News
26 March 2024
The Justice Secretary was again seen wearing our Maths Society badge, this time at the Despatch Box in the House of Commons. The Rt Hon Alex Chalk KC MP, who as the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain is responsible for the efficient functioning and independence of the courts, was answering questions on Justice.
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23 March 2024
The Maths Society recently ran a stall at a local Spring Fair, where we gave visitors the opportunity to win a jar of Maltesers in our Malteser Teaser Experiment. All they had to do was to calculate the most accurate estimate of how many Maltesers there were in the jar!
Interview
22 March 2024
Maths Society member and ‘mathlete’ Ed H speaks to us about how he reached the training camp that selects the United Kingdom’s team for the International Mathematical Olympiad.
20 March 2024
Following his enthusiastic participation in a Maths Society event, The Rt Hon Alex Chalk KC MP was photographed in Cabinet wearing one of our badges. The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice was sat between the Home Secretary and the Business Secretary at the weekly meeting chaired by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was also seen leaving the meeting afterwards wearing the distinctive Maths Society badge.
19 March 2024
The Maths Society celebrates its first anniversary and elects a new committee.
Feature
8 March 2024
What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day, or even International Women in Mathematics Day, than to learn about the enormous contribution women have made to mathematics! Here are a few female mathematicians you can celebrate:
Competitions
1 February 2024
Our Desmos Art Competition was even more successful than we expected, so we needed to extend the deadline until 30 November! Find out who won here.
21 November 2023
Today we held our Team Maths Shootout competition, where six four person teams battled it out to solve conundrums, dingbats, and challenging maths problems as fast as possible.
12 November 2023
The International Mathematical Olympiad is a world championship maths competition for pre-university students and the oldest of the International Science Olympiads, and the most prestigious maths competition in the world.
4 September 2023
Creative bathroom tiling isn’t just a problem for DIY home renovators! It is also one of the hardest and most interesting problems in mathematics. Imagine a bathroom floor made up of black and white tiles. They are the same shape and fit together perfectly, so no overlaps or gaps. You are probably imagining rectangles or hexagons, something you might even have yourself, a ‘periodic’ pattern that will repeat forever. So is it possible to find an ‘aperiodic’ shape that will not repeat? Even if your bathroom went on forever?
