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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...

Reminder - we have moved

By Charlotte, 28 January 2013.  Posted in Everyone

As you may or may not know the MyMaths offices relocated last year.  Whilst your cheque should still be made payable to MyMaths, it should now be sent to :   MyMaths Freepost RSKE-HHHE-KTJE Oxford University Press North Kettering Business...

Drawing with maths

By Darren, 27 January 2013.  Posted in Primary

MyMaths brings maths alive, and we have taken this idea into the real world. We wanted a project, something that would teach us about a discipline none of us had previous experience of (electronics), that made the team approach programming...