Problem of the Week (11)
Solve the following equation: Happy problem solving! Email your solutions to [email protected]
Problem of the Week (10)
You have ten bags – each bag has ten coins (weighing 1g each), however, one bag contains fake coins (weighing…
How to get up early: the secrets
There’s plenty of good advice about adopting good sleeping habits: switching off your phone an hour before bed, checking your…
Proving an Isosceles Triangle is Isosceles Using Motion
While maths is all around us, lying at the heart of the physical world, the underlying ideas and concepts we…
Problem of The Week (2)
In the following diagram, a circle is enclosed by a square which is enclosed by a large circle. An isosceles…
Problem of The Week: Answers
No. 9: Discussion: part 1 of the problem is pretty straightforward. Part 2 is where it gets trickier. Lots of…
Why do Traffic Jams Exist and How Can We Eliminate Them?
The human reaction time causes several unnecessary traffic jams nowadays. While there will always be accidents and physical barriers that…
Problem of The Week (1)
The points A, B and C are the centres of three faces of a cuboid that meet at the same vertex. The lengths of the…
Cavalieri’s Principle
Bonaventura Cavalieri observed that if a set of parallel planes cutting two figures of equal height always form cross-sections of…
Quantum Computing: What is it, what can it do and should we welcome it?
Regular computers at their most fundamental level use transistors to process information. Each transistor represents a bit, which is a…