Official clarification about this year's GCSE's and A-levels: gov.uk/government/pub…

What's missing from this sequence? No spoilers please!

I came across this sequence while looking for interesting facts about the number 26: a student's "lucky number". To get started: cube each number then take the "digit sum"; what do you notice?houseofmaths.co.uk/2020/04/dudene…

The House Of Maths Blog is back! This month: why the area of a circle = πr SQUARED houseofmaths.co.uk/2020/07/why-do…

What's your favourite way to find the nth Square Pyramidal Number? Here are three methods: houseofmaths.co.uk/2020/08/square…

I just finished my first lesson in using Python. It was very cool! - if I've done it right then 100 factorial is 93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000

Apart from these well-known phrases, how else could we express ambivalence towards two alternatives? How about: "It's 5 miles or it's 8 kilometres"? "It's It's e to the i pi or it's minus one"? Contributions from fields other than maths very welcome!

Thank you to everyone involved in producing last night's Maths Jam shout sheet - we were exceptionally well entertained! 5 were present at East Dorset MathJam , and several comments that it really hit the spot. We got 15 equi triangles, and 22/27 for the fraction of the first shape.

A collapsible rhombic dodecahedron (not, as wife Chrissie calls it, a "rhombi-dongi-ding-dong")

When this is finished, I hope to have a really neat geometric demonstration of why the answer to the Maths Jam Battenburg Cake puzzle is (...don't want to spoil it for anyone still thinking!...)

FULLY-FUNDED HOUSE OF MATHS SCHOOL VISIT (apply by October 23rd): The Royal Institution STEM grant is back! Apply now for your chance of a FULLY-FUNDED House Of Maths visit at your school between Jan - June 2021. rigb.org/education/stem…

Today has been very weird - presenting Times Tables Day remotely. It seemed to go ok, and I have definitely learned valuable new computer skills! youtu.be/Zinm2IYMww4 via YouTube

Online maths tutoring (GCSE/A-level) with Barney Maunder-Taylo Discussing hardware (computer, visualiser, graphics tablet) & software (Bitpaper, Zoom etc.) With live Q&A. Pls RT! pscp.tv/w/cuKJujFyYWpa…

What a blast the Oxford Maths Festival was! Huge thanks to those who supported it, including History of Science Museum, Oxford Brookes University, Barney Maunder-Taylo, Bubbly Maths and MathsCity. If you came, we'd love to see your photos! #OxMathsFest

I've not blogged for a while but LOVED writing this one about the number 91 houseofmaths.co.uk/2023/07/whats-…