Mathematician, robot fan, auntie and unstoppable thingdoer from Manchester, she/her. Stop using this awful website.
Manchester, England
Joined January 2009
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If you'd like to keep up with what I'm doing (and see some excellent maths memes), you can follow me on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/steckl.es or on Mastodon mathstodon.xyz/@stecks - but I won't be posting anything on here going forward. Hope to see you elsewhere!
Do you know anyone interested in maths who might like to watch monthly livestreams of people chatting about cool maths? You can buy a gift membership to our Finite Group community to give someone livestream access for a number of months of your choice! patreon.com/FiniteGroup/gift
I've just checked, and we still haven't finished our project to get people to say out loud all 41 million digits of the most recently discovered Mersenne prime. If you want to help us get to the aspirational 0.5% mark, be assigned your chunk of 419 digits: saytheprime.com/
Are you someone who teaches maths, or runs maths activities? We're building up a collection of maths activity resources you can buy and print to use - including sessions on Möbius bands, mathematical mindfulness and now binary numbers. Spread the word! 15minutemaths.com
Want to watch livestreams of interesting people talking about maths? Join the Finite Group, and you can chat and share maths memes with others in our Discord, and (for paid members) watch our monthly streams - live or recorded! Details at finitegroup.co.uk
It's this weekend! Join us for a #SciCommBurrito: picnic edition, from 1pm this Sunday 31st August. More details at scicommburrito.co.uk
If you would like some free maths communication training and are based near/can get to Glasgow, Ben Sparks and I will be delivering part of a two-day training on mathematical writing and speaking/presenting - 2nd-3rd September, funded by INI. Details here: gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/t…
This month's #SciCommBurrito is in the form of a picnic - we'll be in St. John's Gardens from 1pm on Sunday 31st August, enjoying the (hopefully) nice weather, chatting about science communication and eating picnic foods. Details at scicommburrito.co.uk - join us if you can!
If you're coming to @GreenManFest this weekend, you might spot me as part of this BBC #InsideScience recording - chatting about the maths behind games and game theory. And if not, you can listen to the episode when it comes out on @BBCRadio4 in the autumn! greenman.net/line-up/bbc-ins…
Do you like cool maths people and/or hanging out with them? Join the Finite Group for access to our Discord community, & paid members can also watch monthly livestreams (and recordings) where we chat about maths, sometimes with special guests! Details at finitegroup.co.uk
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Just a reminder that if you want to run some fun/mindful maths activities, we've got a little shop on our website at 15minutemaths.com where you can buy PDFs of printable worksheets, slides and session leader notes for just £2.50 a set!
ALT Photo of the Grid Spirals activities worksheets, which are a mathematical mindfulness activity with pens, rulers, and dotted grid paper
Did you know I've got an online shop for fun maths activities? You can pay £2.50 for a pack of PDF printables, slides and activity leader notes. We've got a range of topics on there already, and more are being added regularly! Visit our website here: 15minutemaths.com
Missed this month's Finite Group livestream? We're planning our next one as we speak, and if you sign up as a paid member now you can watch back recordings of the last three streams - details in Discord when you sign up. For more info, visit the website: finitegroup.co.uk
According to mersenne.org, the 49th Mersenne prime (found in 2016) has now had all the numbers between it and the one below checked and confirmed non-prime. Why not visit saytheprime.com to recite some of the 52nd Mersenne prime, before the computers catch up?
In case you missed it: I'm part of the Finite Group, a connected graph of mathematicians with a free Discord community and regular monthly livestreams with great people about cool bits of maths. Our next livestream is tomorrow! Find out more and join at finitegroup.co.uk
I'll be speaking at the Innovation and Creativity in Teaching Mathematics conference this month, organised by the wonderful FMSPW - join us on 11th July at Cardiff University: furthermaths.wales/icmt-2025…
There are still spaces available on this all-day maths comm training course I'm running with @SparksMaths next week in Edinburgh - join us for just £15 to pick up tips on speaking & presenting, hands-on maths activities, storytelling & other useful skills: ticketsource.co.uk/london-ma…
I'm part of the Finite Group, a free Discord community for maths people, with the option of monthly livestreams about maths. Our next livestream is on Weds 25th June, and we'll be joined by special maths pal guest James Grime! Find out more and join at finitegroup.co.uk
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#SciCommBurrito is tonight! Join us from 6.30pm at Barburrito on Piccadilly Gardens to meet other science communicators who also like to eat burritos! Who's coming?
Only a week to go until #SciCommBurrito! Who's joining us for salsa and sci-comm banter? scicommburrito.co.uk