6th December 2025

A quick poll of Adam's tutor group revealed that half had alrady put their tree up and the other half were doing so this weekend. We're packing a lot in, but will definitely try to sort out all the decorations before the last 2 weeks of term.

Here's a round-up of other great Advent Calendars we have seen online - hope some of them are of interest:

Transum - a maths calendar with a game each day, and maybe some hidden Maths behind it

Sketchpad Advent - our friend John (who has written great books) uses his encyclopaedic knowledge of town planning to share a different sketch of our glorious urban future each day

Helen Day, who loves the illustrations in Ladybird Books, is doing an Advent Calendar of their great artists and wintry pictures.

More Advent Calendars next Saturday. Send us your suggestions!

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Advent Calendar 2025

1st December 2025

Hello! We've sort of lost count, but think the first Advent Calendar was back in 2003, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine says it looked like this: Of course all the links are dead, but the thing it has in common with this year's is that it is still coded in HTML, probably the last thing I will ever rely on coding for. Now it looks like this: Happy Advent! We have gone for the Bonne Maman JAM Calendar again this year, after leaving it too late last year and it selling out at both Fenwick and Selfridges! We get a fresh pot of jam every day to enjoy with our tartines and Ovomaltines. We also have the Domino's "Merry Crustmas" leaflet, and a MUJI calendar we'll show you later in the month. Do let us know what you are opening every day! You can leave a message below, or email us your ideas and suggestions for future days at robotmaths@outlook.com Have a great day!

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