Maths Jokes!
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It's almost the end of term, so to celebrate with a bit of fun, the MyMaths team would like to share their favourite maths jokes. What did 0 say to 8? Nice belt. A shepherd's feeling a bit...
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Counting cats...
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Thank you for the great responses to our recent post about whether or not animals can count; we’re glad to see some of you have been carrying out your own experiments. Olivia reports that she tried the following: “Today I...
MyMaths and Tablet Computers
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Some MyMaths users have been asking us how to use the site on iPads and other tablets. While MyMaths does work on some tablets, if you’ve given it a go you’ve probably found it’s been a case of finding clunky...
Can your cat count?
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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,...
Did you know?
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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...