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Teachers have hit out at an "extraordinary decision" to cease funding a key A-level maths project. Underground Mathematics had won the backing of a government commissioned review into post-16 maths in England. It helps students "deepen understanding of ...
2017-08-25 08:45:00
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A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proved that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics that could change how we calculate today. The tablet, known as Plimpton 332, was ...
2017-08-25 05:51:00
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"Plimpton 322 has puzzled mathematicians for more than 70 years, since it was realised it contains a special pattern of numbers called Pythagorean triples," says Dr Daniel Mansfield of the School of Mathematics and Statistics in the UNSW Faculty of Science.
2017-08-24 03:00:00
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Mathematician Patrick Owen, who has spent decades teaching trigonometry to often reluctant kids, said the discovery had the potential to open children's eyes to mathematics in a more engaging way. "If that could actually be someone else's perspective ...
2017-08-25 03:19:00
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