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Blockbusters of Interesting Maths

By Katie Steckles. Posted January 6, 2023

Screenshot from the show, with Christian in a circle on the right, explaining the 6-by-6 pentagonal tiling grid to his left, which is covered in multicoloured pastel pentagons.

As part of the 24 Hour Maths Game Show which took place at the end of October 2022, our own Christian Lawson-Perfect designed a maths/games crossover gameshow format to end them all – a mashup of hexagon-fighting TV quiz Blockbusters, and his own personal obsession: interesting mathematical factoids. Welcome to Blockbusters of Interesting Maths!

Coding Stories: Programming Polygons

By Greg Benedis-Grab. Posted June 25, 2020

In this guest post, Greg Benedis-Grab shares the story of when he discovered Pick’s Theorem, and how he coded an interactive version to play with.

Have you ever been intoxicated by a mathematical theorem? Well that’s what happened to a class of 9th grade geometry students at my school. Their enthusiastic teacher showed them Pick’s theorem.