Mathematical Mysteries on Hungarian TV

Educational show series created by our students in 2022 premiers this week on Hungarian television.

Director: Ilmari Nera (Film2019-23), screenplay: Matilda Jaakkonen (Film2019-23) and Roope Sorvo (Animation2019-23).

Mathematics is interesting, and it’s exciting to unravel the mysteries that can be found in this science. So let’s get started! What are binary numbers? If you didn’t know or didn’t understand it before, now is your chance to make that clear. Aksu and Pyttis, two friends, investigate inside the school and discover that binary numbers will help them.

Two children around the age of ten, Aksu and Pyttis, are spending their holidays with their aunt. Hento, the aunt, takes the children to the university where she works as a researcher. During their pranks, the children discover a mystery. There is always some exciting mathematical clue that leads them closer to solving the mystery. The adventures of Aksu and Pyttis are followed on a television screen by a little girl and her mother. The curious little girl wants to know everything about the mathematical problems that come up in the story. The mother answers all of her questions. She also uses computer games to make the problems understandable.