mathematics education
Find out how an early interest in Mathematics and Physics led Dr Helen Mason to a career in solar studies.
Plus talks to Jon Walthoe, a commissioning editor for maths book, about finding new books, windsurfing and choosing a career.
This month we are celebrating the release of the new Plus Careers with maths posters, showing all the exciting places studying maths can take you. And the issue is full of vital and surprising uses of maths - from dodging sewage to winning a game show, marketing the next blockbuster to saving yourself a trip up the stairs.
In this issue we illuminate logic, find out why everything's relative, take a journey on the interplanetary superhighway, and maybe even encounter extraterrestrial life.
Adrian Dow has a huge change ahead of him: after fourteen years in the UK and around the world, he's about to return to his native Trinidad with the ultimate aim to open his own school. Plus intercepted him on the way to the airport.
What is maths? Is it an art form with every idea a work of perfect beauty? Is it a quest for truth that may one day deliver a Theory of Everything? Or is it a tool, essential in anything from fighting crime to calculating airline ticket prices? In this issue we show you that it's all of these, and that it can even produce its own media superstars.
The image on the left shows artist Carla Farsi's painting The birth of Hiroshima.
Plus celebrates its tenth birthday this year. Former editor and present executive editor of Plus, Robert Hunt, explores how maths popularisation in general, and Plus in particular, have changed over the last ten years.
If you thought you knew what geometry is all about, then this issue of Plus may change your mind. We explore a strange point-less geometry of spacetime, find out about hyperbolic geometry's amazing fractals, celebrate a geometric formula named after Leonhard Euler, the most prolific mathematician of all time, and try to calculate pi. This issue also contains the first ever Plus teacher package and, to celebrate our tenth birthday, continues our series on the history of Plus.
Plus magazine is celebrating its 10th birthday. To mark the occasion, the founding editors of Plus look back on the beginnings, see what has changed in maths and public understanding of maths and pick out some of the articles they liked best.
How did we evolve our capacity for maths? Does maths piggy-back on our ability for language, or is it a completely separate faculty? Is it dependent on culture? Plus spoke to the cognitive psychologist Rosemary Varley to find some answers.
Former Plus editor Helen Joyce explains how Plus made it big as a part of our series to celebrate Plus's tenth anniversary.
This is the biggest ever issue of Plus. We proudly present the winners of the Plus new writers award who explore, amongst other things, the mysteries of infinity, flight, love and Google. We also investigate the maths of tomography, catch some primes, and have a look at maths in the movies. Plus there's a choice of reviews and podcasts, as well as all the regular features of Plus.
A new piece of free educational software
The beautiful "Maths goes Underground" posters are back by popular demand.
Plus celebrates its 10th birthday!
Karen Reid, whose hobbies include badminton and salsa dancing, is a Maths graduate. She works as a Qualifications Manager at RSA Examinations Board, Coventry and has also taught Maths.
BBC documentary explores the International Mathematics Olympiad
Plus celebrates its 10th birthday
The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics has been launched
ACME criticises split maths GCSEs
More opportunities to study further maths
We talk to Tim Pilkington, a keen basketball player, who has a joint honours BSc in Maths, Physical Education and Sports Science from Loughborough University. Tim has worked as a mathematics teacher and is now working as an accountant.
A new resource for maths teachers
A UK government inquiry into maths education has the statistics community worried.
UK students visit South Africa
The Millennium Mathematics Project wins the Queen's Anniversary Prize.
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In this issue we present the winners of the Plus New Writers Award 2006, the writing competition we set up to find the Plus authors of the future. After a painful process of weighing-up our judges have chosen six winning articles from the many high-quality entries. So sit back and read all about the maths of gambling, the longest theorem in history, the mathematical genius David Hilbert, the phenomenon of the lightning calculator, lies and statistics, and some shadow maths.
Abstract ideas better than real-world examples for maths learning
Great educational thinker dies
A generation of lost mathematicians
If you're worried that a mathematics degree might limit your career options, then there couldn't be a better person to talk to than Steve Hewson. Find out how his varied career has taken him from the lofty heights of theoretical physics, via the trading floor of a major investment bank, into the maths classroom, and has also seen him writing his very own maths book.
World-wide competition to find the master of mathematics
Become a Plus author and win an iPod by joining our writing competition
The Further Mathematics Network and Rolls Royce combine for national mathematics poster competition
