First the UK! Next the world!

Our advent calendar is all about our favourite maths from 2012 and our good friend Alison Kiddle has nominated MathsJam as her favourite. Alison told us all about the recent MathsJam conference and the Cambridge pub meets – a winning combination of maths, puzzles, post-it notes, crochet and, of course, beer!

MathsJams have spread across the UK and around the world. You can find your local pubmeet from the MathsJam website and if there's not one near by, why not start one yourself! And in the meantime you can follow MathsJam on Twitter. Now, where's my crochet hook...