Oct 26, 2016
Have a go at some of these:
An athlete's best time to run a mile is 4 minutes and 10 seconds. How long would it take him to run 5 miles?
It takes one orchestra one hour to play a symphony. How long would it take two orchestras to play a symphony?
On a ship, there are 13 goats and 12 sheep. How old is the captain?
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Oct 24, 2016
Dr Amanda Serenevy is a mathematician and mathematics educator, focussing on outreach through the medium of Math Circles, and on teacher training. This episode appears as number "27+" because the previous episode, Consider the Circle, was about how Amanda rescued a young girl from a terrible time with maths...
Oct 24, 2016
A very short episode about an article written by a young girl concerning her experiences with maths.
At school, she is faced daily with the same worksheet, always refusing to do it. Her teachers continue to give her the sheet every day for months, keeping her out of the normal classroom. She becomes resentful and angry...