It's Shrove Tuesday today, also known as Pancake Day in the UK. You know how much we love baking here at Maths Week Scotland, and pancakes are no different, so here's a wee reminder of how much maths is involved in baking pancakes! #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #tmwyk

My son, everybody.

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Interesting question from 11yo Young Bill: what's the 'average' of a circle and a square? After a couple of questions, he clarified that he meant in terms of distance from their common centre, and he (quite impressively, imo) built the thing in Geogebra. I've reproduced it in Desmos.

The next question: what *are* those curves? Circular arcs?

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When I woke, my son greeted me with a proposed counterexample to the Four Colour Theorem. He said he’d woken with the idea.

He’d made this map of seven regions where the two that are brown here are discontiguous parts of the same country, as are the blues. This isn’t covered by the FCT, but still - what a thing for a 10 year old to come up with! #tmwyk

For #ScottishMuseumsDay (3 Oct) we’ve rounded up some of our favourite #MathsWeekScot museum activities from across the country! mathsweek.scot/news/scottis... #mathstoday #UKMathsChat #kidsinmuseums #tmwyk
Very excited to welcome author David MacPhail to the National Museum of Scotland this morning for “Legends, Myths and Maths: A Journey Through Scotland” - exploring the myths, legends, wildlife and landscapes of Scotland, with hidden maths. #MathsWeekScot #KidsBooks #tmwyk #UKMathsChat #MathsToday
It’s the final day of our #MathsWeekScot family programme, and we have events & trails in Anstruther, Coatbridge, Cupar, Edinburgh, East Kilbride, East Lothian, Lerwick, Livingston & St Andrews. Details at bit.ly/MWSFamilyEve... #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #tmwyk