Children should be taught magic tricks in schools to boost their confidence and self-discipline, researchers say. A study found that an hour lesson at a 'magic school' did more good for a group of 10 ...

It’s the arithmetical trick that’s been causing delight and surprise but you’d better try it out on friends soon – because the later it gets into the year, the less likely it is to work. Currently ...

Magician Jolyon Jenkins sets himself the challenge of learning a maths-based trick that can not only fool working mathematicians, but seems genuinely magical. Show more Maths and magic go back a long ...

Want to mystify your friends or family by predicting the future? In the third of our STEM Project challenges, we’ll show you how maths can help you seemingly read someone’s mind as you magically ...

Professor Peter McOwan from Queen Mary’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science has produced a series of videos entitled ‘Maths in Magic’ and ‘Hustle’ in conjunction with More Maths ...

The web resource (www.mathematicalmagic.com), which includes the ‘Manual for Mathematical Magic’ and a series of interactive videos, was led by Queen Mary’s Professor Peter McOwan with the help of the ...

A maths wizard has discovered the largest known prime number and it's an amazing 17 MILLION digits long. Curtis Cooper, of the University of Central Missouri, in the US found it by using hundreds of ...