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MyiMaths and Tablet Computers

By Teresa, 30 May 2013.  Posted in Everyone

Some MyiMaths users have been asking us how to use the site on iPads and other tablets. While MyiMaths works on some tablets, if you’ve tried it yourself you’ve probably found it doesn’t work as well as you’d like it...

Billion digit prime numbers?

By Kristie, 29 April 2013.  Posted in Everyone

In January this year a professor at the University of Central Missouri discovered the largest known prime number, and it’s a massive 17,425,170 digits long! It was discovered using software from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, which uses thousands...

Can your cat count?

By Teresa, 18 April 2013.  Posted in Everyone

We spend a lot of time in the MyiMaths office thinking and talking about mathematics, and sometimes end up having heated debates on ‘vital issues’… such as whether or not animals can count. Or, indeed, do mathematics. Back in the...

MyiMaths teachers at the South East Asia Mathematics Competition

By Teresa, 3 April 2013.  Posted in Everyone

It was exciting to see such amazing mathematical talent from students across South East Asia at the SE Asia Mathematics Competition in Bangkok last month! Thanks to everyone who came along to our MyiMaths workshops at SEAMC, and to the...

2013 is the International Year of Statistics

By Teresa, 21 March 2013.  Posted in Everyone

Have you heard that 2013 is the International Year of Statistics, a worldwide event supported by more than 1,400 organizations? The aim of this event is to increase awareness of the power and impact of statistics on society generally, to...