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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 …
5 days, 18 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-na…
2 weeks, 5 days 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 co…
1 month 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 …
1 month, 2 weeks 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 s…
2 months 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 pers…
2 months, 2 weeks 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 …
2 months, 4 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 so…
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…
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 Bea…
4 months, 1 week ago