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A quick bit of #Maths in #Museums: The shape of castles and their keeps and towers.
https://tommaths.blogspot.com/2025/10/maths-in-museums-castle-keeps-and-their.htm
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A quick bit of #Maths in #Museums: The shape of castles and their keeps and towers.
https://tommaths.blogspot.com/2025/10/maths-in-museums-castle-keeps-and-their.htm
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A quick bit of #Maths in #Museums: The shape of castles and their keeps and towers. tommaths.blogspot.com/2025/10/math... #MathsToday #MuseumEd
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On Saturday I did a thing in a museum with a bunch of maths communicators (as part of #TMiP25). I'm going to write up what we found later, properly, but I wanted to quickly record that we did it: https://tkbriggs.co.uk/talking-maths-in-museums-in-public-in-coventry/
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On Saturday I did a thing in a museum with a bunch of maths communicators (as part of #TMiP25). I'm going to write up what we found later, properly, but I wanted to quickly record that we did it: https://tkbriggs.co.uk/talking-maths-in-museums-in-public-in-coventry/
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On Saturday I did a thing in a museum with a bunch of maths communicators (as part of #TMiP25). I'm going to write up what we found later, properly, but I wanted to quickly record that we did it: tkbriggs.co.uk/talking-math... #MathsToday #MuseumEd #maths #museums #MathsInMuseums
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New #job Learning and Access Officer (school membership) @leedsmuseums.bsky.social #Yorkshire Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/learnin... Apply by 5 September 2025 #GEMJobs #MuseumEd #MuseumLearning #MuseumEdJobs #MuseumJobs
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Another #MathsInMuseums post: this time it's just one object - Roaring Meg.
https://tommaths.blogspot.com/2025/08/maths-in-museums-roaring-meg.html
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Another #MathsInMuseums post: this time it's just one object - Roaring Meg.
https://tommaths.blogspot.com/2025/08/maths-in-museums-roaring-meg.html
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Another #MathsInMuseums post: this time it's just one object - Roaring Meg. tommaths.blogspot.com/2025/08/math... #MathsToday #MuseumEd #Museums #History #Maths
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This free festival and associated conference in Sheffield in September looks fascinating: Alpaca (Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts) - https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/
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This free festival and associated conference in Sheffield in September looks fascinating: Alpaca (Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts) - https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/
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This free festival and associated conference in Sheffield in September looks fascinating: Alpaca (Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts) - 2025.algorithmicpattern.org #MathsToday #MuseumEd #Maths #Art #Creative
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New #job Senior Producer - Schools and Colleges at V&A #London Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/senior-... Apply by 22 September 2025 #MuseumJobs #MuseumLearning #GEMJobs #MuseumEd #EdJobs #LondonJobs
Senior Producer (0.4 FTE) - Sc... -
New #job Creative Producer: LEGO Programme @nhm-london.bsky.social #London Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/creativ... Apply by 31 August 2025 #GEMJobs #MuseumLearning #MuseumEd #MuseumLearningJobs #MuseumJobs #LondonJobs #NHM
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New #job Public Programmes Officer at Bletchley Park #SouthEast Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/public-... Apply by 31 August 2025 #GEMJobs #MuseumLearning #MuseumJobs #MuseumEd
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New #job Kick the Dust Project Worker at Norfolk Museums Service #EastofEngland Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/kick-th... Apply by 31 August 2025 #GEMJobs #MuseumJobs #ProjectJobs #MuseumEducation #MuseumEd
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What's this? A new session announced for Saturday morning at @tmip.bsky.social ? talkingmathsinpublic.uk/programme/#s... #TMiPinMuseums #MathsToday #MuseumEd
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What's this? A new session announced for Saturday morning at @TMiP ?
https://talkingmathsinpublic.uk/programme/#saturday-social:~:text=Finding%20Maths%20in%20Museums
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What's this? A new session announced for Saturday morning at @TMiP ?
https://talkingmathsinpublic.uk/programme/#saturday-social:~:text=Finding%20Maths%20in%20Museums
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If you're not near MK, find your nearest #MathsJam at www.mathsjam.com/find-a-jam/ #MathsToday #MuseumEd
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The other day I wondered if I'd find any #maths at Bolsover Castle. Well...
... You know I did: https://tommaths.blogspot.com/2025/08/maths-in-museums-bolsover-castle.html
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The other day I wondered if I'd find any #maths at Bolsover Castle. Well...
