In the final part of this series, Judith Dancer takes a look at supporting the maths development of four- and five-year-olds Whether in Reception or nursery, it is vital that the learning environment ...

Alongside or apart from what adults teach them, children will represent and explore mathematical ideas with their own creative methods, as Elizabeth Carruthers and Maulfry Worthington explain.

The mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot is best known for his work in the field of fractal geometry. He told me that when he was seeking a word to describe his geometry, thumbing through his son's Latin ...

It is the last period of a long school day, and the subject is mathematics. You sit there wondering when you'll need to use these concepts in real life, counting down the minutes until the bell rings.