Making Maths

Last March I went to study the Mary Harris archive at Goldsmith College in London. The materials of this archive are crucial to...

(a talk by Yael Benn) Yael gave a really interesting talk about her work on those with acalculia, in particular stroke survivors. Her...

On the 25th of May 2022, a small group met to discuss the educational philosophy of Friedrich Fröbel, whilst also having the chance to...

(a talk by Rachel Stenhouse) I found it interesting to learn how students in a private school are prepared for Oxford and Cambridge...

(an Art & Geometry session) We’ve been running an informal group at MMU called “Art and Geometry” since 2018. Before the pandemic, we...

Ecsite is a large gathering of academics and professionals from informal education and museums around the world. We went to take part in...

In April 2018, we helped to set up a seminar which explored a connection between basketry and mathematics. This took place at the Byre...

We presented a workshop on tensegrities to a diverse group of academics at the Anthropology of Geometry seminar in Aberdeen. It was a...

The Exploratorium is one of the largest informal science and maths museums in the world. They were also one of the first to introduce a...

After meeting at the Anthropology of Geometry seminar in Manchester, UK, Tam and Ricardo began working on the fabric bowls project that...

Our initial explorations of tensegrities have helped us to get our heads around what's involved with conceiving and making these...