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Around 1,200 children and members of the public participated in the maths events we organised as part of the Cambridge Science Festival in March 2014. The annual Cambridge Science Festival takes place over two weeks in March each year, and is one of the largest public understanding of science festivals in the UK. In 2014 the Festival included more than 250 events in total, attended by an estimated 35,000 people.

Don't miss our free events for the Cambridge Science Festival on Saturday 22 March 2014! Join MMP staff and volunteer Cambridge student helpers at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences for a Hands-On Maths Fair between 11.30am and 4pm. Famously, G.H. Hardy described mathematicians, like poets and painters, as makers of patterns, and mathematics as a creative art.

The 20th annual University of Cambridge Science Festival takes place from 10-21 March 2014, with more than 250 events for all ages. You can browse the full programme on the Cambridge Science Festival web pages, but we've also picked out some of the Festival's mathematical highlights for you below. From animal patterns to string theory, prime numbers to the Simpsons, the free public talks on offer cover a huge range of mathematical topics.

The next Cambridge Maths Circle event takes place on Saturday 15 February 2014, 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.

206 University of Cambridge students have volunteered for the STIMULUS programme this term - a new termly record! 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 - in total the programme results in over 4,000 hours of student time being donated to local schools each year. STIMULUS benefits everyone involved.

Applications are now open for the University of Cambridge's 2014 Maths STEP Prep Summer School.

The Maths STEP Prep Summer School is a new initiative to help Year 12 (or equivalent) students from non-selective UK state-maintained schools and colleges who intend to apply to the University of Cambridge to study Maths. Run by the University of Cambridge Admissions Office in collaboration with NRICH, the Summer School will provide early preparation for and familiarisation with the Sixth Term Exam Paper in Mathematics (STEP).

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.

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!

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.

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.