About this season
A new way of showing how maths is used in the real world to help create a sustainable future. Stefan Gates meets people using maths to find innovative solutions to the ecological challenges of our age.
Episodes (9)
1. Local Food
Aired 1 May 2017 • 12 min
Stefan visits an organic farm in Devon to uncover how ordering events, patterns and measuring can help work out what's good for the environment.
2. Recycling
Aired 7 May 2018 • 10 min
Stefan visits a vast recycling plant to explore how 2-D and 3-D shapes are used to sort and reuse rubbish, and visits a school that uses recycled objects in many different ways.
3. Saving Energy
Aired 1 November 2016 • 10 min
Stefan vists a brand new hospital in London where he learns about measuring and controlling temperature and visits a school that uses data collection to run an energy saving campaign.
4. Rainwater Harvesting
Aired 7 November 2016 • 10 min
Stefan visit a huge hi-tech greenhouse in Kent to learn how much rain can be collected from a roof using ideas of conservation of volume and calculating area.
5. Reducing Car Use
Aired 27 November 2017 • 10 min
Stefan explores alternatives to car use by pedaling a rickshaw across Bristol and constructs simple equations to calculate the carbon cost of a new cycle way.
6. Reducing Food Waste
Aired 27 November 2017 • 10 min
In this episode targeted at the Primary maths curriculum Stefan visits a unique grocery in Manchester and learns how to reduce food waste by turning facts and figures into fractions and percentages.
7. Wood Fuel
Aired 4 December 2017 • 10 min
In this episode, Stefan heads into the woods of Sussex to explore sustainable energy and meets a group of students who use algebra to compare different types of energy.
8. Lamb vs Snail
Aired 11 December 2017 • 9 min
9. Biodiversity
Aired 18 September 2017 • 10 min