On a sultry evening last July, a tall, soft-spoken 17-year-old named David Stoner and nearly 600 other maths whizzes from all over the world sat huddled in small groups around wicker bistro tables, ...

Radical reform of maths at second-level - including changes in the Leaving Cert - has been approved by Minister for Education Mary Hanafin. In a move designed to address the "crisis" in the subject, ...

Bob Moses became famous as one of the chief organizers of the Freedom Summer of 1964, when hundreds of college students invaded Mississippi to fight nonviolently for civil rights. But Moses was also a ...

South Africa is not producing enough school leavers who are competent in maths and science. This is a fact borne out by international assessments such as the Trends in International Mathematics and ...