Mathematics – Heritage – Education
“My role was to ensure that while the complex mechanics of binary logic were distilled into clear, engaging concepts, the narrative maintained strict historical accuracy and mathematical integrity.”
Tags: BBC, digital, MathsComm, online, ResourceDevelopment, script, Video, YouTube
“This piece explores how we can bridge the gap between research and the classroom, using history to move past a fixed body of rules and reposition mathematics as a deeply collaborative, creative human endeavor.”
Tags: article, IMA, mathematics, Mathematics Today, MathsInMuseums, museums, writing
“By humanising the discipline and highlighting its global roots, we explore how educators can move past the standard ’17th-century European male’ perspective to show a diverse student body their own cultural heritages reflected in the maths they do every day.”
Tags: mathematics, MathsComm, MathsInMuseums, museums, podcast, TMiP
“Stream Thomas K. Briggs’ interview on the TMiP podcast exploring how authentic mathematical threads are deeply woven into heritage sites and architecture.
Tags: mathematics, MathsComm, museums, podcast, TMiP
I was invited to give a keynote speech at the University of Northampton’s MA Conference, as an alumnus of the their MA Education programme.
Tags: education, keynote, mathematics, talk, university
A paper published by the British Journal for the History of Mathematics detailing a research project in which Jason Yip and I planned and taught a half-term’s worth of maths lessons to two classes at a Secondary School in Milton Keynes. These lessons followed the school’s usual Scheme of Work, but Jason and I included History of Maths content in every lesson.
Tags: BJHM, education, history, mathematics, research, writing
“This article is an open invitation to look at history through a completely different lens, guiding readers to discover how deeply mathematical thinking is woven into historical collections and architecture.”
Tags: article, history, mathematics, Mathematics Today, MathsInMuseums, museums, writing
“… a guest post from museum educator and mathematician Tom Briggs, about his session at last August’s Talking Maths in Public conference.”
Tags: mathematics, MathsComm, museums, writing
I was invited as a guest onto the first episode of Teachwire Talks, hosted by Helen Mulley. The episode, Are You Smarter than a Stoneage Engineer, puts me in conversation with Dr. Jennifer Wexler, Historian at English Heritage, to discuss how the prehistoric Stonehenge site can spark powerful learning in modern STEM classrooms.
Tags: education, mathematics, MathsComm, museums, online, podcast
I am very pleased, not to mention flabbergasted, to announce that The Mathematicians’ Library won both categories: it was picked from the shortlist as the editors’ favourite, and received just shy of 50% of the Readers’ Choice votes with 236 out of 475 choosing it as their prime pick of 2025.