... You know I did: https://tommaths.blogspot.com/2025/08/maths-in-museums-bolsover-castle.html
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New #job Head of Learning and Participation at Manchester Museum #NorthWest Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/head-of... Apply by 19 Sep 2025 #GEMJobs #MuseumJobs #LearningJobs #MuseumEd #MuseumEducation
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New #job Education Officer at Milton Keynes Museum #EastMidlands Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/educati... Apply by 21 September 2025 #GEMJobs #MuseumJobs #EducationJobs #MuseumEd #MuseumLearning #LearningJobs
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New #job Head of Learning and Schools at Art Explora #London Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/head-of... Apply by 14 September 2025 #GEMJobs #MuseumJobs #LearningJobs #ArtsJobs #MuseumEd #LondonJobs
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New #job Freelance Facilitators @thelondonarchives.bsky.social Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/freelan... Apply by Mon 8 September 2025 #GEMJobs #Freelance #FreelanceJobs #EducationJobs #MuseumEducation #MuseumLearning #MuseumEd
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New #job Digital Learning Producer (Maternity Cover) at The National Gallery #London Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/digital... Apply by 25 August 2025 #GEMJobs #MuseumLearning #MuseumEd #LearningJobs #HeritageJobs #Digital #DigitalJobs
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New #job Learning Coordinator (Maternity Cover) at Bletchley Park #SouthEast Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/learnin... Apply by 1st Sep 2025 #GEMJobs #MuseumEd #MuseumLearning #HeritageJobs #MuseumJobs
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New #jobs Freelance Educators and Facilitators @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social #London Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/freelan... Apply by 29 August 2025 #GEMJobs #FreelanceJobs #MuseumEd #MuseumLearning #LearningJobs #LondonJobs
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New #job Learning and Communications Coordinator @jewishmuseumldn.bsky.social #London Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/learnin... Apply by 29 August 2025 #GEMJobs #LearningJobs #MuseumEd #MuseumLearning #HeritageJobs
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New #job #freelance Exhibition Engagement Assistant at Cambridge Corn Exchange #EastMidlands Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/exhibit... Apply by 25 August 2025 #GEMJobs #FreelanceJobs #HeritageJobs #MuseumJobs #Engagement #MuseumEd #MuseumLearning
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I've counted the number of books I mention in *my* book and it's somewhere in the region of 82. #MathsToday #MuseumEd
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I've counted the number of books I mention in *my* book and it's somewhere in the region of 82.
The uncertainty comes from the fact that it seems to be a bit like counting standing stones in that it's different every time someone tries.
That's possibly because I played fast and loose with what counts as a 'book': there are undeniable books, yes. But also paintings, clay tablets and... bones.
Or maybe it's because I owe my status as Published Author to a favour from the Fae. I *did* visit Cornwall recently.
https://tkbriggs.co.uk/other-projects/publications/the-mathematicians-library/
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I've counted the number of books I mention in *my* book and it's somewhere in the region of 82.
The uncertainty comes from the fact that it seems to be a bit like counting standing stones in that it's different every time someone tries.
That's possibly because I played fast and loose with what counts as a 'book': there are undeniable books, yes. But also paintings, clay tablets and... bones.
Or maybe it's because I owe my status as Published Author to a favour from the Fae. I *did* visit Cornwall recently.
https://tkbriggs.co.uk/other-projects/publications/the-mathematicians-library/
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New #job Learning and Engagement Officer (SEN) at Royal Air Force Museum #London Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/learnin... Apply by 31 July 2025 #MuseumEd #GEMJobs #MuseumLearning #LearningJobs #MuseumJobs
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New #job Freelance Teacher (onsite) @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy #London Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/freelan... Apply by 11 August 2025 #GEMJobs #MuseumEd #EducationJobs #NationalArchives #Freelance #FreelanceJobs #HeritageJobs
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Do you represent a #museum, #gallery, or other cultural organisation in #Scotland?
2025's FREE online #Maths in #Museums training from National Museums Scotland in partnership with Maths Week Scotland is on Weds 28 May, 10am-3pm.
Find out more & sign up here: https://my.nms.ac.uk/0/17854
This free Maths in Museums event features:
- Presentations and exercises led by me (https://tkbriggs.co.uk/services/maths-in-museums/)!
- How to get involved in Maths Week Scotland
- Case studies from museums who've done it before
- Maths in the Curriculum for Excellence (from Education Scotland)
- Meet & share skills with peersThis event is for people associated with a museum, gallery, library (etc) that holds a public collection in Scotland who want to gain knowledge, skills and confidence in creating maths-focused programming and events, such as for schools and families.
Here's the link again: https://my.nms.ac.uk/0/17854
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I'm going to see the Art of the Brick #exhibition today!
I'm a bit of a #Lego fan, but it always reminds me of one of the years we (at Bletchley Park) won "Best Venue for #Mathematics #Learning" at the School Travel Awards. To my knowledge we won it every year it existed, and it disappeared as a category after three goes. Each time we won I looked up the runners-up to see what the competition were doing (in the spirit of "steal, steal, steal; but steal from the best"), but each time I never really discovered anything that I'd consider genuinely mathematical (so no wonder the category disappeared).
One year, Legoland Windsor were a runner-up and, as far as I could tell their 'mathematics' offer was using bricks as a disappointingly abstract prompt to practise memorisation of times tables.
