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Maths Week: Saturday puzzles
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzles.)
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Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzles.)
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzles.)
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to Tuesday’s puzzle.)
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzle.)
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzle.)
Fancy another mathematics challenge? (And get the answer to yesterday’s puzzle.)
When you look at virus modelling, staying at home now makes absolute sense, writes O’Regan.
Here are all the answers to the Maths Week puzzles posted yesterday.
The researchers built on their previous finding that honeybees can understand the concept of zero.
The Premier League champions travel to Anfield having lost their last three meetings with the Reds.
The bonus was introduced in 2012.
The woman claimed that the child’s teacher suggested she was given a bad mark because she was not Irish.
The government wants the number of females taking up science, maths and engineering to increase by 40%.
Florida, Florida, Florida…
Tens of thousands of you took our mathematical challenge all week. Here are the answers.
Sarah O’Hara did not get a university place after she failed to get the maths grade needed. But she did a PLC course and ultimately got into the course she wanted.
Boolean Pythagorean Triples is a long-unsolved enigma within a field called Ramsey Theory
Overall, both higher and ordinary papers were mostly ‘very straightforward’.
David Sumpter chats to The 42 about misguided football pundits, Leicester’s improbable success and Barcelona’s symmetrical beauty.
On results day, I held myself together among friends and teachers but as soon as I left the school, I broke down crying in the car home with my mam, writes Jordan Kavanagh.
More students have been opting to do the higher level paper in recent years.
No word on lizard or Spock.
Over the past 20 years, teachers have struggled to successfully incorporate computers and tablets into the classroom in Ireland, writes Fergal McCarthy.
But Irish Water says its sums are fine.
‘I was never any good at maths’ attitude towards the subject needs to change, writes Sheila Donegan, who says maths is an important part of life.
Given the numbers 1 to 1,000, what is the minimum number of guesses needed to find a specific number, if you are given the hint ‘higher’ or ‘lower’ for each guess you make?
In gambling terms, the new National Lottery operator has raised the stakes for players.
My inner space nerd was delighted to be accepted onto the European Space Agency’s workshop for primary school teachers.