When maths slips,
reality breaks

and time to understand is running out

Enter the world of Mathatar - When mathematical principles begin disappearing from history, reality starts to fracture. Maya, her loyal friend Fletcher, a girl from ancient Ur, and one very determined Labrador must follow the trail through time before the world forgets how to hold itself together.

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Enter the World of Mathatar

Numbers vanishing.
Patterns breaking.
Reality glitching

Mathatar begins when fourteen-year-old Maya thought it was all just a bad Sunday morning - until she discovers that someone, or something is trying to erase mathematics from history, causing impossible things to happen; clocks losing digits, patterns breaking, receipts changing and reality seems on the edge.

Yet Grandfather knows more than he’s letting on and when his fox-red Labrador, Fella, chases a rabbit through a portal that shouldn’t exist, Maya follows - and finds herself in Ancient Ur, where nothing is as it seems.

To fix reality, Maya and her time-travelling companions need to stop the mysterious Null and save, the world, the universe and history.

Ancient Ur
Ancient Ur

What is a Mathslip?

Mathslips are glitches in the patterns and numbers in the maths that keep our world running smoothly. Small slips. Big consequences.

An antique clock with a deteriorated face showing the time as 1:49, surrounded by a cosmic background with stars and mathematical diagrams.

Clocks lose numbers

Time becomes unreliable. Timetables shift. Computers stop working.

An old, torn map of the Yucatan Peninsula with a crack running through the middle, surrounded by gold coins and a gun, decorated with star-like light effects.

Maps lose coordinates

Scale fails. Distances stretch and contract. Travelling becomes unpredictable and dangerous.

receipts lose decimals

A street scene at dusk with a person standing on the cobblestone road facing away, a large clock on a building, road signs indicating distances to Riverdale, an outdoor staircase, and a shop with a handmade sign reading 'Special Today 2 Apples To 20 Apples'. In the foreground, a person's hand holds a receipt from a market store, with a shopping list, an apple, and glowing effects.

Prices alter. Decimal places move or go missing. Economic chaos follows.

geometry loses shape

Ancient stone staircase leading up to a dimly lit doorway in a dark, weathered stone ruin.

Patterns break. Measures make no sense. Buildings start becoming unstable.

Meet the Characters

  • A young girl with curly red hair stands in front of a cosmic background featuring swirling galaxies and stars, holding a book close to her chest, dressed in a denim jacket and a necklace with a blue pendant.

    Maya

    Bright. Brave. Stubborn. Loves a cup of Earl Grey, black.

  • A close-up of a golden retriever named Fella, wearing a collar with a peace sign tag, in a warm-lit environment with ancient symbols in the background.

    Fella

    Loyal. Sarcastic. Noble. Hungry. Rabbit chaser and Hobnob devourer.

  • Young person with curly blonde hair, wearing a brown plaid jacket and a backpack, standing in front of a glowing portal.

    Fletcher

    Cheeky. Charming. Positive. Planning a future in comedy. Owner of a cochlear. Hobnob provider. Ambivalent about tea.

  • Young woman dressed in ancient attire with jewelry, standing against a backdrop of a cityscape with temples and water during sunset.

    Aya

    Logical. Calm. Honourable. Doesn’t trust lightbulbs. Tea hadn’t been discovered in her timeline.

  • A serious-looking older man with long gray hair and a beard, wearing a dark, textured blazer and light shirt, standing in a dimly lit room with scientific blackboards and diagrams in the background.

    Grandad

    Eccentric. May have discovered inter- dimensional travel. Makes a legendary cup of tea.

  • A dark, hooded, faceless figure in black armor with a background of scattered floating symbols and numbers, with the title "The Null" and a description about faceless units that do not destroy but rewrite and remove meaning from the world.

    The Null

    They came from who knows where and who knows when. They came looking for our maths and they found us… They have no affinity with tea. Suspicious, right?

ancient ur and the world of mathatar

Travel to Ur, a thriving centre of trade. idea and invention in the cradle of civilisation.

Where merchants measure, scribes calculate and builders align the stars - all in base 60.

Beneath the ziggurat’s and canals lies an older truth: the universe is built on number. And someone - or something - is trying to rewrite the rules.

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Be amongst the first to read the adventure, get a free signed first edition (if you provide genuine feedback) and be names in the acknowledgements in the book.

Shape the story and meet Maya, Fella, Aya and Fletcher before everyone else does.

parents & teachers

Mathatar is an adventure first - designed to spark imagination and keep readers turning pages. It’s the first in a multi-book series covering maths and the history of maths.

Along the way, it changes attitudes to the subject, builds maths confidence, logical thinking, historical curiosity and problem-solving skills that last far beyond the story.

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Maths Confidence

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History & Culture

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Logical Thinking

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Problem Solving

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Time Travel