Maths for Kids / Maths is Not Boring: The Kids Maths Podcast
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Permutations for Kids: Why Every Card Shuffle Is Brand New
17 september 2026 · 11 min
The story of permutations for kids: why a well shuffled pack of 52 cards is almost certainly in an order no one has ever held before, and how Dave Bayer and Persi Diaconis studied shuffling in 1992. Lees meer
• Why seven riffle shuffles are enough to mix a pack properly
• How 52 cards can be ordered in about as many ways as there are atoms in the Milky Way
• How Persi Diaconis went from card tricks with a magician to maths at Harvard
• Quiz questions to answer along the wayMaths 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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Infinity for Kids: What Infinity Is and Why Some Are Bigger
17 september 2026 · 14 min
The story of infinity for kids: why there is no biggest number, and how Georg Cantor showed in the 1870s that some infinities are bigger than others. Lees meer
• How the even numbers pair up with all the whole numbers, one to one
• Hilbert's Hotel, where a full hotel always has room for one more guest
• Why other mathematicians mocked Cantor, and why he kept going
• Quiz questions to answer along the wayMaths 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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The Birthday Paradox for Kids: Why 23 People Share a Birthday
17 september 2026 · 13 min
The story of the birthday paradox for kids: why in a room of just 23 people it is more likely than not that two share a birthday, and how Richard von Mises published the idea in 1939. Lees meer
• Why the question is about any two people, not about matching you
• How counting pairs of people makes the chances grow so fast
• What the maths of chance tells us about coincidences
• Quiz questions to answer along the wayMaths 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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Pi for Kids: What Pi Is and Why Every Circle Has It
17 september 2026 · 11 min
The story of pi for kids: why the distance around any circle is always a little more than three times the distance across, and how Archimedes of Syracuse pinned the number down around 250 BCE. Lees meer
• How Archimedes trapped pi between shapes with up to 96 straight sides
• Why the digits of pi go on forever without repeating
• Where pi turns up, from bike wheels and coins to ripples on a pond and the orbits of planets
• Quiz questions to answer along the wayMaths 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.