The ‘28th August puzzle’. Use it today with your class!! (This one featured when Alex Bellos shared some of my puzzles in a PiDay special in the The Guardian theguardian.com/science/2018/m…)

Pretty much the range of responses most Saturdays at Kilmarnock FC when Captain Conker🐿 does the rounds at Rugby Park...

⭐️Computing Teachers⭐️ ⭐️Computing Students⭐️ ⭐️Computing Enthusiasts⭐️ My super talented teacher buddy Fraser McKay is kickstarting a series called Adventurous Algorithms with *excellent* puzzles and challenges - the first is all about palindromes!! youtu.be/KGag3vzJW8E?si…

Latest collaboration: ‘Mathematical Modelling of Quality Banter’ (McBride and Smith, 2024)

Never even liked tennis anyway.

A wee article as University of Strathclyde celebrates 60 glorious years with official university status…they’ve managed to shoehorn in a quote from me! ❤️ glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/24513387.… MathsStats@Strath

A wee article as University of Strathclyde celebrates 60 glorious years with official university status…they’ve managed to shoehorn in a quote from me! ❤️ glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/24513387.… MathsStats@Strath

I've got another 2 of these. I'm going to use them to stretch my most able programmers (my example last time, was the kids who want to write their own compiler for fun). RPN is maybe an odd focus, but it's because of a number problem I did with Chris Smith MBE youtu.be/j3ARIZSyvj4

Sooooo many ‘out of office’ replies to the first #MathsNewsletter of the 2024/2025 session! If you’re still on your holidays, I hope you enjoy what’s left of them… If you’re not already subscribed, ping me an email ([email protected]) and I’ll add to the mailing list!

If he DID invent fractions I doubt he’ll call himself James the FIFTHTH…🤦‍♂️

You’ve heard of the Converse of Pythagoras but what about the Inverse of Pythagoras?? 1/d² = 1/a² + 1/b²

Oooft. Folk go to extraordinary lengths to avoid the number 13 but this puzzle from the latest #MathsNewsletter is proving irresistible!

The month: 2³ The day: 3³ 27th August does have a cube flavour- only 40 years until the year we can celebrate 4³ for the year bit too! #HappyCubeDay

Zing!

We are delighted to announce the 2024 Christopher Zeeman Medal is awarded to Brady Haran. The Christopher Zeeman Medal is the UK award dedicated to recognising excellence in the communication of mathematics. ima.org.uk/24771/brady-ha…

And that’s Issue 688 of the #MathsNewsletter out with shout-outs to Sarah Farrell, SMC and Donal Hurley! Enjoy…

Coming soon: we recreated our #piday stunt for a video about coding a circle/efficiency. It was a bit windy! Python code visualises Chris's journey with Makey Makey 👣⚡️, and estimates pi from it. The video is about ways to improve the original code. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Findlay doesn’t look a day over 8320987112741390144276341183223364380754172606361245952449277696409600000000000000 #FactorialsInTheWild

graffiti….or….GRAPHITI (Spotted in Kilmarnock!)

⭐️An action-packed day of filming with the BBC creating a new batch of Daily Challenges to be unleashed later this month for Maths Week Scotland! ⭐️ #MathsWeekScot BBC Scotland Learning BBC Bitesize