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From July 2007 until October 2014 we wrote the Maths Masters column for the education section of Melbourne's AGE newspaper. This column appeared in print until the end of 2008 and then online. The full archive of our columns is below.
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2014
Parabolic playtime (27 October 2014)
Martin Gardner and Mr Hyde (20 October 2014)
How to cook a telescope (13 October 2014)
We have it pegged (6 October 2014)
The hidden karma of snakes and ladders (15 September 2014)
Christian's Goldbach's magic sum (8 September 2014)
The wonderful Function of Michael Deakin (1 September 2014)
The eternal triangles (25 August 2014)
Proofs without words (18 August 2014)
Tickling Orion with a triangle (11 August 2014)
The statistical problem of greedy pigs (4 August 2014)
A Penney for your thoughts (28 July 2014)
The Freddo Frog path to perfection (21 July 2014)
Escape to our moon planet (14 July 2014)
The paradox of Australian mathematics education (23 June 2014)
Just the right level of wine (16 June 2014)
Socceroos and the group of death (6 June 2014)
The doodle, the witch and Maria (26 May 2014)
Mystery of Flight MH370 adds up (19 May 2014)
Naplan in Kafkaland (9 May 2014)
Diophantine footy (5 May 2014)
Calendar kinks (25 April 2014)
The media lottery (31 March 2014)
Shadowlands (24 March 2014)
Squares, triangles and other labour-saving devices (17 March 2014)
Melbourne's twilight zone (10 March 2014)
On primes and Pluto (3 March 2014)
Choc-full of mathematics (23 February 2014)
Lies, damn lies and YouTube (16 February 2014)
Clearing a logjam (10 February 2014)
Methods Acting (3 February 2014)
2013
Maths Masters' summer quiz (9 December 2013)
Shooting log(fish) in a barrel (2 December 2013)
Reach for the Skylanders! (25 November 2013)
Melbourne mathematical model (18 November 2013)
The root of our problems (11 November 2013)
Picture perfect (4 November 2013)
Divide and conquer (28 October 2013)
Visionary Voronoi (21 October 2013)
Advances in VCE Mathematics (10 October 2013)
Educational Barbs (16 September 2013)
Triangle Surfer Dude (9 September 2013)
Adventures in MathleticsLand (2 September 2013)
The maths of planet Mars (26 August 2013)
The Professor’s Beloved Equation (19 August 2013)
The greatest team of all (12 August 2013)
One shape to rule them all! (5 August 2013)
Sneaky square dance (29 July 2013)
Imagine all the people (22 July 2013)
The Klein Bottle Beach House (15 July 2013)
Pitching a ballcurve (24 June 2013)
Parabolic production line (17 June 2013)
Fibonacci, Steve Jobs and the Devlin in the details (10 June 2013)
Demystifying the Möbius (3 June 2013)
Hatcheting a plan (27 May 2013)
A very distant twin (20 May 2013)
NAPLAN, numeracy and nonsense (13 May 2013)
Tractrix and truck tricks (6 May 2013)
The magic of the imaginary (29 April 2013)
Google's amazing mathematical doodle (22 April 2013)
Pascal's shell game (18 April 2013)
The Book of the monk club (25 March 2013)
Footy's pointless point (18 March 2013)
Sigh! It's time for Pi (11 March 2013)
The golden ratio must die! (4 March 2013)
Hermann the hermit (25 February 2013)
Times tables, times two (18 February 2013)
AcCosted at Healesville (11 February 2013)
Will Rogers, Clever Kiwis and Medical Magic (4 February 2013)
2012
The Maths Masters' Summer Quiz (26 November 2012)
It's Chris mass time (19 November 2012)
The fix(ture) is in (12 November 2012)
Tomfoolery and Gerrymandering (5 November 2012)
The mathematician who won the War (29 October 2012)
Boaler? Boaler? (22 October 2012)
Cordial maths (15 October 2012)
Movies, mathematics and mulsification (8 October 2012)
The devil is in the dice (17 September 2012)
How much is half of a free bet worth? (10 September 2012)
Numeracy, algebra and the cavern in between (3 September 2012)
The Playmobil Mystery (27 August 2012)
The mathematical shapeshifter (20 August 2012)
Chadstone - The maths fashion capital (13 August 2012)
Six of one, Babylonian the other (6 August 2012)
Walk, don't run! (30 July 2012)
How far is 1500 meters? (23 July 2012)
