Learn easy mental maths tricks for percentages, multiplying by 11 and the Rule of 72 to boost everyday confidence.

At 3:14 p.m. on March 14, Hamilton student John-David Petz will attempt to break a Guinness World Record by reciting 314 digits of pi in one minute. Pi, which has an approximate value of 3.14 and an ...

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Every time you pay online, your data is protected by a maths problem nobody has proved is unbreakable. Here is what that means, and why the world is already preparing for the worst.