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In July 2007 we started writing a column for the education section of The Age newspaper here in Melbourne. Some of these articles have also appeared in the education section of The Sydney Morning Herald
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2013
NAPLAN, numeracy and nonsense (13 May 2013) our backup
Tractrix and truck tricks (6 May 2013) our backup
The magic of the imaginary (29 April 2013) our backup
Google's amazing mathematical doodle (22 April 2013) our backup
Pascal's shell game (18 April 2013) our backup
The Book of the monk club (25 March 2013) our backup
Footy's pointless point (18 March 2013) our backup
Sigh! It's time for Pi (11 March 2013) our backup
The golden ratio must die! (4 March 2013) our backup
Hermann the hermit (25 February 2013) our backup
Times tables, times two (18 February 2013) our backup
AcCosted at Healesville (11 February 2013) our backup
Will Rogers, Clever Kiwis and Medical Magic (4 February 2013) our backup
2012
The Maths Masters' Summer Quiz (26 November 2012) our backup
It's Chris mass time (19 November 2012) our backup
The fix(ture) is in (12 November 2012) our backup
Tomfoolery and Gerrymandering (5 November 2012) our backup
The mathematician who won the War (29 October 2012) our backup
Boaler? Boaler? (22 October 2012) our backup
Cordial maths (15 October 2012) our backup
Movies, mathematics and mulsification (8 October 2012) our backup
The devil is in the dice (17 September 2012) our backup
How much is half of a free bet worth? (10 September 2012) our backup
Numeracy, algebra and the cavern in between (3 September 2012) our backup
The Playmobil Mystery (27 August 2012) our backup
The mathematical shapeshifter (20 August 2012) our backup
Chadstone - The maths fashion capital (13 August 2012) our backup
Six of one, Babylonian the other (6 August 2012) our backup
Walk, don't run! (30 July 2012) our backup
How far is 1500 meters? (23 July 2012) our backup
Federation Square's hidden gem (16 July 2012) our backup
Tennis maths, anyone? (25 June 2012) our backup
A zillion and one things to talk about (18 June 2012) our backup
Newly done? Bernoulli done! (11 June 2012) our backup
Seeds of doubt (4 June 2012) our backup
Breaking all the Rules (28 May 2012) our backup
There's a fraction too much fiction (21 May 2012) our backup
We get a Lotto calls (14 May 2012) our backup
Letter from Germany: There's billions and Billions (7 May 2012) our backup
Letter from Germany: The eternal grind (30 April 2012) our backup
There's madness in the Methods (23 April 2012) our backup
Letter from Germany: Four and twenty birdsblack (26 March 2012) our backup
The Wonderful Russian Wizard of Oz (19 March 2012) our backup
Sydney has our tower! (12 March 2012) our backup
Accentuate the Negative (5 March 2012) our backup
Multiple problems (27 February 2012) our backup
Loopy Love (20 February 2012) our backup
Love and mathematics (13 February 2012) our backup
Poet of the universe (6 February 2012) our backup
2011
Maths Masters summer quiz (28 November 2011) our backup and answers and links to solutions
"An infinite nomber of Jewes expelled out of Spaine" (21 November 2011) our backup
Federation Forensics (14 November 2011) our backup
There's no e in Euler (7 November 2011) our backup
Super-duper Sudoku (31 October 2011) our backup
A Very Peculiar Storey (24 October 2011) our backup
The Telltale Tiles (17 October 2011) our backup
Melbourne's catenary chaos (10 October 2011) our backup
Winning the Lotto by the Melbourne Method (19 September 2011) our backup
Apples and Oranges (12 September 2011) our backup
Archimedes' crocodile (5 September 2011) our backup
Eureka! (29 August 2011) our backup
Six degrees of mathematician (22 August 2011) our backup
