School mathematics in South Africa is often seen as a sign of the health of the education system more generally. Under the racial laws of apartheid, until 1994, African people were severely restricted ...

General introduction -- Beginnings : mathematics of bones -- Geometry south of the Sahara -- Numbers -- Beginnings of written mathematics: Egypt -- The Maghrebian tradition -- Combinatorics and ...

A young Nigerian teenager has recently beat out contestants from around the globe in a mathematics competition. Here are our top three winners in the Senior Category of the Global Open Mathematics ...

South Africa has been struggling with mathematics education for quite some time now. It seems that something is always going wrong, and the students are not being taught what they need to know. In ...

ALBERT AGISHA NTWALI was resigned to becoming a maths teacher at a secondary school. The 23-year-old from Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo was a stellar undergraduate at his local university ...

The dreams of Tanzanian youth to shine globally in science have gained fresh momentum after 34 outstanding mathematics ...

The initiative between The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities and ARUA is a new collaboration between mathematics researchers working throughout all regions of Africa and Europe, ...

During a recent workshop at the University of Rwanda's College of Education, mathematics lecturers from across East Africa under the the East African Mathematics Education and Research Network (EAMERN ...

Happy Pi Day! Cheers to black female mathematicians. Today, March 14 (3/14), marks the annual celebration because the date represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant π (pi), ...

Only one in three matriculants took pure Mathematics in 2025. For a country where STEM skills are officially classified as critical - and where the National Development Plan targets 450 000 university ...

As the world observes the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February, the South African Mathematics Foundation (SAMF) has sent an urgent message to schools, educators, and parents: ...