Rising up the leagues…
England is in the top 10! Which top ten? Football, Table-Tennis, obesity? No, no, and thrice no – TIMSS! TIMSS is the catchily-titled ‘Trends in International Maths and Science Study’. The study is a quadrennial analysis of maths and science skills in primary and secondary-age children (two groups – 10 and 14yrs).
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Solve any one of “The World’s 23 toughest maths questions” and you’ll be the toast of the science world, and the darling of US military research. DARPA, US military’s boffin-central, has put out a call for solutions to some of the most intractable scientific issues of our day. DARPA (which, incidentially, founded the military forerunner of [...]
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Phil Mickelson, a man better known for his ability to, as Winston Churchill put it: …hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. recently made public to the USA’s Congress his enthusiasm for maths and science.
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It’s not as if mathematicians needed proof that theirs was the purest science, but this cartoon merely serves to reinforce the fact, though sociologists and psychologists may find themselves disagreeing… Â Â Â
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