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  Binary for Kids: How Computers Count With Only 1s and 0s 05.10.2026 12dk

  The story of binary for kids: how Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz wrote out a way of counting with only 0 and 1 in 1679, long before computers. • How to count one, two, three and four in binary • How Leibniz published his work in Paris in 1703 • Why switches that are only off or on made binary perfect for computers • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to hear the story of a new great idea in maths every day.
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  Triangles for Kids: Why the Strongest Shape Has Three Sides 04.10.2026 12dk

  The story of triangles for kids: why a triangle will not squash flat when a square does, and how Gustave Eiffel built his tower in Paris from triangles in 1889. • What engineers mean by rigidity • How more than 18,000 iron pieces in the Eiffel Tower are laced into triangles • Where triangles hold things firm, from bicycle frames to bridges • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to hear the story of a ne...
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  Googol for Kids: What a Googol Is and Who Named It 03.10.2026 13dk

  The story of the googol for kids: how nine-year-old Milton Sirotta named the number one followed by a hundred zeros for his uncle, mathematician Edward Kasner, around 1920. • Why a googol is bigger than the number of atoms in the known universe • The even bigger googolplex that Milton dreamed up • How the word spread and gave a famous search engine its name • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to hear...
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  Fractions for Kids: How the Ancient Egyptians Shared Bread 02.10.2026 13dk

  The story of fractions for kids: how the Egyptian scribe Ahmes wrote down problems about sharing loaves of bread fairly about 3,500 years ago, in the scroll now called the Rhind papyrus. • How the Egyptians built fractions from pieces with a one on top • Why two thirds got a special sign of its own • Where the Rhind papyrus is kept today • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to hear the story of a new ...
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  Tessellation for Kids: How Tiles Cover a Floor With No Gaps 01.10.2026 12dk

  The story of tessellation for kids: shapes that cover a floor with no gaps, and how David Smith from Bridlington in Yorkshire found a tile in 2022 whose pattern never repeats. • Why squares, triangles and hexagons make repeating patterns • How Roger Penrose found a never-repeating pattern with two shapes in 1974 • How David Smith's 13-sided hat was proved by a team of four in 2023 • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Fol...
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  The Equals Sign for Kids: Who Invented It and What It Means 30.09.2026 10dk

  The story of the equals sign for kids: how Welsh doctor Robert Recorde drew two parallel lines in his 1557 book The Whetstone of Witte. • Why Recorde chose two lines of the same length • How his book was the first in English to use plus and minus signs too • Why equals means both sides balance, not the answer comes next • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to hear the story of a new great idea in math...
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  The Law of Large Numbers for Kids: Why Coin Tosses Even Out 29.09.2026 11dk

  The story of the law of large numbers for kids: how John Kerrich tossed a coin 10,000 times during the Second World War, and how Jacob Bernoulli explained the result in a book published in 1713. • Why Kerrich's 5,067 heads is so close to half • Why a coin has no memory, and the next toss can still be anything • How the same idea lets a survey of many people tell us about a whole crowd • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify....
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  Negative Numbers for Kids: How Numbers Go Below Zero 28.09.2026 10dk

  The story of negative numbers for kids: numbers below zero, from Chinese counting rods about 2,000 years ago to Brahmagupta's rules in India in 628 CE. • How Chinese mathematicians used red and black rods in The Nine Chapters • Why many European mathematicians refused them, and one called them absurd in 1544 • Where negative numbers live today, from thermometers to lift buttons • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow...
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  Fractals for Kids: Why the Coastline of Britain Never Ends 27.09.2026 10dk

  The story of fractals for kids: why the coast of Britain gets longer the shorter your ruler, and how Benoit Mandelbrot asked the coastline question in 1967. • How Lewis Fry Richardson found two different lengths for the Spain and Portugal border • Helge von Koch's 1904 snowflake, with an endless edge inside a circle • Where fractals hide in ferns, broccoli, rivers and lightning • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow...
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  Place Value for Kids: Why We Count in Tens 26.09.2026 12dk

  The story of place value for kids: why ten fingers mean most of the world counts in tens, and how the system we use today grew up in India. • How the Babylonians counted in sixties, which is why an hour has 60 minutes • Why the Maya counted in twenties • How the same digit means one, ten or a hundred depending on where it sits • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to hear the story of a new great idea ...
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  The Fourth Dimension for Kids: How to Picture a 4D Shape 25.09.2026 11dk

