Delighted with the reaction to my #mathsjamjam song about the shortage of proportional representation literature in Essex, D'Hondt Book Lack In Ongar.

(The jam was, as always, fabulous. Good work, musicians :-))

A maths song to brighten up your Monday morning - this is the first song I wrote for #MathsJamJam, way back in 2016, to the tune of Creep by Radiohead.

Play a little game while you watch the video: see if you can spot the small '1' in each picture.

https://youtu.be/zUAPlhjXdUc

Finally found time to type up my list of favourite things from last weekend's #mathsjam @BigMathsJam:

- Everything running to time
- Andrew's joke: https://mathstodon.xyz/@robinhouston/111398942654647732
- Scroggs' reaction when we called him over to see @virtuosew's kumihimo braiding setup: https://mathstodon.xyz/@virtuosew/111394341231534968
- The sealed box https://mathstodon.xyz/@stecks/111398245104768526
- @WoollyBenguin's amazing talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwRbr-MjwII
- "A dalek is maths because it has domes", from @TeaKayB's talk about maths in museums
- Me and @andrewt collecting drawing hacks (post on @aperiodical soon), and characterizing one of them as "Draw a closed loop; draw the rest of the fucking owl" (see: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl)
- Lovely physical demos from Hugh Hunt (π in collisions, live from the engineering lab at Cambridge) Jørn from http://jaermuseet.no (using a micro:bit to train an audio recognition model, live) and @supersciencegrl (physical models of molecules that shouldn't exist)
- How much people just joined in with things: taking part in table activities, baking stuff, and bringing stuff for the tables at the back
- Playing the world's worst game of darts with James Grime, which we eventually gave up as a draw
- People #volunteering and learning how to do stuff quickly, which made everything so much easier
- People asking me questions, many of which were "have you seen this cool thing?"
- The sheer unbridled joy of the #MathsJamJam
- Doing the local #ParkRun with a bunch of cool people, and it being such a lovely course with nice sculptures and a forest and a lake
- @gavan's great t-shirt that said "Rage Against The Machine Learning"
- Loads of people buying books off me and getting them signed 📚👍🏻🖊️
- Andrew's awesome sketch notes: https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/111397816171053759