I have created a new variation of the famous Beuchet Chair illusion! Details here richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/new…
with thanks to Koestler Parapsych

Super excited about new book by Matt Parker (Matt Parker) - the niftily titled Love Triangle.

You can order in the usual ways.

But for a limited edition dust jacket and personally signed & numbered copy, here’s the link: mathsgear.co.uk/products/love-…

The best professional decision I ever made was to reach out to Mark McCourt. As well as being credible, he has this unique ability to communicate home truths with kindness and candour in equal measure. And then offer all the right support to help make things better. Get in touch

Complaint upheld about Dragon's Den WRT crazy alt med product ... 'this was materially misleading and not consistent with the BBC’s standards of accuracy.'
bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/dr…

The W boson, central to our understanding of the weak nuclear force was discovered 40 years ago CERN.
A BBC documentary 'The Geneva Event' follows engineers and physicists from the UA1 and UA2 experiments from 1978 to 1983 #fromTheArchives videos.cern.ch/record/1004828

Free webinars on our Parallel website for kids taking next week's UK Maths Trust Junior Maths Challenge, todat & Sunday at 5pm. More info at parallel.org.uk/circles
You don't need a Parallel account, but logging lets you answer polls + chat to the tutor (the great Junaid Mubeen )

🎉Did we do it?... We did it!🎉
The best reviewed show in West End history has officially become a double winner of Best New Musical tonight at the Olivier Awards! Boy oh boy, this is glitzy indeed!!!✨🤯

Kevin, thanks for plugging our Parallelograms. Free content for ages 10 to 16.

And, of course, Kevin has lots of great paid courses and free content at linktr.ee/mathsaurus - definitely worth exploring.

One of my students yesterday was telling me how much they enjoy Simon Singh's Parallelograms - these are free weekly math challenges with 15-30 minutes of fun maths, including a lot of great story, context and history etc. too!

Actually, this has happened quite a few times with…

Great new book on parasychology by@chriscfrench out now. The title makes it sounds like a book that Gillian McKeith would write.

All students up to the age of 18 are invited to submit their best Polypad creations by 17 May 2024,

People have used Polypad to create beautiful pieces of artwork, music, games, puzzles, visualisations of mathematical concepts, and much more. They want to see what else you can do! Prizes and age categories at polypad.amplify.com/contest

still 40 places left for this morning ... starting at 10am.

Maths teachers, do you have kids sitting UKMT Olympiad papers on Thursday (or any keen teens). I am running two zoom webinars (100 places each) offering top tips on how to do well. They can register via:
Sunday 10am us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Monday 8pm us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Terrific news. Hugely deserved. A celebration of akward genius. Full-frontal nerdity. If you can afford to treat yourself, Monday £40 for front row, £20 for standing. Declaration of interest ... I put some ££ into getting this to the West End because it was so bloody brilliant.

🎉Attention!🎉
Operation Mincemeat has earned 6‼️ Olivier Awards nominations! Shiny tuxedos at the ready!🤵✨ #OlivierAwards #OperationMincemeat

As @slsingh pointed out at yesterday's #mathssummit , the UK arguably leads the world in maths communication - be that through books, videos, podcasts or live speaker events.

In short, we can communicate the importance and joy of maths until the cows come home, but we already have many, many budding mathematicians who fall through the holes because schools don't have the teachers and resources to support them through secondary school.

Okay ... I'll admit ... I don't know how to write a twitter thread, so single posts for the last couple and you can try and fit them together.