<![CDATA[Math Games - Medium]]> https://medium.com/math-games?source=rss----de4657c94369---4 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/proxy/1*TGH72Nnw24QL3iV9IOm4VA.png Math Games - Medium https://medium.com/math-games?source=rss----de4657c94369---4 Medium Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:20:18 GMT <![CDATA[Did You Know That Circles Are Not 2D But 1D?]]>

To understand why, we must start with the humble string

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Pay attention to the title. I asked if you are smarter than a clever 16-year old, meaning I don’t believe the average 16 year-old can…

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I have been teaching maths 4 hours a week to groups of GCSEs students in Coventry. So far I have done 13 hours.

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I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this which this margin is too narrow to contain

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Is the answer 64% or 70%? Both — and a Bayesian network explains why.

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This is the thumbnail I made for my YouTube video today.

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Change is the Only Constant

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Why changing the breaking mechanism changes the probability of forming a triangle

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From a fixed hypergeometric draw to a surprisingly scale-invariant probability puzzle.

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You gotta use the big old Pythagoras again and again for this

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