What happens when you give an interesting Secret Santa maths problem to a group of mathematicians? Here's how it played out at a recent ACEMS Mathscraft workshop - thanks Dr Rheanna Mainzer, from The University of Melbourne, for writing this wonderful story in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/merry-christmaths-the-statistics-of-secret-santa-127730
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Courtesy: Rheanna Mainzer
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Courtesy: Rheanna Mainzer