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Note for readers: This article focuses on the Mathletics Programme for New Zealand schools. Mathletics remains available globally and continues to support curriculum-aligned mathematics teaching for schools worldwide. For schools choosing maths resources for 2027, our new whitepaper offers a …

The Basic Setup Whether one’s dealing with biology, economics, politics or a host of other fields, it’s common to encounter situations that can be modeled as involving two agents that repeatedly compete with each other. One imagines that at each …

Subscribe to our ▶️ YouTube channel 🔴 for the latest videos, updates, and tips. Subtraction word problems on 3-digit numbers help students apply subtraction skills to real-life situations. These problems encourage logical thinking, improve problem-solving abilities, and strengthen understanding of place value. …

The 2026 SIAM Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (NWCS26) conference was held in Montreal during 26-29 May (website here). David Lloyd was invited to give a Plenary Lecture. The title of his talk was “Localised Multi-dimensional Patterns”, and an abstract …

The Erdős unit distance problem asks for the largest possible number u(n) of unit distances among n points in the plane. This is equivalent to finding maximally dense unit-distance graphs. A recent OpenAI announcement concerns the asymptotic problem: the old …

Subscribe to our ▶️ YouTube channel 🔴 for the latest videos, updates, and tips. Checking subtraction using addition is an easy way to verify whether a subtraction answer is correct. Since addition and subtraction are inverse operations, we can add the difference …

Anne Skeldon visited the University of Oxford in the beginning of April (30 March to 1 April) to attend the Oxford Glymphatic and Brain Clearance Symposium, held at Keble College (website here). It was a very popular event on a …

Subscribe to our ▶️ YouTube channel 🔴 for the latest videos, updates, and tips. Subtraction of 3-digit numbers with regrouping  are explained here with examples. As you borrow from the tens column, you can borrow from the hundreds column also. REMEMBER: 1 …

Alessandro Torrielli visited Durham University on Thursday 21st May to attend and speak at a workshop on “Integrability in (Quantum) Field Theory” (workshop website here). The work shop is part of the “Classical and Quantum Integrability Network”. Alessandro gave an …

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