening up jobs to women-only applicants. Lexi Metherell reports. LEXI METHERELL: Women are notoriously underrepresented in ...
  2016-05-18 08:10:00

• Mathematics Teachers in Central upgrade skills

  The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Ghana (AIMS-Ghana’s) is offering training for 256 Basic School Mathematics Teachers from five District of the Central Region, as part of a nationwide programme. It is aimed at equipping them with the ...
  2016-05-18 04:23:00

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