Parents and teachers know that reading to their children in preschool and kindergarten is important. But how can parents and teachers support young children’s mathematics knowledge? One often ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...

Last week we discussed digital sums and the interesting patterns formed by the digital sums of the 5 times table. Shall we try some more patterns? Look at the 2 times table. The multiples of 2 and the ...