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    Geogebra for the iPad Kickstarter

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted September 3, 2012

    GeoGebra is a surprisingly capable piece of free dynamic maths software, used widely by teachers and geometry aficionados. We haven’t discussed it here before, but people have created some really nice interactive tools with it, so we might do a round-up in the near future. Earlier in the year, the developers released an HTML5 version of GeoGebra,…

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    The Bletchley Circle: codebreaking thriller on ITV1

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted September 3, 2012

    ITV will show a new period drama called The Bletchley Circle from Thursday 6th September at 9pm on ITV1. According to the Milton Keynes Citizen, the story “follows the lives of four fictional women whose brilliant work at Bletchley Park during WWII helped to smash codes used by the German military.” Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean are…

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    Ri grants for UK schools mathematics enrichment activity

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted September 3, 2012

    The Royal Institution of Great Britain are offering 72 grants of up to £500 for schools for mathematics enrichment activity. These are available to UK teachers of mathematics to primary or secondary aged pupils to support activities from the STEM Directories, a list of enrichment schemes, in the 2012-2013 academic year. ‘Enrichment’ is activity that is…

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    Game of Life: a play

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted September 3, 2012

    A new play called Game of Life is to be performed from 5th-22nd September at The Yard in Hackney Wick in London. It will apparently “bring to life a scientific theory: the phenomenon of ‘emergence’, and Conway’s ‘game of life’ — an elegant mathematical model simulating birth, death and survival”.

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    Math/Maths 110: Subtraction is a both brain activity

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted September 2, 2012

    A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: A clue to solving Kryptos; The Game of Life: The Play; The Bletchley Circle; Mathalicious: the Video Series; Geogebra for the iPad Kickstarter; Math Requires Crosstalk in…

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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    Video interview show with the researchers behind the science & maths news

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted September 2, 2012

    Samuel Hansen has started a new initiative. ACMEScience News Now offers video interviews with researchers involved in new science and mathematics research. In the first episode Samuel talks to Paul Hines of the University of Vermont about his research into using crowdsourcing to not only answer scientific questions, but also to help determine what those…

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    Arty Maths

    Measuring Square scarf by Sebastian Bergne

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted September 2, 2012

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