Tom features on the BBC Breakfast news programme to discuss ‘Multicolour Maths’ – a novel approach to learning arithmetic using colours instead of numbers.

Watch the full segment on BBC iPlayer here (starts at 1:50:34).

Find out more about the project in this article on BBC Points West.

Oxford University mathematician Tom Crawford, also known as online content creator Tom Rocks Maths said: “There will be a very large group of people who through their childhood into adults haven’t got on with maths because numbers don’t make sense to them,” he said.

“The fact you can then present it to them and say, ‘We’re just going to talk about different colours’, is exciting.

“I’d be interested to create a more formal study with adults and children to see how it affects their outcomes with learning maths.”