My nephew asked for some help with some mathematics. I thought that it would be a good thing to think about while I had breakfast. […]

A bag contains four balls – two red, one white and one blue. Someone takes two balls from the bag and tells you that at […]

This is for Thomas and Emma and all those who loved mathematics at school. We want to solve a quadratic equation which can be written […]

It is easy to work out how likely it is that you will throw six sixes in six throws of a die. There is 1/6 […]

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We often see things that say “No Link Between Cancer and Nuclear Plants” or nuclear power is safe. One of the reasons for this is […]

You may have come here just to find out about unit prefixes – Mega, Giga, milli etc. However, it is a good idea to understand […]