Alison Kiddle

https://mathstodon.xyz/@alisonkiddle

Maths communicator and educator. I enjoy finding maths in unlikely places. When I'm not doing maths, I'm usually crafting. They/them

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2026-03-27 11:59:20 UTC

Today I'm putting the finishing touches to "The Hidden Maths of Knitting", my talk at Mathsworld in London next Tuesday (https://mathsworld.com/events/Knitting for tickets). I will be demonstrating an actual working knitting machine in my talk, as well as talking about just a few of the ways maths and knitting are intertwined. It would be great to see some Mastodon buddies there, if only so you can nag me and remind me to toot more regularly!
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2025-12-16 21:14:15 UTC

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I also have numbers who feel like old friends. I'm glad I could reacquaint you with one of yours

2025-12-16 17:13:47 UTC

Recently I had occasion to pose a question "which is more likely, flipping 10 heads in a row with a normal coin or getting four sixes in a row with a normal six sided die/dice". I asked a couple of people to work it out in their heads and was interested that there are a few different approaches. How would you decide which is more likely? What calculations would you do? What do you already know without needing to calculate that you can use to help?