We can do better than this in the #heritage sector - some already do - but we need to make engaging with mathematics a _normal_, everyday thing that #museums, #galleries, #archives and #libraries do, and not just through their formal learning programmes.
The maths provision in the formal learning programme at Bletchley Park was excellent, but there's no way we should have been such a standout winner in that category every time it ran.
I'm always excited to hear about maths being explored by museums, whether it's part of school trips or (and this is the dream) in its exhibitions.
Some relevant links:
- Art of the Brick: https://theartofthebrickexpo.com/london/
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I've had a fantastic and thoroughly exhausting three days at the Royal Historic Dockyard in #Chatham for #GEMConference23, a #MuseumEd conference by the Group for #Education in #Museums.
Three solid days of meeting new fellow #heritage educators and reacquainting myself with those familiar faces that I run into once a year. It's great to hear what everyone's been up to; their successes, failures and unexpected twists and turns.
The conference is a spread of crowd-sourced CPD, with keynotes from cultural sector organisations and academics breaking up an enormous array of 10 minute presentations sharing lessons learned in the field. There are workshops, too, in which a smaller groups of people are given opportunities to go deeper in to aspects of museum learning work. Almost unbelievably, there are also visits to local sites of interest who are eager to share their experience, and much deserved social activities for winding down at the end of each day. This year, this included a drinks reception on the HMS Gannet.
If you're a #MuseumEducator in the UK, I thoroughly recommend joining GEM. It's one of the best professional orgs that I've joined, and the annual conference is an undeniable annual highlight.
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I'm delivering a session to #MuseumEducators today to help them get set up on Mastodon, but I'd like to point them towards some folk who post and interact on the subject of #MuseumEd to get them started:
Recommend me the best #museum #education people in the Fediverse!
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Regular roll-call:
Any #museum folk out there? Especially #MuseumEd folk, and especially in the #UK.
Actual museums would be good, especially if they're fairly active & post good stuff, but what I really want is *people*.
We seem to be few & far between on here at the moment! I'm hopefully going to be dragging a few more into Masto-land so it'd be good to have a ready-made community to introduce them to.
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Working with #museums & #galleries to explore the #maths in their stories is always eye-opening.
Today, I've been reading about a #painting that was stored on a roller due to being too large to hang anywhere. The roller was 19ft long by 3ft in diameter, and the painting wound around this roller about 2 1/2 times.
What can you find out about the painting from this information?
Storing the painting in this way caused some damage so at some point it was decided to transfer it to a roller large enough that the painting wouldn't overlap itself. Of course, the painting is too fragile to figure out what size roller is needed by trial & error (and it's already damaged by this point, and the rollers aren't cheap), so they must've worked out what the new roller's diameter needed to be prior to swapping it.
What size roller do you think they ordered?
The documents I'm reading span a large enough amount of time that the units used to describe things change over time (and they're not always consistent even in reports contemporary to each other), so there are some conversions to do to check, verify & corroborate things.
None of this requires any mathematical knowledge beyond what's expected of a student taking GCSE maths at foundation level, and a lot of it would be perfectly accessible to many primary-age students.
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“The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.” - Sir Christopher Wren
This is an amazing quote, and what's even more amazing is that I understand that St Paul's Cathedral are planning family activities investigating this lovely link between #maths, #architecture and #dachshunds towards the end of the school holidays.
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An interesting article (based on research) aimed at #museum #educators regarding what #teachers want from museums & how best to contact them: https://gem.org.uk/gem-conference-2022-how-do-we-contact-teachers-five-lessons-learnt-from-the-art-fund-teacher-art-pass-research-development-year-2021-2022/
I have some comments (🧵):
"94% of our TAP teachers believe museums are places of inspiration and learning, contributing to the wellbeing of themselves and their pupils."
This finding seems iffy to me. Whilst certainly true, the cohort studied were those who either already had a Teacher Art Pass (TAP) or found the offer of one enticing enough to get them to take part in the study. Of *course* most of them think #museums are useful. It's the 6% that I'm surprised by.
That's my one criticism, though. The findings summarised in the article generally ring true with those from my MA project, which focused exclusively on #maths. I don't know whether the ArtFund project included any maths teachers (I need to check the report to see if this is answered) but the article does state that "science teachers talked about how a museum has to be able to deliver the curriculum better than they can do it in their classroom for them to consider a visit." The maths teachers in my project said something similar, but more that museums _can't_ deliver the maths curriculum better than they can in their classrooms, so they don't want them to. Instead, they want museums to provide opportunities for students to experience maths in context (historical, careers, etc) & to enjoy "doing" (in some sense) maths. A core agreement between the ArtFund research & mine is "most importantly, [...] build a community or network first with teachers and then communicate with them." Longer term relationships, rather than firing off one way mailings, is key.