Last night, we also had a birthday to celebrate: Tony informs us he will be 8 on Friday, but we will leave you to ponder on the (simple) mathematics behind his reasoning. A clue can be found in the fact that his son will also be 8 next month...

The Haribo advert shows us how difficult the concept of delayed gratification can be. In the advert, the children are unable to resist the one Haribo sweet in front of them, even though they have been promised more if they can resist! Delayed gratification or deferred...

When I was at school, I learned about two dimensional and three dimensional shapes. I always liked two dimensional shapes (squares, rectangles, circles etc.) more than their three dimensional counterparts (cubes, cuboids and spheres) because they were easier for me to...