Federation Square's hidden gem (16 July 2012)
Tennis maths, anyone? (25 June 2012)
A zillion and one things to talk about (18 June 2012)
Newly done? Bernoulli done! (11 June 2012)
Seeds of doubt (4 June 2012)
Breaking all the Rules (28 May 2012)
There's a fraction too much fiction (21 May 2012)
We get a Lotto calls (14 May 2012)
Letter from Germany: There's billions and Billions (7 May 2012)
Letter from Germany: The eternal grind (30 April 2012)
There's madness in the Methods (23 April 2012)
Letter from Germany: Four and twenty birdsblack (26 March 2012)
The Wonderful Russian Wizard of Oz (19 March 2012)
Sydney has our tower! (12 March 2012)
Accentuate the Negative (5 March 2012)
Multiple problems (27 February 2012)
Loopy Love (20 February 2012)
Love and mathematics (13 February 2012)
Poet of the universe (6 February 2012)
2011
Maths Masters summer quiz (28 November 2011)
"An infinite nomber of Jewes expelled out of Spaine" (21 November 2011)
Federation Forensics (14 November 2011)
There's no e in Euler (7 November 2011)
Super-duper Sudoku (31 October 2011)
A Very Peculiar Storey (24 October 2011)
The Telltale Tiles (17 October 2011)
Melbourne's catenary chaos (10 October 2011)
Winning the Lotto by the Melbourne Method (19 September 2011)
Apples and Oranges (12 September 2011)
Archimedes' crocodile (5 September 2011)
Eureka! (29 August 2011)
Six degrees of mathematician (22 August 2011)
Parallel lines sometimes meet (15 August 2011)
Get real (8 August 2011)
A very strange set of blocks (1 August 2011)
Sliding downward (25 July 2011)
Spotting an unfortunate spot (18 July 2011)
Fractionally Fun (27 June 2011)
Tut tut (20 June 2011)
Triple-mirror magic (13 June 2011)
Monty Hall in One Semi-Easy Lesson (6 June 2011)
Game, set and maths (30 May 2011)
A rectangle, some spheres and lots of triangles (23 May 2011)
Everyone needs a big bouncy ball (16 May 2011)
The best laid NAPLAN (9 May 2011)
Will maths kill the rhino? (2 May 2011)
How fast is your car? (4 April 2011)
Cool Kepler Cat Cans (28 March 2011)
Freo, faves and other tipping blunders (21 March 2011)
Do women have fewer teeth than men? (14 March 2011)
Pythagoras's Theorem ain't Pythagoras's (7 March 2011)
Print your own socks (28 February 2011)
On the (Allan) Borderline of making sense (21 February 2011)
A Victa-ry for mathematics (14 February 2011)
The pointy end of pineapple numbers (7 February 2011)
2010
Maths Masters summer quiz (29 November 2010)
Mysteries of the Mystic Rose (22 November 2010)
Please say hello to Adelaide and Victoria (15 November 2010)
The equals of Robert Recorde (8 November 2010)
So you think you can beat the bookies? (1 November 2010)
Waiting for the apple to fall (25 October 2010)
The Singapore Triangle (18 October 2010)
The Battle of the Dimensions (11 October 2010)
The incomparable Martin Gardner (4 October 2010)
AFL Finals - more than a numbers game (13 September 2010)
Maths Masters under the Scope (6 September 2010)
Bloody Numb3rs! (30 August 2010)
A show devoted entirely to numbers (and letters) (23 August 2010)
Green with envy (16 August 2010)
Another Century? Hmmph! (9 August 2010)
Rubik's cube in ten seconds or less (2 August 2010)
Uncovering Base Motives (26 July 2010)
Cycling in circles (19 July 2010)
Which way did Natalie go? (12 July 2010)
The ball was in AND out? You cannot be serious! (21 June 2010)
Penalty kicks hinge on net results (14 June 2010)
How round is your soccer ball? (7 June 2010)
Mathsmaster Chefs (31 May 2010)
Theatre of the Surd (24 May 2010)
Around the World in 80 (plus 129) days (17 May 2010)
How to beat a chess grandmaster (blindfolded) (10 May 2010)
Irrational thoughts (1 May 2010)
Bombs, and a bombed Riewoldt (26 April 2010)
What are calculators good for, really? (19 April 2010)
A man with ganas (12 April 2010)
The times tables they are a-changin' (22 March 2010)
VicRoads vs. Pi (15 March 2010)
Some atheist cats (8 March 2010)
Minister Gillard and the other law of averages (1 March 2010)
How far is 10,000 metres? (22 February 2010)
And the winner is ... (15 February 2010)
