BBC Clicks onto Maths-Whizz
Today’s BBC tech and web news programme Click featured Maths-Whizz in Kate Russell’s Webscape report. Ms Russell featured Whizz.com as a way to learn maths, and enjoy doing so, online – which is cool because it’s pretty much exactly how we describe Maths-Whizz. As she pointed out, with the five lessons that free account holders [...]
Read the whole postMaths for Bankers – Johnny Ball explains
A quick Monday maths refresher from Johnny Ball as he explains to the viewers of BBC news how to talk about, and write, large numbers. Followers of the banking and economic crises will now be well-acquainted with the kind of eye-wateringly large sums of money being lost, earned or moved around in the US and [...]
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Marcus du Sautoy is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College, author of Finding Moonshine and The Music of the Primes. Having presented Mindgames and The Music of the Primes on BBC television. He writes for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and The Times and is frequently asked for [...]
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Want to learn your number bonds* and get some exercise? Try Maths-Twister! In this video, a teacher demonstrates a useful classroom game to help students practise their number facts and mental arithmetic by playing a variation on the classic game ‘Twister’. Read on for our take on the ‘Maths-Twister’ recipe, or watch the video on the BBC’s new [...]
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Stop the press: News Report Shows Maths is Useful. Bit of a no-brainer, that one, but not everyone would appreciate just how useful maths and physical science skills are to one industry in particular – computer gaming. The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones reports from the north-east of England on the state of the UK’s computer gaming industry [...]
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