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Group work and giving students time to discuss their work helps to build their confidence in using math in science lessons, a new study shows. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

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Amid a numeracy crisis, students easily bored by math want less online lesson time, new research suggests. More than half of students who felt the most disengaged by mathematics, those who most often ...

The Riemann Hypothesis is one of the most famous problems in that set. It’s about prime numbers. That’s any whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself – like 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11.