A zippy drive through the world of geometry and parallel-parking

We need maths to do a whole lot of things. Like calculating breaking distances, so car drivers don’t bump into each other on the road. Or parking quickly and efficiently. In fact, the next time you are late for a movie at the multiplex, you can ask your dad (or mum) to use a bit of maths to park faster and better.

Maths has many uses apart from scaring the heebie-jeebies out of you. Like making noodles!

Maths makes the world go round. It is a universal language that is shared by the billions of people on the planet, regardless of country, culture or age. ‘Pi’ is always 3.14 and ‘e’ is 2.71! We cannot all speak Swahili or Spanish or Bengali, but we can communicate in the shared language of mathematics.