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A Blog Index

Find blogs linked to particular maths topics

01 June 2024


If you're looking for a real world application or unusual angle for a classroom maths topic, use the index below to find a blog that might help:

ALGEBRA      Ice Cream Puzzle   Upside-Down Equation   Greek letters

APPLYING FORMULAE    Finding typos    Rule of 72   Lazy Revision

ARITHMETIC  Catch Up Game   Close but Wrong!  Two sig figures    Three sevenths    Arithmeticians   Zequals   Dirk Bogarde   Boethius Blunders

AVERAGES   A Dicey Survey    Clarity Index    Close but Wrong!

BODMAS    Bodmas confusion

COMBINATIONS World Cup 2026

ESTIMATION   Maths for GPs   Zequals See also FERMI QUESTIONS below

EXPECTED VALUE   Big Bass arcade    Rugby decision  SleepingBeauty

FERMI QUESTIONS  Crossing the road   Hole-in-one  Pole-vault    Pencil sharpening    Richard III descendants  

FRACTIONS   Close but wrong!   Dirk Bogarde 

GAME THEORY  Catch Up Game  Honourable Kiwis  Biscuit guilt   ABBA Penalties   Penalty shootout   Davis cup

HISTOGRAMS  Core Maths   Florence Nightingale

INDEXATION    Close but Wrong!

LOCI  Six yard box

LOGARITHMS  The Rule of 72

NEGATIVE NUMBERS    Underground numbers

MEASUREMENT   Maths for GPs    Inching   Fibonacci distance   Football pitch   The Las Vegas pool   Tennis serve

MECHANICS  Crossing the road    Pole vault

MODELLING   Biscuit guilt   Lazy revision    Edinburgh Trams   Travelator

ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE  From Kilo to Bronto  Zequals

PERCENTAGES    Maths for GPs Rule of 72    16 Percent   Clarity Index    Two Significant Figures

PI   Pi goals

PROBABILITY  Birthday coincidence   Big Bass arcade   Black Queen   Boy girl    Chicken Pies  HannahSweets    Hole-in-one    Monty Hall    Rugby decision    Shooting stars    Sisters  SleepingBeauty  Russian Roulette  Maths for GPs

PROBLEM SOLVING  Catch Up Game

QUADRATICS  HannahSweets   Upside-Down Equation   Pole vault drop

RATIOS  Chicken Pies  Fibonacci distance   Golden rectangle    The Las Vegas pool    

SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS   Ice Cream Puzzle

SQUARE ROOTS  Calculator candles    Ben Stokes

STANDARD FORM  From Kilo to Bronto

STATISTICS  Core Maths   Dicey-Survey   Exam-grades    False Positives    Flood Risks                 Covid spread    Pi goals  Goal glut   Florence Nightingale  

TOPOLOGY  Blackpool Rollercoaster

VECTORS  Tennis serve

VOLUME OF CYLINDER/CONE  Pencil sharpening


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