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29/07/2015

Girls are awesome!

09/06/2015

If there's one subject that has the ability to impact kids throughout their entire lives, it’s personal finance. Unfortunately, it’s a subject no one wants to teach them. Here you will find a guide to the financial terms that every kid needs to learn.

11/05/2015

It seems like we missed this one in April. Our CEO, Cristina Luminea was featured on Irish Times' list of: Women driving Ireland's brightest small businesses to success

http://www.irishtimes.com/sponsored/audi-for-women-drivers/the-women-driving-ireland-s-brightest-small-businesses-to-success-1.2186256 #.VVB_9wm3a4c.linkedin

Discover the women creating some of Ireland’s greatest success stories

07/05/2015

Everybody does maths!

In a physics class for elementary education majors, I often hear "I'm just not a math person". Here's why that's not true.

27/04/2015

It’s so obvious that it’s practically proverbial: you can’t unboil an egg. But actually, it turns out that you can -- sort of. Eleanor Nelsen explains the process by which mechanical energy can undo what thermal energy has done.

14/04/2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2-363MIQs&feature=share

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science-of-static-electricity-anuradha-bhagwat We’ve all had the experience: you’re walking across a soft car...

10/03/2015

The same maths found in games can provide clues to the Origin of Life.

Game theory math can describe molecular competition and cooperation, perhaps providing clues to the origin of life.

11/02/2015

The problem seems to just be perception.

When teachers think girls are bad at math and science, it has an impact.

02/02/2015

8 hours of sleep seem to work wonders for our brain.

http://bit.ly/1EBdt7g

It’s 4am, and the big test is in 8 hours. You’ve been studying for days, but you still don’t feel ready. Should you drink another cup of coffee and spend the next few hours cramming? Or should you go to sleep? Shai Marcu defends the latter option, showing how sleep restructures your brain in a way t…

01/01/2015

A maths programme designed to produce the next Einstein

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences leverages donor dollars to support long-term investment in the continent's promising young people.

08/12/2014

Teachers being retrained for STEM http://bbc.in/1yZHYPb

Extra training to improve maths and science teaching and a college for digital skills are announced by Prime Minister David Cameron.