Bar modelling is not a method of calculation. It provides a diagram to help understand what working out should be done to solve a problem. Bar modelling is used to help understand how to solve ...

The rise and fall of civilisations. The birth of empires. The winds of social and economic change. Solved for 'X', apparently. A team of researchers claims to have unveiled the balance of the ...

Welcome to the University of Sheffield's Mathematical and Statistical Modelling cluster. The cluster consists of researchers working in the areas of probability, statistics, mathematical biology, and ...

Oxford University maths researcher Joshua Bull has updated his model to plot the most probable outcomes from the quarter-finals onwards in the World Cup. Oxford Mathematics tweeted: "Down to the last ...

It’s now possible to predict how likely an endangered species is to go extinct, with mathematical models acting as windows into the future. These models help scientists foresee how a population is ...