Some elements of that earlier vision remain: Math for English Majors talks about numbers as nouns, verbs as calculations, and ...

Margaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2004, writing Profiles and also dispatches and commentary on legal issues, cultural history, social movements, and indie music.

Midhirst School pupils with the George the Farmer book sets they won through a nationwide competition run by Rabobank. One hundred primary schools across New Zealand have received George the ...

Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali on 5 September announced that CARICOM had put the dismal performance of Caribbean students in Mathematics ... needs to start at the primary level.

In the late ‘70s, a governmental decision was made to have primary school students taught not just language and math but also subjects like science and social studies. At that time ...

You know from this book’s opening paragraphs that you are ... In this novel, a 72-year-old retired math teacher named Grace Winters inherits a run-down house on a Mediterranean island from ...

SINGAPORE: At work, Ms Neha Dharma is like any of her other colleagues. The 24-year-old Singaporean human resource consultant ...

In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question. Mathematics started with numbers — clear, concrete, intuitive. Over the last two centuries, however, it has become a ...

In short, why are other people like this? We can’t read people’s minds, but we can do the next best thing: read books. A perceptive memoir or work of fiction, for example, can help you see the ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. It’s (almost) the autumn of a presidential election year, which means that the political publishing season is suddenly upon us ...

The UK needs to overhaul its maths curriculum to prepare young people for the growing needs of computing and data, according to the Royal Society, adding the country was at risk of being left in t ...