Maths with a Story

Maths with a Story
BBC Schools Radio
Company:	BBC
First run:	25th September 1980 - 3rd July 1984 Repeated until 5th December 1985 (6 school years) [more][less]
Episodes:	18 episodes
Duration:	15 minutes
Subject:	Mathematics: Mathematics
Audience:	Age 7-9
Language:	In English
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• Calculated TalesA later radio series presenting maths problems in short dramatised stories

The madcap, dramatised adventures of the residents of Muddleville-on-the-Mud, a chaotic seaside resort whose residents include the zoo manager Mr Beast, keeper Freddie Fixit, the wiley cook Mrs Witchitt, Tiddles the gorilla and his young friend Melissa, foolish local aristocrat Sir Absolutely Accurate, the long-suffering Lady More-or-Less Accurate and their manservant Fortescue, the entrepreneurial Max the Millionaire, reclusive rogue Count Backwards, and audacious con man Terry Twister.

The residents of Muddleville at the Zoo birthday party

Two episodes each term (four in total) left Muddleville behind in favour of traditional, presenter-led Radiovision programmes in which subjects such as symmetry and tessellation are explained with the aid of images shown on slides in the classroom.

Episodes

#	Title	Topic	Broadcast
1.	Pirate Gold	Co-ordinates	25 Sep 1980
2.	Muddleville Olympics	Estimating and Approximating	9 Oct 1980
3.	Max - the Muddleville Millionaire	Large Numbers	23 Oct 1980
4.	(radiovision)	Symmetry	13 Nov 1980
5.	Mrs Witchitt Works It Out!	Probability	27 Nov 1980
6.	Tiddles and the Time Machine	Growth and Change	22 Jan 1981
7.	(radiovision)	Tessellation and Packing	5 Feb 1981
8.	Muddleville Zoo	Scale and Enlargement	19 Feb 1981
9.	The Fastest Snail in Town	Maxima and Minima	12 Mar 1981
10.	Whodunit?	Intersection of Sets	26 Mar 1981
11.	(radiovision)	Straight-Line Shapes	8 May 1984
12.	(radiovision)	Curved-Line Shapes	15 May 1984
13.	Happy Birthday to Zoo!	Fractions and Remainders	22 May 1984
14.	Radio Muddleville on Air!	Ordering and Logical Thinking	5 Jun 1984
15.	The Muddleville Chess Championship!	Squares and Square Numbers	12 Jun 1984
16.	The Muddleville Campers!	Exploring Area	19 Jun 1984
17.	Don't Think of a Number!	Numbers in Everyday Life	26 Jun 1984
18.	The Crooked Computer!	Solving a Problem	3 Jul 1984

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