MATT:Welcome to The Maths show with me Matt Parker, today exploring ratio and proportion. MATT:Ratio is when you have different amounts ofingredients in a recipe or a pie… and proportion iswhen you ...

linking ratios and fractions close fractionThe result of one integer divided by another. It is written with one integer above the other with a horizontal line between them. The denominator must not be ...

“Do you see the pattern? Each number in the series after the first two numbers is the sum of the preceding two numbers.” That’s how I began my last column focusing on the Fibonacci sequence, which ...

The chart above shows the male-female test score ratio for the 2009 SAT math test (data here). For example, for perfect scores of 800, males (6,928) outnumbered females (3,124) by a ratio of 2.22 to 1 ...

As my first semester of college comes to a close, it is astonishing to look back on all that I’ve learned. However, despite not taking a math class this semester, one thing that I seemed to learn a ...

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My colleague Joni Lakin, Assistant Professor at Auburn University, sends me her latest paper titled “Sex differences in reasoning abilities: Surprising evidence that male-female ratios in the tails of ...

In September I had a post about the 2010 Math SAT test results, and reported on the gender differences in favor of males, who scored 34 points higher on average this year than their female ...