Writting Mathematical Questions

A while ago we have asked people on Facebook about one of those calculations questions that involves the order of operations. We are always curious what people think about this type of questions. Check out the post and the comments if you want to find out more: https://www.facebook.com/lthmath/photos/a.667617449933995/3615472308481813/ This is a type of question that...

Zero Breaks the Rules

I wanted to announce my first Campaign on Teespring: Zero. The idea of the campaign is to celebrate the importance of Zero in mathematics. Nowadays it is hard to imagine that Zero was not always considered a number and all the problems this thing might involve. The official description of the campaign is: Show that...

First Week of School

School started on 15th August in Scotland and on that day I have also started my first year of Secondary Teacher. I think you can imagine how nervous I was on that day and how scared I was about everything. Now that the second week is starting tomorrow, I cannot say that I am better,...

Codex Silenda : the Book of Puzzles

You know I have been trying to keep you up to date to great Kickstarter projects which are related to mathematics. I think we should support these projects and more people should know about them. This time I have a great puzzle book to present. Codex Silenda: the Book of Puzzles is a five page puzzle...

Transform your holiday into a Maths – Camp

Recently I have posted about my holiday to Romania and what I have visited there. During that journey I have thought at different things that could have transformed it into a maths related one. I feel that every holiday could become a maths-camp if you can find the right questions and use your creativity and...

Visiting Egypt like a Mathematician

I am trying something a little different for this travel related blog post. I have never presented a country in a post like this, but I think this will be mighty exciting. With no further introduction let us start the post: Ancient Egypt has a long history of mathematical concepts and great mathematicians. It is...

Sliceform

I have recently discovered another interesting combination of mathematics and art: sliceform. In general, we call a sliceform a 3D shape, which is assembled from flat slices, forming some sort of grid structure. The ones that I have seen on the internet and made out of paper or card board, and rarely metal or plastic. Now with...

April Favorites

Last day of April today and it is the perfect day of a monthly favorites. This month has proven to be quite hard for me. From 18th I didn't have internet at home and for the first time I realized how dependent I am on this thing. Absolutely everything I do is on the internet,...

A vintage style map of the Mandelbrot set

With the post on The Mathematical Beauty of Nature in a Coloring Book I have decided to write about other project on Kickstarter which are related to mathematics. I think we should support these projects and more people should know about them . Today I will talk about a vintage style map of the Mandelbrot Set,...

How you behave when you don’t know?

Last week I have shared on Facebook an old post of mine: a quote (anonymous unfortunately) on what good mathematics really means. This is one of all time quotes on mathematics, but I was incredibly surprised by the huge number of reactions I have received and also a great number of comments and messages about...