Blogs by Lucy Rycroft-Smith

An ice cream cone with 3 scoops of ice cream, some cherries and sprigs of leaves. They are arranged on a blackboard which has a range of mathematical drawings on it

Join Lucy Rycroft-Smith as she weighs in on what the definition of an ‘edge’ is and therefore how many edges a cone ‘should’ have

A graph made up of four bar charts, on top of a purple fabric effect background. A hand is poking up the second bar from the bottom to be even higher

Lucy Rycroft-Smith considers the evidence around sex 'gaps' in mathematics education

A Barbie doll sitting down on the floor, with a range of mathematical blocks and tools behind her. There is also a blackboard with the words 'Math class is tough!' written on it.

Lucy Rycroft-Smith recounts the not-so-rosy history of Barbie and mathematics

Abstract blue smoke against a black backdrop

Have you ever thought about the quality of the air in your classroom? Join Lucy and Darren as they build a DIY air filtration device

The three sides of the Cambridge Mathematics hexaflexagon design shown side by side

Have you heard of a hexaflexagon? Learn how to make one with Lucy Rycroft-Smith

A close up of a blue front door, with the number 1 in black

Join Lucy Rycroft-Smith as she ponders what proportion of the world has an address

A sketch drawing of a man typing away on a typewriter, with the light from a lamp shining on him

Lucy Rycroft-Smith explores the mysterious world of logical reasoning, piecing together the clues about what kind of mathematics we practise when we reason differently

A tree shape made up of lines and circles in a range of different colours.

Join Lucy Rycroft-Smith as she thinks creatively about using tree diagrams, from Morse Code to “choose your own adventure” stories

A dice with an arrow pointing forwards, one to reverse and the words stop on each visible face. Placed in a 5 way crossroad

Lucy Rycroft-Smith asks whether it is possible to do ethical harm using mathematics and looks at some possible ways to prevent doing so

A range of illustrated animals and fauna arranged in an evolutionary timeline

Join Lucy Rycroft-Smith as she explores the idea of evolution and development in relation to mathematics

Blogs by Lucy Rycroft-Smith

On the edge

Gap-gazing, trailblazing, and bar raising

A brief history of Barbie and mathematics

The thinking inside the box

Hexaflexablog

Whose location counts?

Did you mean to call my Holmes number?

Trying trees

Mathematics as an ethical practice

Roman around in maths history