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Episode Length 60 min

A new way of showing how maths is used in the real world to help create a sustainable future. Stefan Gates meets people using maths to find innovative solutions to the ecological challenges of our age. This programme is targeted at primary age students, viewers learn about time, distance, number patterns and operations as Stefan visits a farm in Devon that uses maths to calculate the most environmentally friendly way of delivering organic food boxes. He visits a vast recycling plant to explore how 2-D and 3-D shapes are used to sort and reuse rubbish, and visits a school that uses recycled objects in many different ways. At a brand new hospital in London he learns about measuring and controlling temperature and visits a school that uses data collection, tables and charts to run an energy saving campaign.

See also: BD0024 Saving Planet Earth - What Can I Do? 

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