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Count down to Christmas with our mathematical Advent calendars!

Share in the festive spirit with our annual NRICH and Plus mathematical Advent calendars!

NRICH has published two online Advent calendars, one for primary students (ages 5 to 11) and one for secondary. This year the activities featured in the NRICH Primary Advent calendar are based on the theme Planet Earth, while the NRICH Secondary Advent Calendar presents a favourite video resource behind each door.

Dr Who 50th anniversary: The Doctor, the Plus posters, and the plot to control space and time...

As intelligent life forms in many universes join together to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr Who, we thought we'd add our own little anniversary acknowledgement by revisiting the Plus posters' moment of fame!

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Saturday 16 November: Cambridge Maths Circle

The next Cambridge Maths Circle event takes place on Saturday 16 November, 10am - 12.30, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, CB3 0WA.

The Cambridge Maths Circle runs free events providing enjoyable and stimulating hands-on mathematical activities for children and young people of all ages from 5 to 18. Cambridge Maths Circle events are led by volunteer staff and students from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics.

STIMULUS - Cambridge student volunteers helping in local schools

More than 80 Cambridge students are volunteering as classroom assistants in 26 local schools this term through the long-running STIMULUS programme. STIMULUS is a community service programme which gives Cambridge University students the opportunity to work with pupils in local primary and secondary schools and sixth form colleges, helping with Maths, Science and Computing lessons. Volunteers sign up for a term at a time, working in their assigned school for one afternoon each week. STIMULUS benefits everyone involved.

NRICH launches free STEP Preparation resources

Our NRICH website has just launched a new collection of free online resources to help potential university applicants prepare for sitting STEP Mathematics examinations.

STEP Mathematics is an additional examination, taken at the end of Y13, which forms part of conditional offers to mathematics applicants by Cambridge and some other universities.

New KS3 and 4 NRICH probability resources

A collection of free online resources taking an exciting new approach to the probability strand of the KS3 and 4 Mathematics curriculum has just been published on our NRICH website. Probability is the mathematical study of events which are subject to chance variation. It is an area which many students find difficult - not least because their intuitive understanding often appears to be contradicted by the maths.

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NRICH supporting Cambridge STEP Easter School

Staff from NRICH worked with the Cambridge Admissions Office, Mathematics Faculty and Cambridge colleges to run the 2013 Cambridge STEP Easter School in April.

Maths events for the Cambridge Science Festival

Come to Cambridge on Saturday 23rd March 2013 to join in the biennial Cambridge Science Festival Maths Open Day! Cambridge mathematicians and theoretical physicists work on everything from the Big Bang to number theory, from modelling the shrinking of Arctic sea ice to geometry, quantum information and understanding how the influenza virus evolves.

Travelling Salesman screening 14 March 2013

As part of the 2013 Cambridge Science Festival, we are screening the award-winning cult indie thriller Travelling Salesman at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences on Thursday 14 March. (Buy tickets online here.)

Are there parallel universes? Investigate with Plus

Are there parallel universes? The idea that there might be many worlds and parallel universes - universes in which, rather than reading this, you are still asleep; in which you are happier, unhappier, richer, poorer, or perhaps even dead - is one which has crossed over from academic physics debate into a staple of science fiction. But what is the basis for the suggestion? Plus, our free online mathematics magazine, investigates the physics behind the controversial concept.