As year-end exams come to a close, the pressure mounts for high school pupils and their families to decide whether to continue with Pure Mathematics or switch to Maths Literacy. This choice signifies ...

Imagine 100 dots scattered in front of you. In a haphazard variation on connect-the-dots, start drawing lines between the points. How many lines can you draw without producing a triangle? A square? An ...

Ask any of your friends and you’ll get a lot of negative answers and hatred for maths. I bet at least one of them will tell you something like “I don’t know why I learnt Trigonometry at school, I’ve ...