Parallel lines sometimes meet (15 August 2011) our backup
Get real (8 August 2011) our backup
A very strange set of blocks (1 August 2011) our backup
Sliding downward (25 July 2011) our backup
Spotting an unfortunate spot (18 July 2011) our backup
Fractionally Fun (27 June 2011) our backup
Tut tut (20 June 2011) our backup
Triple-mirror magic (13 June 2011) our backup
Monty Hall in One Semi-Easy Lesson (6 June 2011) our backup
Game, set and maths (30 May 2011) our backup
A rectangle, some spheres and lots of triangles (23 May 2011) our backup
Everyone needs a big bouncy ball (16 May 2011) our backup
The best laid NAPLAN (9 May 2011) our backup
Will maths kill the rhino? (2 May 2011) our backup
How fast is your car? (4 April 2011) our backup
Cool Kepler Cat Cans (28 March 2011) our backup
Freo, faves and other tipping blunders (21 March 2011) our backup
Do women have fewer teeth than men? (14 March 2011) our backup
Pythagoras's Theorem ain't Pythagoras's (7 March 2011) our backup
Print your own socks (28 February 2011) our backup
On the (Allan) Borderline of making sense (21 February 2011) our backup
A Victa-ry for mathematics (14 February 2011) our backup
The pointy end of pineapple numbers (7 February 2011) our backup
2010
Maths Masters summer quiz (29 November 2010) our backup and answers and links to solutions
Mysteries of the Mystic Rose (22 November 2010) our backup
Please say hello to Adelaide and Victoria (15 November 2010) our backup
The equals of Robert Recorde (8 November 2010) our backup
So you think you can beat the bookies? (1 November 2010) our backup
Waiting for the apple to fall (25 October 2010) our backup
The Singapore Triangle (18 October 2010) our backup
The Battle of the Dimensions (11 October 2010) our backup
The incomparable Martin Gardner (4 October 2010) our backup
AFL Finals - more than a numbers game (13 September 2010) our backup
Maths Masters under the Scope (6 September 2010) our backup
Bloody Numb3rs! (30 August 2010) our backup
A show devoted entirely to numbers (and letters) (23 August 2010) our backup
Green with envy (16 August 2010) our backup
Another Century? Hmmph! (9 August 2010) our backup
Rubik's cube in ten seconds or less (2 August 2010) our backup
Uncovering Base Motives (26 July 2010) our backup
Cycling in circles (19 July 2010) our backup
Which way did Natalie go? (12 July 2010) our backup
The ball was in AND out? You cannot be serious! (21 June 2010) our backup
Penalty kicks hinge on net results (14 June 2010) our backup
How round is your soccer ball? (7 June 2010) our backup
Mathsmaster Chefs (31 May 2010) our backup
Theatre of the Surd (24 May 2010) our backup
Around the World in 80 (plus 129) days (17 May 2010) our backup
How to beat a chess grandmaster (blindfolded) (10 May 2010) our backup
Irrational thoughts (1 May 2010) our backup
Bombs, and a bombed Riewoldt (26 April 2010) our backup
What are calculators good for, really? (19 April 2010) our backup
A man with ganas (12 April 2010) our backup
The times tables they are a-changin' (22 March 2010) our backup
VicRoads vs. Pi (15 March 2010) our backup
Some atheist cats (8 March 2010) our backup
Minister Gillard and the other law of averages (1 March 2010) our backup
How far is 10,000 metres? (22 February 2010) our backup
And the winner is ... (15 February 2010) our backup
The year of the magical dragon (8 February 2010) our backup
A puzzling Australia Day (1 February 2010) our backup
2009
The Age Maths Challenge 2009 (30 November 2009) (and answers and links to solutions)
The super-rigging of poker machines (23 November 2009) our backup
Even is even and odd is... (16 November 2009) our backup
Lucky Friday the 13th (9 November 2009) our backup
A Greek in an Italian restaurant (2 November 2009) our backup
What is the best way to lace your shoes? (26 October 2009) our backup
