If you are interested in the real-world applications of numbers, discrete mathematics may be the concentration for you. Because discrete mathematics is the language of computing, it complements the ...

Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right? At primary school we learn how to do long multiplication like this: Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians ...

Professor of Education and Mathematics Education, University of the Witwatersrand At a time when decolonisation, part of which involves changing the content of what’s taught, is dominating debate at ...