Happy New Year 2024! This post was published at 10 am London time, which is the time the new year, 2024, starts in Kiribati (Christmas Island). From Time and Date, we can see when 2024 starts around the world.

From Quanta Magazine, The Year in Math, features of Quanta’s video are described as follows:

Video: In 2023, mathematicians improved bounds on Ramsey numbers, a central measure of order in graphs; found a new aperiodic monotile; and discovered a new upper bound to the size of sets without 3-term arithmetic progressions.

Christopher Webb Young, Kristina Armitage and Merrill Sherman/Quanta Magazine

You can read more about “The math problem that took nearly a century to solve” on Phys.Org.

The Office for National Statistics has published a podcast, this latest episode of Statistically Speaking provides a review of 2023 in which National Statistician, Sir Ian Diamond, joins podcast host Miles Fletcher to look back over the past 12 months. The post, PODCAST: Year in Review 2023 describes the content which includes how thousands of new price points now inform the way we look at the economy.

For 2024, a very happy new year to all; I have created the annual look at number properties for the new year and links to NCTM’s year game to play with your students in January as well as other suggestions and resources to investigate 2024. I will keep this page updated with any new resources.