This time last year I spoke to John Bibby who said he might be able to arrange funding for it. So here it is. It is very easy to make counting questions for the youngest children, but to vary other questions and bring in as many different aspects as possible, is quite hard. The 2nd thing I want to talk about is very different and more original. Every August in our small town there is a Carnival.
Shops can decorate their windows for a very small prize and much local honour.
4 years ago I persuaded a friend to let me do his antique shop window, and we won first prize. There were lots to see and read in the display, puns and jokes, and the next year people were eagerly asking us what we were going to do. I realised that people were willing to read and think and spend time at the window. We won the first prize again. That autumn I heard that 2000 was to be the International Year of Maths, so I decided that in 2000 we would have a mathematical window.