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MyMaths and Tablet Computers

By Sam, 7 May 2013.  Posted in Everyone

Some MyMaths users have been asking us how to use the site on iPads and other tablets. While MyMaths does work on some tablets, if you’ve given it a go you’ve probably found it’s been a case of finding clunky...

Can your cat count?

By Helen, 27 March 2013.  Posted in Everyone

Believe it or not, we spend an awful lot of time in the MyMaths office thinking and talking about MATHS, and sometimes end up having heated debates on vital issues such as whether or not animals can count.  Or, indeed,...

Did you know?

By Kristie, 27 March 2013.  Posted in Everyone

In January this year a professor at the University of Central Missouri discovered the largest known prime number, and it's a massive 17,425,170 digits long! It was discovered using software from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, which uses thousands...

International Pi Day

By John, 12 March 2013.  Posted in Primary

For the last few years, keen mathematicians around the world have celebrated International Pi Day on the 14th March. Of course, that's because 14th March is 3.14 in the American dating format; Pi Day must have been particularly special back...

Draft curriculum for KS3

By Helen, 15 February 2013.  Posted in Secondary

The long-awaited draft for KS3 Maths has landed on my desk, and the buzz in the office is around what the new POS means in practice. Over the coming weeks and months we will of course be keeping a close eye on...