A Mathematician's Holiday

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Journey with the Mathemagicians as they encounter a number of problems on their travels and use mathematics to find solutions. The series of short videos is suitable for secondary school teachers, introducing various maths principles to students in an engaging way.

10/24/2014

Medicine muddle - Encoding and Binary

Given four bottles with indistinguishable liquid, one of which is a vital medicine, two containers and a test that can be done only once, how can you determine which of the the bottles contain the medicine?

5 min
10/24/2014

Dim Sum - Coding efficiency

In a restaurant where you can order tasting plates of 10 items, what is the smallest number of plates you can order to identify all 10 items on a menu?

10 min
10/24/2014

Fix the Hotel Rooms - Topology

By drawing on a piece of paper, can you connect three houses to three utilities (gas, electricity, water) without any of the lines crossing?

5 min
10/24/2014

The Tiny Lift - Graphs

How can you get three people to the upper floor of the hotel if two of them can never be left alone?

12 min
10/24/2014

Hotel fire - Optimisation

What is the quickest route to get from where you are standing, collect some water from a river and get to the hotel?

9 min
10/24/2014

Bags mix-up- Logic and Decision Trees

Three bags contain 2 t-shirts or 2 hoodies or 1 hoodie and 1 t-shirt, and none are labelled correctly. Can you tell which back belongs to whom by only taking one (random) item from one bag?

8 min
10/24/2014

Late for the plane - Abstraction and Optimisation

What is the quickest route between two points, if you can only cross the runways at a perpendicular?

8 min
10/24/2014

Airport security - Trilinear Coordinates

How do we measure out 100ml of a liquid using only containers taking quantities of 75ml, 125ml and 200ml?

23 min
10/24/2014

Planning the tour - Abstraction and Graph Theory

How do you construct a tour travelling between a number of different cities, but never using the same transport method between two cities more than once?

7 min

9 Episodes

Journey with the Mathemagicians as they encounter a number of problems on their travels and use mathematics to find solutions. The series of short videos is suitable for secondary school teachers, introducing various maths principles to students in an engaging way.

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Oxford University
Episodes

9
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Clean
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A Mathematician's Holiday

A Mathematician's Holiday

Episodes

Medicine muddle - Encoding and Binary

Dim Sum - Coding efficiency

Fix the Hotel Rooms - Topology

The Tiny Lift - Graphs

Hotel fire - Optimisation

Bags mix-up- Logic and Decision Trees

Late for the plane - Abstraction and Optimisation

Airport security - Trilinear Coordinates

Planning the tour - Abstraction and Graph Theory

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