Podcast Episodes

125 = Toots from Bums and Attitude Sums

Season 1 Episode 125

💨 How many people are needed to guarantee that there is always someone farting somewhere?

🔠 If you match each letter with the corresponding number in the alphabet and add them together, which words ad…

Published on 1 day, 23 hours ago

124 = Dangerous Angling and Harmonious Wrangling

Season 1 Episode 124

👼 What is the Angle of Death?

🎼 What is the best filing system for sheet music?

🎄And there’ll be some A-ho-ho-ho-B

If you have any maths-studio-based-names for the Newdio, go to the Problem Posing Page …

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

123 = The Science of Fries and Mounting Sea Level Rise

Season 1 Episode 123

🍟 Why does the nutritional value of frozen chips change depending on whether they are cooked in an air fryer or in an oven?

⛰️ How large a mountain could we make from 2.2 meters of dredged sea bed (co…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

122 = Shocking Theories with Quickfire Queries

Season 1 Episode 122

🔥 How many quickfire problems is it possible to solve in a single episode of A Problem Squared? 

🧑‍💼 Why is Matt dressed like a maths teacher?

🃏And we will deal out some Any Other Business

If you’d like…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

121 = Bi-annuals and Diagonals

Season 1 Episode 121

🗓️ Does bi-weekly mean every two weeks or twice a week?

🧊 What is the name of the line between two opposing corners of a cube?

🕑 And daylight will be saved with some Any Other Brightness.

For more on Ru…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

120 = Dealing Probability and Healing Gullibility

Season 1 Episode 120

🃏 What are the odds of actually winning Morgan’s very specific, very fun card game?

🤯 Are people more gullible now? And what are the best ways to persuade someone they are wrong?

👻 And, appropriate to …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

119 = Proportions by Bananas and Polygons from Lava

Season 1 Episode 119

🍌 Is there a more consistent system of measuring things (and is it ‘Banana For Scale’)?

🌋 Why and how do hexagons occur in nature?

🔔 And there will be a whole Bec of Any Other Becness

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Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

118 = Rolling Eyes and Juggling Highs

Season 1 Episode 118

🎲 What are the odds of rolling snake eyes? (And does it make for good TV?)

🤹How long does it take to learn to juggle with seven balls?

🛌 And there’s some Any Other Bed’n’Boardness

Head to our socials to…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

A Problem Squared - Emergency Episode!

Season 1 Episode 117

Unfortunately, Matt has been ill and lost his voice so we were unable to record the episode that should be coming out this week.

To make up for it, we are releasing an episode of the usually-Patreon-o…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

117 = Visualising Hacks and Unusual Icy Snacks

Season 1 Episode 117

👁️ How do you remember things if you can’t visualisethem in your mind’s eye?

🍭 What’s the best shape for a freeze pop?

🪣 And there’s some Any Other Beachness

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Published on 4 months ago