Steph McGovern mocks Starmer over PM bid ‘Will you be alright if you’re bad at Maths?’

Sir Starmer joined McGovern on Packed Lunch to talk about the cladding crisis and plans to force a parliament vote to resolve the issue. However, talk quickly turned to homeschooling and how Starmer is coping in the third lockdown. As he revealed he tends to help his children with “easier” subjects, McGovern took the opportunity […]

Shock number of adults struggle with basic maths including change from shopping

It suggests that adults in England and Northern Ireland perform worse on simple everyday numeracy tasks than those in many other countries. Researchers from University College London and Cambridge University analysed data from an international OECD survey, which asked 16 to 65-year-olds in 31 nations to answer a series of numeracy-related questions. The study concluded […]

Are you smart enough to work out this viral internet maths equation?

A maths equation which has appeared on Imgur is stumping the internet. Can you work out how to make this maths problem make sense? The problem, posted to image sharing site Imgur reads: “5 + 5 + 5 = 550.” Underneath the equation the poster has written: “Can you draw one extra line to make […]

An Oxford University professor explains how maths could prove that time doesn’t exist

Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician and author of The Great Unknown, explained how mathematics could prove that time doesn’t exist. He told Business Insider: “If you take the laws of physics, it is actually possible to write all of these laws to take time out of the equation. “So maybe time is just a human invention, it’s […]