Melbourne Grammar mystery map (19 October 2009) our backup
How to murder a mathematician (12 October 2009) our backup
Metric matters? (5 October 2009) our backup
Do prime ministers share their birthday cake? (14 September 2009) our backup
Pigeons, socks and hairy cricketers (7 September 2009) our backup
The Maths Masters' Tour De Victoria (31 August 2009) our backup
An added dimension to can crunching (24 August 2009) our backup
Invasion of the pentapeds (17 August 2009) our backup
A traffic tangle (10 August 2009) our backup
The Nullarbor Conundrum (3 August 2009) our backup
The median is the message (27 July 2009) our backup
Tour de Math (20 July 2009) our backup
A whole Lotto luck (13 July 2009) our backup
Victoria - driving to the end (22 June 2009) our backup
Crunching can numbers (15 June 2009) our backup
It ain't necessarily improbably so (8 June 2009) our backup
Every number is special (1 June 2009) our backup
Word-flower mathematics (25 May 2009) our backup
The Golden Ratio is somewhat tarnished (18 May 2009) our backup
Angels and Demons (11 May 2009) our backup
Hyperbolic league (4 May 2009) our backup
A bucketful of two-up (27 April 2009) our backup
Strange moves of a mathematical feast (20 April 2009) our backup
Teaching an old spiral new tricks (27 March 2009) our backup
How much is a $100 free bet worth? (23 March 2009) our backup
π = 3! (16 March 2009) our backup
Squaring the Southern Star (9 March 2009) our backup
The pleasure and pain of √2 (2 March 2009) our backup
2008
There's a bear in there (1 December 2008)
The Age Maths Challenge (including short answers and links to solutions) (24 November 2008)
Potter fans crack the code (3 November 2008)
In the arms and legs race it's all about the numbers (27 October 2008)
Numbers give the game away (20 October 2008)
Dividing and conquering (13 October 2008)
Stars make Madrid Olympiad count (6 October 2008)
Arms race escalates (15 September 2008)
Sex, lies and mathematics (1 September 2008)
Soap provides a clean solution for Olympic pool (25 August 2008)
Throwing for gold into a stiff headwind (18 August 2008)
Giving it your best shot (4 August 2008)
Infinitely and definitely, Terry Tao is prime (28 July 2008)
A point-to-point to prove on speeding (22 July 2008)
Why wind is a blow to record seekers (15 July 2008)
What's that about square pegs and round holes? (23 June 2008)
Mathematical matchmaking (16 June 2008)
Excavating a mathematical museum piece (2 June 2008)
Chasing down infinity (26 May 2008)
Living in the zone (19 May 2008)
Fastest path not always the shortest (12 May 2008)
Up and down like a daisy (28 April 2008)
Gallons of strife in balancing measures safely (14 April 2008)
Simpson's paradox makes a donkey of us (7 April 2008)
How I wish I could calculate pi (17 March 2008)
Leaping to Conclusions (3 March 2008)
The Ups and Downs of a Mirror's Magic Reflection (25 February 2008)
Right on the Money for a Change (18 February 2008)
Solving Puzzles over a Cup of Coffee (11 February 2008)
Winning formula but is it cricket? (4 February 2008)
2007
Christmas comes but once, or does it . . . (15 November 2007)
Scissors cut paper cover rock (5 November 2007)
Tally up the votes that count (29 October 2007)
Ringing the changes (15 October 2007)
Smart money is on the science (8 October 2007)
Getting lost and found in the Murphy zone (27 September 2007)
A fair crack of the whip (3 September 2007)
Sometimes with maths, it is a case of it's all Latin to me (27 August 2007)
Taxing numbers take the law into their own hands (20 August 2007)
Too hot, too cold, just right (6 August 2007)
A square full of triangles (30 July 2007)
Pattern Power (16 July 2007). And here is the answer to the question we asked in this article.
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