Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count. If I asked you to write down the number “ninety-two”, you wouldn’t ...

The Electoral Reform Society (ERS), as its name might suggest, is no fan of First Past the Post (FPTP), the system used to elect MPs to the British parliament. But even taking into account its raison ...

Ofqual’s algorithm has caused dismay and an analysis of its method shows the reason It wouldn’t be out of place in a maths A-level: suppose a class of 27 pupils is predicted to achieve 2.3% A* grades ...

The natives of a remote Polynesian Island invented a binary number system, similar to the one used by computers to calculate, centuries before Western mathematicians did, new research suggests. The ...