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• How counting, addition and multiplication work
• Everything you ever wanted to know about pi
• Fibonacci numbers in nature, with activities
• About operations research (the branch of applied maths that looks at train timetables and similar problems)
• Exponential growth described, explained and illustrated
• AFL statistics
• How many photos do you need to take before you get one where nobody's blinking?

• Paper folding

• Interesting numbers
• An interesting number for each day of the month
• Special things about nearly 10 000 numbers
• How do you name really big numbers?
• Interesting statistics about Australia
• Fascinating number puzzles and other information
• Some number problems from pi day
• The first 10 000 digits of pi
• A good introduction to pi
• The names of big numbers
• Train timetables in Melbourne
• Practical and fun uses for numbers

• Explore binary numbers
• Play with the roll of a dice
• Make a moebius strip
• Weave a tangled web

• Dr Rob
• Jamos McAlester - Maths Squad, Questacon
• Marty Ross - Mathematician, University of Melbourne
• Greg Planner - Operations Manager, Champion Data
• Dr Piers Barnes - Physicist, CSIRO Industrial Physics
• Nic Svenson - CSIRO Industrial Physics