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What do mathematicians do all day?

Solar system

What day is it?

Where do days, months, and years come from? Keeping track of time is harder than you think.

Baking ingredients

Ratios make baking a piece of cake

Cooking using ratios is much easier than working from a set recipe.

Coins tip

Tips on tips

Going out for a meal’s a treat. You’ve enjoyed some good food and someone else is going to wash up - but then comes the bill and the embarrassment of figuring out how much to tip.

Florence Nightingale's diagram

The lady with the lamp

The ‘lady with the lamp’ was also the mistress of statistics.

Food buffet

Counting calories

There are hundreds of diets on the market, but only one basic equation behind how we process food.