How to Teach Maths

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Sara Pascoe and the very numerate Prof Hannah Fry, maths comedian Matt Parker and statistician Prof David Spiegelhalter for a unique maths class. Are some of us just innately bad at maths or can everyone get to grips with algebra and calculus? What do our panel wish they'd been taught at school, and what is the key to a life-long love of numbers? Get your calculators ready!

Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.1	I'm Robin Hins. And I'm Brian Cox.
0:06.8	And this is the Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:08.6	Today we'll be exploring mathematics.
0:10.7	If mathematics really is the language of the universe,
0:13.5	then why do so few of us speak it fluently?
0:15.9	In fact, that may well be why so few people in England
0:18.6	speak it fluently, because if it is a language,
0:20.5	people can't be bothered to learn languages, you know that.
0:22.5	When they say it's the language of the universe,
0:24.8	then I would imagine if aliens ever arrived on Earth,
0:28.0	it would just be someone in Wendova talking very loudly.
0:31.9	I don't understand what you're saying,
0:34.5	but I do not want the anal probe. Thank you.
0:37.8	LAUGHTER
0:38.9	Would you like us to take you to our leader,
0:42.2	or would you like to go to a harvester?
0:44.3	Are you allowed to say anal probe on Radio 4?
0:46.9	I'd be more worried about harvester.
0:48.8	Harvester?
0:50.2	Harvester on Radio 4, that's very much a radio to a restaurant.
0:53.6	For dickless.
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