Posted in Everyone
Believe it or not, we spend an awful lot of time in the MyMaths office thinking and talking about MATHS, and sometimes end up having heated debates on vital issues such as whether or not animals can count. Or, indeed,...
Posted in Everyone
In January this year a professor at the University of Central Missouri discovered the largest known prime number, and it's a massive 17,425,170 digits long! It was discovered using software from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, which uses thousands...
Posted in Primary
For the last few years, keen mathematicians around the world have celebrated International Pi Day on the 14th March. Of course, that's because 14th March is 3.14 in the American dating format; Pi Day must have been particularly special back...
Posted in Secondary
The long-awaited draft for KS3 Maths has landed on my desk, and the buzz in the office is around what the new POS means in practice. Over the coming weeks and months we will of course be keeping a close eye on...
Posted in Primary
You will have seen that the government has now published its consultation version of the National Curriculum programme of study for maths at Primary. There’s plenty in there to get our teeth in to over the next few months, and...