By Ariel Marcy, 26 March 2024
Bathymetry is the study of the ocean floor. And it creates a lot of maps! These maps record the changing depths of the ocean and are often beautiful to look at. Why not make your own?
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By Ariel Marcy, 25 March 2024
For 120 years, the SS Nemesis lay in an unknown location at the bottom of the ocean. In 1904, the 73-metre steamship disappeared in a storm with the tragic loss of 32 lives onboard. No one knew where SS Nemesis was until modern technology shone light – and sound – on the shipwreck.
By Ariel Marcy, 21 March 2024
Flora likes to run up stairs as fast as she can! Sometimes she lands on every stair and sometimes she skips a stair, taking two in one stride. This gets her thinking: how many different ways can she run up a staircase?
By Ariel Marcy, 20 March 2024
Around and around we go with this interplanetary orbit quiz! Will you run ellipses ‘round these questions or will you find yourself tumbling back to Earth?
By Ariel Marcy, 12 March 2024
Lavonne is testing a secret code with her friend Jack. First, she picks 3 different secret numbers between 1 and 9. Then she finds the sum of each pair of numbers. Lavonne wants to know if Jack can figure out the original secret numbers just from the sums?
By Ariel Marcy, 7 March 2024
Well, well, well, we’re working with water – just in time for World Water Day (22 March 2024)! Dive right in, wade through the questions and go for a splashy 5/5!
By Ariel Marcy, 27 February 2024
Houston, we have lift-off! This fun activity will turn your local stomping-grounds into a rocket launch facility.
By Ariel Marcy, 26 February 2024
Farmer Wallace packages his eggs in cartons that hold a dozen eggs. In March, he sells 5 standard orders of eggs to the local grocery store. Each standard order consists of 4 grosses of eggs. A gross is 144 eggs. How many cartons of eggs did Farmer Wallace sell?
By Ariel Marcy, 21 February 2024
CSIRO is marching in Mardi Gras this weekend (2 March)! To celebrate the kaleidoscope of human diversity, we’re flying this colourful rainbow quiz.
By Ariel Marcy, 20 February 2024
They’re cute, colourful and … clever? Scientists just discovered that common clownfish can count! Or at least, they can recognise the number of stripes on other fish. And it helps them pick their friends from foes.
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