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maths
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Van Gogh Depicted Something In His ‘Starry Night’ That Scientists Only Figured Out Recently [Video]
05 Dec 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Starry Night might just be the splashing of a one-eared madman in a French asylum, but, strangely, Van Gogh managed to capture something so distinct in his work that it showed up in Hubble Space Telescope observations a century later.
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Math Goes Gaga Over ‘The Miracle That Disrupts Order’ [Video & Confusion Alert]
05 Apr 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Called the Hat, the 13-sided shape can be arranged in tile formation forever and it will never repeat a pattern.
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The Dire State Of Matric Maths In South Africa
28 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The latest figures show that the country is failing to deliver a decent mathematics education to learners, and the consequences are far-reaching.
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Palindrome Fans Are In For A Once In A Millenium Treat On Sunday
27 Jan 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
This Sunday, something will happen that only happens once every 1 000 years. It’s one for the nerds.
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Superhumans Exist – Fascinating Tales Of Real People With Mind-Blowing Talents
27 Jan 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Forget Marvel, because there are those out there with unique gifts and talents that seem to prove the existence of superhumans.
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Have You Ever Seen A Maths Literacy Grade 12 Paper? Check This Out [Images]
25 Oct 2019 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a matric exam paper, and I had no idea what a Maths Literacy Paper entails. Come, learn with me.
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Peak Snowflake: Students ‘Triggered’ By Question In Maths Exam
12 Jun 2019 by Carrie / 3 Comments
A maths exam question from a UK GCSE paper sparked a number of complaints, after students claimed it triggered them.
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Solve One Of These Six Maths Problems And You Win $1 Million
04 Sep 2018 by Carrie / 1 Comment
Grigori Perelman famously solved the Poincare Conjecture in 2006. The remaining six problems so important that solving any one of them would make you rich.
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No, 2017’s Maths And Science Matric Results Weren’t Better Than Previous Years
09 Jan 2018 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Many have been harking on about our improved science and maths results, but if you scratch just beneath the surface you’ll find it’s not all roses.
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A Maths Formula To Explain Why All Hipsters Look The Same
30 May 2016 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Why are hipsters so annoying? Why are there so many of them? Why do they look the same? Apparently maths has the answer.
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This Maths Problem Has Gone Viral
15 Apr 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
First it was that dress, then it was a cat walking up (or down) some stairs and now it’s a maths problem. The internet can be a real drag sometimes.
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They’re Gong To Make Matric Exams Difficult Again
05 Jan 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Nothing pleases the Department of Education more than an ever-increasing matric pass rate. But, shock and horror, this year it is predicted that the pass rate will actually fall by a few percent.
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Maths Explains Why Hipsters All Eventually Synchronise
13 Nov 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Science can explain a lot of things – the weather, space, evolution. It can also explain why hipsters, when trying to be a group of nonconformists, all look EXACTLY the same.
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Dumbed-Down Nation – Click To See Where SA Comes In The World For Maths / Science Education
03 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The quality of South Africa’s maths and science education places us last out of 148 countries, according to a World Economic Forum report. Is there a solution to the on-going problem?
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Awesome Maths Questions From North Korean Text Books
25 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Russian historian, Andrei Lankov lived in Pyongyang in the 1980’s, where he was an exchange student. His forthcoming book takes a look at how the government established a tight grip on the lives of everyday North Koreans. Take, for example, these anti-US questions cited by Lankov in a North Korean student textbook.
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Refugee Lands Maths Teacher’s Job By Explaining Equations To Passing Shoppers
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Eight years after leaving his home country, this Congolese refugee can finally say his expectations of a better future in South Africa have been met. Fernando Brice Olivier Ogadi, 35, has just received a job offer in the profession he is qualified in – as a school maths teacher. His new employer noticed him in a parking lot giving free maths lessons.
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