Mathematics - Research News

Two and Two

 Mathematics - Research News
 17 July 2024
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number....

Button-up Some More

 Mathematics - Research News
 17 July 2024
How many ways can you find to do up all four buttons on my coat? How about if I had five buttons? Six ...?...

Wipeout

 Mathematics - Research News
 16 July 2024
Can you do a little mathematical detective work to figure out which number has been wiped out?...

Have You Got It?

 Mathematics - Research News
 11 July 2024
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?...

Interactive Spinners

 Mathematics - Research News
 27 June 2024
This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events....

Tangram Tangle

 Mathematics - Research News
 27 June 2024
If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?...

Table Patterns Go Wild!

 Mathematics - Research News
 25 June 2024
Nearly all of us have made table patterns on hundred squares, that is 10 by 10 grids. This problem looks at the patterns on differently sized square grids....

New mathematical proof helps to solve equations with random components

 Mathematics - Research News
 24 June 2024
Whether it's physical phenomena, share prices or climate models—many dynamic processes in our world can be described mathematically with the aid of partial differential equations. Thanks to stochastics—an area of mathematics which deals with probabilities—this is even possible when randomness plays...

Merging AI and human efforts to tackle complex mathematical problems

 Mathematics - Research News
 24 June 2024
By rapidly analyzing large amounts of data and making accurate predictions, artificial intelligence (AI) tools could help to answer many long-standing research questions. For instance, they could help to identify new materials to fabricate electronics or the patterns in brain activity associated...

Pick's Theorem

 Mathematics - Research News
 21 June 2024
Polygons drawn on square dotty paper have dots on their perimeter (p) and often internal (i) ones as well. Find a relationship between p, i and the area of the polygons....

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