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To half and to hold

by Tabitha Gould, 20 December 2019
An avocado split in half to show the seed
Tabitha Gould explores children’s concepts of ‘half’, both in the ‘real world’ and in the classroom
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Local minimum

by Ellen Jameson, 12 December 2019
A small wooden house in a field of grass
Ellen Jameson looks at modelling the affordability of building a small farm in the US
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Fibonacci hierarchy

by Nicky Rushton, 26 November 2019
A close up photo of some old piano keys
Join Nicky Rushton as she looks at how the Fibonacci series links to music
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Toilet UX: a hot button issue

by Ray Knight & Lucy Rycroft-Smith, 22 November 2019
A toilet with push buttons of two different sizes, in a tiled room
Join Ray Knight and Lucy Rycroft-Smith as they discuss the user experience of toilet buttons
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Clandestine design

by Lucy Rycroft-Smith, 04 October 2019
A pencil being sharpened
Lucy Rycroft-Smith ponders the buttons found in a lift and whether they are well designed
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Board games and mathematics: trivial pursuits

by Lucy Rycroft-Smith & Darren Macey, 20 September 2019
A deck of cards spread out
Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey ponder the question, 'can you shuffle a deck of cards with a single card in it?'
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Satisfied with Satisfactory

by Ray Knight, 03 September 2019
An old factory
Join Ray Knight as he explains how the game Satisfactory helps dust off his mathematics skills
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Raining bats and slogs

by Darren Macey, 06 August 2019
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Darren Macey explores the creation of the Duckworth-Lewis method in Cricket
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Typography and ratio

by Ray Knight, 24 July 2019
A sans serif A with a small slab serif A next to it
Join Ray Knight as he explores how an understanding of ratio helps with typography
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Revering our mathematics

by Rachael Horsman, 27 June 2019
A blurred forest with a venn illustration in-front
Rachael Horsman discusses the link between religion and geometry throughout the centuries
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