May 12th : International Women in Mathematics Day: it goes on online

May 12th is a joyful opportunity for the mathematical community to celebrate women in mathematics. The celebration takes place every year, all around the world. Maths Week Scotland has interviewed six women for whom maths is at the very core of their role. Whether it is statistics, bridges or budgets these women rely on maths every

May 12th : International Women in Mathematics Day

May 12th is a joyful opportunity for the mathematical community to celebrate women in mathematics. The celebration takes place every year, all around the world. Université of Luxembourg presents a quiz and celebrate the Women in Mathematics Day with Amie Wilkinson from the University of Chicago as a special guest for this international event. It is

On a pris des biscuits

Une jarre à biscuits contient un certain nombre de biscuits. Trois amis separtagent les biscuits comme suit. En premier, Harold place les biscuits en troispiles égales, sans reste. Puis, il garde une des piles pour lui-même et remet lesdeux autres piles dans la jarre. Ensuite, Lucie prend les biscuits restants dans lajarre et les place

We Took the Cookies

There is a cookie jar that contains a certain number of cookies. Three friends divide the cookies in the following way. First, Harold takes all of the cookies and places them into three equal piles with none left over. He then keeps one of the piles and puts the other two piles back into the

Weekly puzzle: 3rd May

Here’s this week’s puzzle from the British Section. There’s a question about magic squares, and one about five-digit numbers. You should be able to try to find the answers using the information in each question. If you’d like to find out more about Magic Squares, there’s some interesting information here, including two further links to

Origami together!

Send your origami photos and complete the Maths Club’s collection of regular and semi-regular polyhedra! (Ce post en français ici.) You can find a list of animated polyhedra on this website: https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/polyhedron-models.html For any stellated polyhedron, you can adapt the method for the stellated dodecahedron found on the awesome EZOrigami YouTube Channel: And now, a