“We aren’t teaching students how to think critically!” So goes the exasperated lament you have probably heard and possibly uttered. The thing is, that’s a crazy hard thing to do. It may seem like a ...
All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them some numerical thinking skills. The new course would ...
In World War II’s most desperate months, the mathematician Alan Turing assembled a team of codebreakers to decrypt intercepted Nazi messages. He tested applicants with chess puzzles, hired a ...