Recently I was invited to take a mathematical puzzles stall to the East Midlands Big Bang science fair. This took place in Nottingham yesterday. I gathered a few friends from the Nottingham MathsJam group, which I run, and we planned what we could do with a stall. We agreed a list of puzzles we could…
Developing mathematical thinking – a generational problem?
We were sent a link to a blog post by Katie Steckles for the Math/Maths Podcast a couple of weeks ago. I’m preparing for the recording of episode 52 in a few hours and I thought I would share my thoughts on the topic here. The blog post quotes another, ‘The Mathematics Generation Gap‘. This…
Why I supported Relatively Prime and you should too
Samuel Hansen is asking for people to support his crowd-sourced podcasting project Relatively Prime: Stories from the Mathematical Domain, ideally by donating some money but also by blogging, tweeting, etc. about this. As far as I can see, Samuel is at a crossroads. He passed his Masters degree in mathematics and is about to graduate,…
Topics from the first year of the Math/Maths Podcast
Here is a list of some of the topics we’ve covered on the first year of the Math/Maths Podcast. The 50th episode this weekend will be live streamed (find out more). Ahead of our 50th episode we’d love to hear your memories of the podcast’s first year or anything relevant you’d like to tell us.…
Math/Maths Podcast – 1 year and 50 episodes later
Samuel Hansen and I have been doing the Math/Maths Podcast (#MathMaths to those on Twitter) for almost a year. In fact, our 50th episode next weekend will coincide with the one year anniversary of our first recording. To celebrate, we plan to stream the podcast recording live as we record it. We will record at…
Too old for such silly toys
Recently I had a birthday. My family kindly bought me a set of mathematical presents, including a Tippe Top, a Rattleback and a Gaussian gun. I show these and my other presents in action (the mathematical ones, at least) in the following video.
HE Mathematics HE Curriculum Summit in THE
There is an article on the website of Times Higher Education (THE) ‘Maths teaching seeks the formula for good graduates‘, which is about the report of the HE Mathematics Curriculum Summit, which I edited. I recording some thoughts about this hours before the deadline for the related funding call as episode 8 of the Maths…