By David Shaw, 14 November 2019
This is a fun design to experiment with! You can give the plane bigger wings to float more, or fold over the front edge to make the nose heavier. Make a few adjustments and see which modifications work the best.
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This paper plane isn’t very fast, but with practice and adjustment, you can make it do loops!
By David Shaw, 13 November 2019
Difficulty: Fun Sienna’s teacher is writing up a wicked problem on the board. First, the teacher writes all the numbers from 1 to 99. Then they erase 10, 20, and all the other numbers that end in 0. “Listen up!” the teacher announces. “I want you to multiply all the numbers on the board.
By David Shaw, 7 November 2019
Imagine you’re at university, doing a maths quiz, with a calculator provided. The problem you’re tasked with reads, “Your grandmother was born in 1942, how old was she in 1994?” You think for a moment and realise it’s a subtraction problem. Into your calculator, you type “1994 – 1942”, and then triumphantly, you record the […]
By David Shaw, 6 November 2019
We’re testing your science knowledge from A to Z! From animals quirks to the age of zircon, see if you can get all five questions right.
By David Shaw, 31 October 2019
Washing your hands is important, but how do you know if it’s working? Make some safe but gross glow germs to find out how well you wash!
By David Shaw, 30 October 2019
Difficulty: Fun Sergio is an electrician repairing a power line. There’s a stretch of eight, evenly spaced power poles he’s working on. The distance from the first to the fourth is 120 metres. What’s the distance from the first to the eighth pole?
By David Shaw, 24 October 2019
If you’re a bit of a germophobe, we have bad news for you. There are a lot of Australians who aren’t washing their hands nearly enough. That’s the conclusion of new research from the Food Safety Information Council.
By David Shaw, 23 October 2019
Are you at the top of your game? We’ll put you to the test looking at extreme heights and depths, plus sizes, shapes and speeds in this week’s quiz.
By David Shaw, 17 October 2019
Drop the ruler, watch for the jump… that’s the point of drop jump! Can you work out which matchbox tray the coin will fall into?
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