  The story of Flatland and the fourth dimension for kids: Edwin Abbott Abbott's 1884 book about a square who lives in a flat world and meets a sphere. • What a sphere looks like when it passes through a flat world • How the sphere lifts the square out of Flatland to show him up • Why the shadow of a four-dimensional cube looks like a cube inside a cube • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to hear the s...
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  The Pigeonhole Principle for Kids: Why Two Pigeons Must Share 24.09.2026 12dk

  The story of the pigeonhole principle for kids: why two people in London must have the same number of hairs on their heads, and how Peter Dirichlet set out the rule in 1834. • Why more pigeons than pigeonholes means two must share • How a French puzzle book used the hairs example back in 1622 • Why any 13 people include two born in the same month • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to hear the story ...
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  The Monty Hall Problem for Kids: Why Switching Doors Wins 23.09.2026 14dk

  The story of the Monty Hall problem for kids: three doors, one car and two goats, and how Marilyn vos Savant explained in 1990 why switching wins twice as often. • Why your first pick has only a one in three chance • How the host's open door is a clue that changes the chances • How even the great mathematician Paul Erdos only believed it after a computer test • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to he...
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  The Four Colour Theorem for Kids: Why Maps Need Four Colours 22.09.2026 13dk

  The story of the Four Colour Theorem for kids: how student Francis Guthrie noticed in 1852 that four colours are enough for any map, and how it took until 1976 to prove it. • How Alfred Kempe's 1879 proof was believed until Percy Heawood found a mistake • How Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer for about 1,200 hours • Why mathematicians argued over whether a computer proof counts • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on ...
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  The Seven Bridges of Königsberg for Kids: How Euler Solved It 21.09.2026 12dk

  The story of the seven bridges of Königsberg for kids: the Sunday walk nobody could finish, and how Leonhard Euler showed why in 1735 by drawing the first network. • How Euler swapped the city for dots and lines • Why every piece of land needs its bridges in pairs for the walk to work • How map apps and the internet use the same idea today • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to hear the story of a ne...
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  Exponential Growth for Kids: How 42 Paper Folds Reach the Moon 20.09.2026 13dk

  The story of exponential growth for kids: why folding a sheet of paper 42 times would reach the Moon, and how Britney Gallivan set the folding record in California in 2002. • How Britney Gallivan folded a single sheet of paper in half twelve times • The old legend of rice doubling on every square of a chessboard • Why a pond half covered in lily pads is full the very next day • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow o...
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  Zero for Kids: How People Invented a Number for Nothing 19.09.2026 13dk

  The story of zero for kids: how Brahmagupta in India wrote down the first rules for zero as a number in 628 CE, and how it travelled to Europe. • How the Babylonians and the Maya used a mark to hold an empty place open • Brahmagupta's rules for adding, taking away and multiplying with zero • How Arabic scholars and Fibonacci's 1202 book brought zero to Europe • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to he...
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  Symmetry for Kids: Why a Snowflake Has Six Matching Arms 18.09.2026 11dk

  The story of symmetry for kids: why a snowflake looks unchanged when you turn it, and how Emmy Noether showed in Germany in 1915 that symmetry hides the laws of physics. • How flips, turns and slides show up in butterflies, starfish and honeycombs • How Noether linked symmetry in time to the rule that energy never disappears • Why water freezing into hexagons gives every snowflake six arms • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spo...
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  The Mobius Strip for Kids: How a Shape Can Have Only One Side 17.09.2026 11dk

  The story of the Mobius strip for kids: how one twist in a loop of paper makes a shape with only one side, and how August Mobius described it in Germany in 1858. • How to make a Mobius strip and trace its one side with a finger • Why Johann Listing found the same shape in the same year • How the strip opened the door to topology and turned up in conveyor belts • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and 4.7★ on Spotify. Follow or subscribe to h...
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  Prime Numbers for Kids: What Primes Are and Why They Never End 17.09.2026 14dk

  The story of prime numbers for kids: numbers like 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11 that only split into ones, and how Euclid of Alexandria proved around 300 BCE that they never run out. • How Euclid's argument shows there can never be a biggest prime • The giant prime found in October 2024 that would fill about 20,000 printed pages • Why prime numbers lock our messages and help cicadas come out every 13 or 17 years • Quiz questions to answer along the way Maths is Not Boring: rated 5★ on Apple Podcasts and ...