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 ...

This page provides an overview of the remarkable work of Scott W. Williams, PhD, Emeritus Professor, UB Mathematics. Dr. Williams joined our faculty in 1971, as Assistant Professor of Mathematics. In ...

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

Marcus Garvey — entrepreneur, founder, and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League once stated: “A people without knowledge of their past ...

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 ...

Professors and graduate students from the University of Minnesota will soon teach a course in Africa as the result of a new international partnership. The University’s School of Mathematics announced ...

There are six mathletes left in Cruxlearning Mathematics Contest Africa (CLMCA) as the race for the title of the champion and university scholarship gets to the final lap this week. Twelve mathletes ...

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, ...

Maths teacher Diarra Bousso Gueye was grading a set of algebra papers when she had a Eureka moment. Gueye, who had long harbored fashion aspirations from her childhood when she made clothes for her ...

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Rwanda has graduated 43 students from its Regular Master's Programme, with leaders urging the young scientists to harness their skills to address ...