Feature
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?
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News
The Maths Society has launched its own website! We hope you take the opportunity to explore further, and take a little joy and knowledge from it.
2 September 2023
These are the top 10 teams currently competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad, ranked by medals.
Competitions Events
16 August 2023
The Maths Society is proud to announce that this November we will host a Team Maths Shootout! Participation will be local, and you will have received follow-up communication if you are eligible, but we will publish our Heats and Finals papers and solutions, so that everyone can get a chance to solve these interesting puzzles, for the first time written by our community.
Now you are able to show your support for the Maths Society by wearing one of our beautiful badges!
What do I know? Have I seen something like this before?
Competitions
Another Maths Society Competition. Can you submit the most ‘impressive’ piece of artwork using online graphing calculator Desmos? Open to all, accepting entries until 31 September.
14 August 2023
All the details of the junior UKMT maths competitions.
The Monty Hall Problem is one of the most interesting logic puzzles around. It is named after Monty Hall, who hosted the American Gameshow Let’s Make a Deal, where there was a particular challenge that if players picked the right door from 3, they could win a car. (The other doors contain goats)
Interview
One of our most spirited members, Suliman H, caught up with us to discuss his experience of taking Maths and Further Maths GCSEs.
