Malcolm is an undergraduate at the University of Malta, currently reading for a degree in Mathematics and Statistics. He has a great passion for communicating the beauty and applicability of Mathematics to the general public as well as to dispel the fear and stigma it brings in the mind of others. He is an avid puzzle solver and enjoys creating strategies to everyday problems.
Discover where the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, important mathematical concepts, are found in nature through this hands-on investigation.
Brown’s Criterion is an application of a result in Mathematics which takes advantage of the fact that numbers can be uniquely written in base 2.
The Monty Hall Problem is a mathematical logical puzzle framed in terms of a game show. You are offered 3 doors, behind one of which lies a car, and behind the remaining doors 2 goats.
Mobius strips are truly fascinating. Created using tape and paper, these objects are a great way of introducing surfaces and edges.
The four colour theorem is a mathematical result from Graph Theory which says that any map can be coloured with four colours or less...
This demonstration gives the illusion of mind reading using properties of odd and even numbers.
All numbers have an even number of factors, with the exception of square numbers. You will be able to show this visually in the following experiment.