Good maths isn’t about remembering and regurgitating a hundred different facts. It’s about spotting relationships.
What Does the Equal Sign mean, actually?
Ask most children and adults what the equal sign means and you’ll likely hear, “That’s where the answer goes.” But studies have shown that seeing the equal sign as a prompt to write an answer has a serious impact on children’s mathematical understanding, especially when it comes to algebra and reasoning.
The Amazing Fractals in African Culture: Geometry with Meaning
To use fractals is to honour rhythm, continuity and complexity. It is to acknowledge that everything has a place in the pattern of the whole.
The Ishango Bone, more evidence of Africa’s ancient Mathematical heritage
The Ishango Bone is a powerful reminder that Africa led humans in mathematics, being much odler than any artefacts from elsewhere in the world.
Hidden history: The African roots of Algebra
Long before the Greeks, in the land of Kemet — known today as Ancient Egypt — people were already solving algebraic problems.