464 SA Schools Ditch Maths – Teacher Unions Slam Department’s “Chronic Failure”
With 464 schools dropping maths and a teacher shortage spiralling, unions say the education department is failing fast, and learners are paying the price.
Van Gogh Depicted Something In His ‘Starry Night’ That Scientists Only Figured Out Recently [Video]
Starry Night might just be the splashing of a one-eared madman in a French asylum, but, strangely, Van Gogh managed to capture something so distinct in his work that it showed up in Hubble Space Telescope observations a century later.
Math Goes Gaga Over ‘The Miracle That Disrupts Order’ [Video & Confusion Alert]
Called the Hat, the 13-sided shape can be arranged in tile formation forever and it will never repeat a pattern.
The Dire State Of Matric Maths In South Africa
The latest figures show that the country is failing to deliver a decent mathematics education to learners, and the consequences are far-reaching.
Palindrome Fans Are In For A Once In A Millenium Treat On Sunday
This Sunday, something will happen that only happens once every 1 000 years. It’s one for the nerds.
Superhumans Exist – Fascinating Tales Of Real People With Mind-Blowing Talents
Forget Marvel, because there are those out there with unique gifts and talents that seem to prove the existence of superhumans.
Have You Ever Seen A Maths Literacy Grade 12 Paper? Check This Out [Images]
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a matric exam paper, and I had no idea what a Maths Literacy Paper entails. Come, learn with me.
Peak Snowflake: Students ‘Triggered’ By Question In Maths Exam
A maths exam question from a UK GCSE paper sparked a number of complaints, after students claimed it triggered them.
Solve One Of These Six Maths Problems And You Win $1 Million
Grigori Perelman famously solved the Poincare Conjecture in 2006. The remaining six problems so important that solving any one of them would make you rich.
No, 2017’s Maths And Science Matric Results Weren’t Better Than Previous Years
Many have been harking on about our improved science and maths results, but if you scratch just beneath the surface you’ll find it’s not all roses.
A Maths Formula To Explain Why All Hipsters Look The Same
Why are hipsters so annoying? Why are there so many of them? Why do they look the same? Apparently maths has the answer.
This Maths Problem Has Gone Viral
First it was that dress, then it was a cat walking up (or down) some stairs and now it’s a maths problem. The internet can be a real drag sometimes.
They’re Gong To Make Matric Exams Difficult Again
Nothing pleases the Department of Education more than an ever-increasing matric pass rate. But, shock and horror, this year it is predicted that the pass rate will actually fall by a few percent.
Maths Explains Why Hipsters All Eventually Synchronise
Science can explain a lot of things – the weather, space, evolution. It can also explain why hipsters, when trying to be a group of nonconformists, all look EXACTLY the same.
Dumbed-Down Nation – Click To See Where SA Comes In The World For Maths / Science Education
The quality of South Africa’s maths and science education places us last out of 148 countries, according to a World Economic Forum report. Is there a solution to the on-going problem?
Awesome Maths Questions From North Korean Text Books
Russian historian, Andrei Lankov lived in Pyongyang in the 1980’s, where he was an exchange student. His forthcoming book takes a look at how the government established a tight grip on the lives of everyday North Koreans. Take, for example, these anti-US questions cited by Lankov in a North Korean student textbook.
Refugee Lands Maths Teacher’s Job By Explaining Equations To Passing Shoppers
Eight years after leaving his home country, this Congolese refugee can finally say his expectations of a better future in South Africa have been met. Fernando Brice Olivier Ogadi, 35, has just received a job offer in the profession he is qualified in – as a school maths teacher. His new employer noticed him in a parking lot giving free maths lessons.