For more than a century, a particular clock has been keeping time in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, and with attention and care, it can last much longer. On the second-floor balcony ...

Nearly half of Alberta’s Grade 6 students failed the provincewide math test in 2024, three years after the province started rolling out its new elementary school curriculum. Only 53 per cent of ...

For many students, mathematics feels less like a subject and more like a verdict, you’re either “good at it” or you’re not. There’s no escape from maths in school, and for some, every class brings a ...

For many of us, the subject didn’t start that way. It arrived with tests, formulas, and the pressure to get every answer right. Math itself isn’t born frightening; it becomes so with drills and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

When Adrienne Cahalan first sailed the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race back in 1984, navigation meant paper charts, dividers and a constant watch on the sky. “There was no GPS,” Cahalan recalls of the ...

Mathematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They test, and then push past, the limits of their imagination. They engage with ...

The PhD Programme in Mathematics is run within the "Tullio Levi-Civita" Department of Mathematics, that has a long tradition and about 100 faculty. It offers a wide range of research topics, from the ...

On Boxing Day, Tony Ellis will compete in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race for a record 55th time. Asked what keeps him returning to the gruelling Bass Strait race, the veteran sailor responds with ...