The year of the magical dragon (8 February 2010)
A puzzling Australia Day (1 February 2010)
2009
The Age Maths Challenge 2009 (30 November 2009)
The super-rigging of poker machines (23 November 2009)
Even is even and odd is... (16 November 2009)
Lucky Friday the 13th (9 November 2009)
A Greek in an Italian restaurant (2 November 2009)
What is the best way to lace your shoes? (26 October 2009)
Melbourne Grammar mystery map (19 October 2009)
How to murder a mathematician (12 October 2009)
Metric matters? (5 October 2009)
Do prime ministers share their birthday cake? (14 September 2009)
Pigeons, socks and hairy cricketers (7 September 2009)
The Maths Masters' Tour De Victoria (31 August 2009)
An added dimension to can crunching (24 August 2009)
Invasion of the pentapeds (17 August 2009)
A traffic tangle (10 August 2009)
The Nullarbor Conundrum (3 August 2009)
The median is the message (27 July 2009)
Tour de Math (20 July 2009)
A whole Lotto luck (13 July 2009)
Victoria - driving to the end (22 June 2009)
Crunching can numbers (15 June 2009)
It ain't necessarily improbably so (8 June 2009)
Every number is special (1 June 2009)
Word-flower mathematics (25 May 2009)
The Golden Ratio is somewhat tarnished (18 May 2009)
Angels and Demons (11 May 2009)
Hyperbolic league (4 May 2009)
A bucketful of two-up (27 April 2009)
Strange moves of a mathematical feast (20 April 2009)
Teaching an old spiral new tricks (27 March 2009)
How much is a $100 free bet worth? (23 March 2009)
π = 3! (16 March 2009)
Squaring the Southern Star (9 March 2009)
The pleasure and pain of √2 (2 March 2009)
2008
There's a bear in there (1 December 2008) Scan
The Age Maths Challenge (including short answers and links to solutions) (24 November 2008) Scan1 Scan2
Potter fans crack the code (3 November 2008) Scan
In the arms and legs race it's all about the numbers (27 October 2008) Scan
Numbers give the game away (20 October 2008) Scan
Dividing and conquering (13 October 2008) Scan
Stars make Madrid Olympiad count (6 October 2008) Scan
Arms race escalates (15 September 2008) Scan
Sex, lies and mathematics (1 September 2008) Scan
Soap provides a clean solution for Olympic pool (25 August 2008) Scan
Throwing for gold into a stiff headwind (18 August 2008) Scan
Giving it your best shot (4 August 2008) Scan
Infinitely and definitely, Terry Tao is prime (28 July 2008) Scan
A point-to-point to prove on speeding (22 July 2008) Scan
Why wind is a blow to record seekers (15 July 2008) Scan
What's that about square pegs and round holes? (23 June 2008) Scan
Mathematical matchmaking (16 June 2008) Scan
Excavating a mathematical museum piece (2 June 2008)Scan
Chasing down infinity (26 May 2008) Scan
Living in the zone (19 May 2008) Scan
Fastest path not always the shortest (12 May 2008) Scan
Up and down like a daisy (28 April 2008) Scan
Gallons of strife in balancing measures safely (14 April 2008) Scan
Simpson's paradox makes a donkey of us (7 April 2008) Scan
How I wish I could calculate pi (17 March 2008) Scan
Leaping to Conclusions (3 March 2008) Scan
The Ups and Downs of a Mirror's Magic Reflection (25 February 2008) Scan
Right on the Money for a Change (18 February 2008) Scan
Solving Puzzles over a Cup of Coffee (11 February 2008) Scan
Winning formula but is it cricket? (4 February 2008) Scan
2007
Christmas comes but once, or does it . . . (15 November 2007) Scan
Scissors cut paper cover rock (5 November 2007) Scan
Tally up the votes that count (29 October 2007) Scan
Ringing the changes (15 October 2007) Scan
Smart money is on the science (8 October 2007) Scan
Getting lost and found in the Murphy zone (27 September 2007) Scan
A fair crack of the whip (3 September 2007) Scan
Sometimes with maths, it is a case of it's all Latin to me (27 August 2007) Scan
Taxing numbers take the law into their own hands (20 August 2007) Scan
Too hot, too cold, just right (6 August 2007) Scan
A square full of triangles (30 July 2007) Scan
Pattern Power (16 July 2007). And here is the answer to the question we asked in this article. Scan
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