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Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Today I'm putting the finishing touches to "The Hidden Maths of Knitting", my talk at Mathsworld in London next Tuesday (https://mathsworld.com/events/Knitting for tickets). I will be demonstrating an actual working knitting machine in my talk, as well as talking about just a few of the ways maths and knitting are intertwined. It would be great to see some Mastodon buddies there, if only so you can nag me and remind me to toot more regularly!
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
My knitted blanket will be three times as wide as it is now, once I finish sewing it up. I wonder what fraction of the sewing I've done -is it also a third? 🤔
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Recently I had occasion to pose a question "which is more likely, flipping 10 heads in a row with a normal coin or getting four sixes in a row with a normal six sided die/dice". I asked a couple of people to work it out in their heads and was interested that there are a few different approaches. How would you decide which is more likely? What calculations would you do? What do you already know without needing to calculate that you can use to help?
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them
Sharing a Belgian Bun when the cherry is off-centre can end up a little unfair... Mathematically speaking, if we assume the bun is a cylinder and the cherry is a hemisphere, could I have found a fairer way to share it? Is it always possible to share a Belgian Bun fairly, regardless of where the cherry is placed on top?
I'm assuming both parties want equal amounts of bun and cherry.