Coming up tomorrow is another of those fascinating dates that mathematicians love. No, not the kind of date you have with your boy/girl friend, but the date, date type. At the sixth second of the seventh minute of the eighth hour of October 2010 the date will be: 06.07.08.09.10 or it can be written as [...]

Reading scales is something which we tend to take for granted, but they can be much trickier than they first appear. To begin with children will come across scales where every division is labelled, but most scales in real life do not do this. Litre jugs, minutes on a clock, rulers etc often have divisions [...]