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A Mathematician's Holiday

Oxford University

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 tea...

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9 episodes

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, ho...

5:28Oct 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...

9:59Oct 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?

5:11Oct 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?

12:01Oct 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?

9:06Oct 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 wh...

7:47Oct 24, 2014