Kicking off this year’s Rosewell lecture series with Much Ado About Numbers linking Shakespeare and numbers. A massive thank you to Rob Eastaway for a fascinating talk! Loved the Elizabethan multiplication method! Wimbledon High Fionnuala Kennedy #mathsisfun

Well done to everyone who took part in the intermediate Maths challenge . 160 girls in yrs 9-11.

Ahead of the STEAM+ Expo Wimbledon High Maths students researched the impact of #PlasticPollution, and in @ArtDept_WHS they created bird sculptures using recycled plastic milk bottles. The birds and the research combine together into a powerful installation piece. #STEAMWHS #STEMeducation

A wonderful evening celebrating the talent of STEM enthusiasts from Croydon High School, Dulwich College, Northwood College for Girls, SouthHampsteadHighSchool, Streatham & Clapham High School, Sydenham High& Wimbledon High at our sixth #700STEMChallenge! Read more: bit.ly/STEMChallenge2… #STEM #forgeyourownpath #fearnothing @GDST

Retired Yorkshireman solves elusive ‘Einstein tile’ maths problem thetimes.co.uk/article/e20cb5…

John Venn died 4/4/1923. Venn diagrams popularised his name. Gonville and Caius 6th Wrangler,Fellow and FRS. Symbolic Logic (1881) reprint at #MALibrary. Creator of the huge historical biography Alumni Cantabrigienses. Skill as machine maker included a cricket bowling machine!

For more than 50 years, mathematicians have sought an “einstein”--a simple shape that can only tile the plane nonperiodically. Now a retired print technician has found one! My latest for Quanta Magazine quantamagazine.org/hobbyist-finds…

Congratulations to our junior Wimbledon players who represented England Age Group Squads in 3 and 4 Nations Tournaments over the Easter weekend! A great first taste of international hockey this year and we look forward to following your progress in the summer months.

And just like that we wave goodbye and good luck to another set of amazing Wimbledon High Maths @GDST Mathematicians! Smash those exams #girlsinmaths #wheregirlslearnwithoutlimits #mathscakes

Working backwards can reveal hidden connections between different areas of math, said Christian Elsholtz, a mathematician at Graz University of Technology in Austria. quantamagazine.org/why-mathematic…

Do you remember how this recorded message ended… “At the third stroke…” And how old are you?

An old favourite - yr 8 loved constructing these tessellating hexagons today and lots of maths to discuss.

Wednesday's NRICH maths Summer Challenge for under 11s is 'Four Triangles' - an intriguing shape puzzle which can be explored using our onscreen interactivity or pencil and paper nrich.maths.org/141

'Sticky Numbers' is today's NRICH maths Summer Challenge for over 11s. Can they arrange the numbers 1-17 so adjacent pairs total a square number?nrich.maths.org/6571

Look out for #summesolvers Each day in August, at 10 am, we will post a problem from our archive that we think you might enjoy working on. The problems will cover everything from KS2 to KS5 maths. We hope you enjoy the #SummerSolvers

Don't miss #summersolvers Each day in August, at 10 am, we will post a problem from our archive that we think you might enjoy working on. The problems will cover everything from KS2 to KS5 maths. We hope you enjoy the #summersolvers

Alison Etheridge has been awarded the 2023 IMA–LMS David Crighton Medal. The award recognises her work in the two areas crucial to the future of our subject: mathematics itself & support for the mathematical community, especially younger colleagues. IMA London Mathematical Society

Professor Julia Gog OBE has been awarded the Hedy Lamarr Prize 2023 by the IMA. This new prize is awarded to a mathematician who demonstrates meritorious knowledge exchange in mathematics and its applications ima.org.uk/22600/professo…

George Pólya was born #OTD in 1887.

Congratulations to Sreemedha in Y7 for winning this year's Atherton Award! 🏆Sree won the award for demonstrating entrepreneurial initiative, creating her own handmade products and donating proceeds to charity. Read more here: wimbledonhigh.gdst.net/news/2024-07-0…