The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed a vast and radical set of rule changes to how federal grants from all funding agencies are administered. (A summary of the key changes, by a former Senior Program …
The paper “New views of some invariants associated with the Cartesian 2D velocity gradient tensor” co-authored by Ian Roulstone, Sid Clough (Met Office, retired), and Andy White (Met Office, retired), has been published in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal …
Subscribe to our ▶️ YouTube channel 🔴 for the latest videos, updates, and tips. In Grade 3, students learn to solve problems that require both addition and subtraction. These mixed-operation problems help children understand real-life situations, improve logical thinking, and strengthen calculation …
A couple months ago, Damek Davis and I launched the first mathematical challenge at the SAIR Foundation, aimed at “distilling” the ability to solve 22 million problems in universal algebra into a condensed form. Stage one of that challenge has …
The paper “Dynamic interactions and equilibrium configurations of pulses in the two-dimensional complex quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation” co-authored by Matt Turner and David Lloyd has been accepted for publication in the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems. This paper presents a …
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 …