In a former Blue Peter presenter’s words…
Read what Peter Duncan, actor, former Blue Peter presenter and former Chief Scout, has to say about Maths on Toast.
How to make a toasty tangram…
Make your own tangram puzzle out of toast, and then make giraffes, cats or whatever you want. It’s playing with your food, but it’s also definitely mathematical.
Make a snowflake for Maths this Christmas
Cutting shapes symmetrically for a mathematical (and pretty) Christmas decoration
We are small, and multiplying is powerful
It’s just multiplying by ten – but you can go from the size of a picnic rug to the spread of the Universe in a matter of minutes.
Hypnotic triangles dancing
Love this video by Rene Jodoin and Maurice Blackburn
Starry starry maths
All about stars, and the best way to draw them, and how, weirdly and mathematically, that’s all linked to prime numbers.
Infinite origami beetles, and saving lives
Robert Lang uses origami… systematically. Not only can he make any animal you like – that’s down to different species – but he can make life saving devices like heart stents.
Merchant adventuring in York
Maths with a good dose of sea adventure
Donald in Mathmagic Land
Donald Duck and his adventures – with number and shape and Ancient Greeks.
Really hard?
I recently came across this diagram by Peter Salamon, a US mathematician. He calls it his map of maths. I like it because it’s a mathematician admitting to getting stuck.