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    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: Hundred square with Susan Okereke

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

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    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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    Podcasting About: A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 9, 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 Helen Arney, Steve Mould and Matt Parker, the three members of science comedy trio Festival of the Spoken Nerd, about their new…

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    PuzzleBomb is a thing again!

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 8, 2020

    Me (Katie) and Paul have restarted our regular monthly puzzle sheets, which were previously hosted here on the Aperiodical, in the form of a Patreon. If you like slightly silly, slightly clever puzzles and want to support what we’re doing, you can sign up as a patron to be sent puzzles each month and access…

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    Updates to Mathigon mobile apps

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 7, 2020

    Mathigon is an online interactive textbook for mathematics, which we’ve written about here before. They’ve just launched updated versions of the phone/tablet app version of their site, including new features and an offline mode.

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    Carnival of Maths 185

    By Katie Steckles. Posted September 7, 2020

    The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of August, is now online at Apud Nimbum. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. See our Carnival of Mathematics page for more information.

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