The Ministry of Education today issued a clarification on the CXC criteria in the declaration of the top CSEC student at this year’s examination. The ministry’s clarification follows: ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), Dr Wayne Wesley, has offered reassurance to educators and administrators across the region, asserting that the rapid integration of ...

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has unveiled a new modular qualification system designed to address longstanding challenges in the regional education structure, including the number of ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime ...

1729, the Hardy-Ramanujan number, exemplifies Srinivasa Ramanujan's genius. His birthday, December 22, is celebrated as National Mathematics Day. Srinivasa Ramanujan's mathematical talent cannot be ...

There are infinitely many prime numbers, but the biggest one we know of goes by the name M136279841 and contains more than 41 million digits. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

For the first time in more than 25 years, mathematicians have proven a new way to identify prime numbers, and in doing so developed a toolkit that could allow further advances in number theory. Prime ...

Every research lab is constantly innovating; either by creating something new or by understanding the equations and statistics underlying each vital subject, the stakes are high. With trillions of ...

In 1972, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) was established under agreement by the Caribbean Community (Caricom). The entity was tasked with conducting and regulating examinations as it deemed ...