Honour for Royal Society luminary
Mathematician Martin Taylor is among the leading scientific luminaries on the New Year Honours list.
BBC News, 31 December 2008

Dave Gorman: Why I love numbers (video)
Comedian Dave Gorman gives Radio 4's More or Less some tips on how to add up numbers. It's so easy when you know how...
BBC Radio 4 More or Less, 30 December 2008

Downturn 'boosts teacher numbers'
There has been a huge increase in the number of people interested in becoming teachers since the start of the so-called credit crunch.
BBC News, 30 December 2008

Stars 'misleading' about science
Stars make "misleading claims" about science - and their unproven opinions then "travel widely", a charity warns.
BBC News, 27 December 2008

Sexy maths: warm up with a few festive candles
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree.
Times Online, 17 December 2008

Maths piloted as 'twinned' GCSEs
Secondary schools in England are to pilot a "twinned" maths GCSE - in which maths could be taken as a double subject, worth two GCSEs.
BBC News, 11 December 2008

Poor white boys still lag behind
Five out of six poor white boys in England did not meet the government's target of at least five good GCSEs including English and maths this year.
BBC News, 11 December 2008

Sexy Maths: the symmetry of sneezing
Viruses blight many people's lives in winter but the molecular structure of many are things of mathematical beauty.
Times Online, 10 December 2008

Science and maths skills warning
Urgent action is needed to address "unacceptable failings" in maths and science in Scotland's schools, the education secretary has warned.
BBC News, 9 December 2008

England's pupils in global top 10 
England's pupils have been placed in the top 10 for science and maths in a global league table of achievement.
BBC News, 9 December 2008

The risks of risk management
Banks now employ thousands of highly-qualified mathematicians to quantify risk for them. So why did they not foresee the credit crunch? Quantitative finance lecturer Paul Wilmott explains how a failure to see beyond the numbers might be to blame.
BBC News, 5 December 2008

Archive feature: the "quants" and the crisis (audio)
On 26 November 2007, Radio 4's More or Less asked whether the financial mathematicians known as "quants" were to blame for the credit squeeze.
BBC News, 4 December 2008

Science exam standards 'eroded'
Standards in science exams in UK schools have been eroded and the system is failing a generation, the Royal Society of Chemistry warns.
BBC News, 26 November 2008

Sexy maths: The skills of a chess grandmaster
For a while, the chess Olympiad this year looked like producing a surprise winner but closer inspection of Israel's team sheet revealed that it was pretty much business as usual: half the players were named Boris!
Times Online, 26 November 2008

Southend girl to star in TV's Countdown
A FORMER Southend schoolgirl will replace Carol Vorderman as the maths brainbox on TV quiz show Countdown.
Echo, 22 November 2008

Sexy maths: To infinity - and beyond
The credit crunch has caused some big numbers to be cited over the past months: millions lost in the financial meltdown in Iceland, billions promised to save British banks, trillions wiped off the markets in one day of trading.
Times Online, 19 November 2008

Many pupils fail to master maths
More than 30,000 pupils finish primary school in England at 11 with the maths ability of a seven-year-old, a report by the National Audit Office says.
BBC News, 19 November 2008

Teens flock to new maths show (video)
A new theatre show which explores the world of maths has become a hit with with teenage students.
BBC News, 14 November 2008

Sexy maths: Get the upper hand at poker
Yesterday, Peter Eastgate left Las Vegas with nearly $10 million after winning the 2008 World Series of Poker. There were more than 6,000 entrants to poker's premier event but the 22-year-old Dane outlasted the game's greatest exponents to become its youngest winner.
Times Online, 12 November 2008

Teens do not see science as route to good career
Misconceptions rife among pupils, as image of lab coat professor persists
Guardian.co.uk, 7 November 2008

Code-cracking and computers
Bletchley Park is best known for the work done on cracking the German codes and helping to bring World War II to a close far sooner than might have happened without those code breakers.
BBC News, 6 November 2008

Sexy Maths: why democracy is an ass
In the two-horse US presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain, there should not be too much for the loser to complain about (assuming there is no repeat of the Florida debacle of 2000). A contest involving three candidates, however, would have been a different matter.
Times Online, 5 November 2008