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Should the first lady elect be allowed to refer to herself as ‘Doctor’? Of course she should, says Lucy Rycroft-Smith – does her educational doctorate not count?

To get children engaged in maths learning, we have to make it about play – and power, argues Dr Helen Williams

Mathematics can be riddled with snobbery and elitism. But this book is a lovely tiny step towards the democratisation of the subject, says Lucy Rycroft-Smith

In this Mathematips podcast, Lucy Rycroft-Smith meets Dr Cathy Smith to delve into the world of mathematical knowledge

Hundreds of thousands of pupils today are part of a stepfamily – so why don’t schools know how to deal with stepparents? Lucy Rycroft-Smith describes how her partner has been frozen out by her children’s teachers as a result of schools’ outdated attitudes towards so-called ‘broken homes’

In the latest episode of the Mathematips podcast, Lucy Rycroft-Smith talks to Dr Debbie Morgan about units, algorithms and Numberblocks