The exams regulator has launched a consultation on the proposal, which would see some GCSE exams move to screens ...
Again, the secret is how you’re wrapping all the way around the item. A diamond orientation means you’re folding over right ...
A prime illustration of what pupils describe as "impossible" comes from Edexcel's June 2022 Paper 1: Non-Calculator. The geometry challenge requires students to calculate the area of two shaded ...
One standout example of what students mean by "impossible" is from Edexcel's June 2022 Paper 1: Non-Calculator. The geometry problem asks students to work out the area of the two shaded regions, ...
Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...
1 Solihull College and University Centre, Solihull, UK. 2 Centre of Education Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Mathematics anxiety remains a significant barrier for a large proportion of ...
In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...
Dr. Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Call it MAG: mutually assured gerrymandering. First ...
A dipole moment of positive and negative wedge disclinations—the “the other side of the coin” of a single edge dislocation indicated by the replacement of affine connections. The inverted “T” marks ...