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    Upcoming Mathematical Events/Competitions in October 2020

    By Katie Steckles. Posted October 1, 2020

    Here’s a round-up of some mathematical events and competitions that might be of interest, happening from October.

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    Aperiodical News Round-up – September 2020

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 30, 2020

    Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news stories from this month.

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    Mobile Numbers: Cellular Automaton

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 26, 2020

    In this series of posts, Katie investigates simple mathematical concepts using the Google Sheets spreadsheet app on her phone. If you have a simple maths trick, pattern or concept you’d like to see illustrated in this series, please get in touch. Spreadsheets are wonderfully versatile, and the fact that I can now carry spreadsheets around on my…

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    Podcasting About: Plus’ Maths on the Move podcast

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 23, 2020

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    In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical podcasts from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the podcast and asking them about what they do. We spoke to Plus Magazine editors Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas about their podcast, Maths on the Move.

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    Competitions

    Aperiodical Design Competition: Fractal Bunting

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 22, 2020

    Since people might be looking for something distracting they can do at home around now, we’re running another fun competition to keep you occupied – much like our π-ku poetry competition in July, we’re looking for anyone who has a spare slice of brain to come up with a design for our fractal bunting competition.

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    Sock, Horror indeed

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 22, 2020

    You might have seen our Aperiodical Round-Up post, which was posted recently despite languishing in the drafts folder for six years. It wasn’t alone in there, and we’ve found a few other posts which somehow didn’t get published at the time, which we’re planning to release any day now when we get a minute. Enjoy…

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    Mathematical Objects

    Mathematical Objects: Hundred square with Susan Okereke

    By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Posted September 18, 2020

    Grid of numbers 1 to 100

    A conversation about mathematics and education inspired by a hundred square. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Susan Okereke. In the episode, we mentioned the original Prime Climb colouring sheet and Peter’s Prime Climb colouring sheet on GitHub as drawing-primes. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List…

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