Puzzling dates

6th October 1995, 1:00am
The FunMath ‘96 calendar for children at key stage 2-4 is now available. It features ingenious mathematical topics or a puzzle or mathematical anniversary for each day of the year, and a centrefold poster which makes a colourful 12-sided fractal calendar-dice.

Themes this year include: Florence Nightingale the statistician, Islamic tilings and multicultural number systems.

Price Pounds 5.90 + Pounds 1 postage (with up to 50 per cent discount on bulk orders), available from QED Books, 1 Straylands Grove, York YO3 OEB. Telfax: 01904 424381.