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Difficulty: Taxing Gillian is running the lights for a big musical. The spotlight has a rotating circle of six frames that she puts filters (like cellophane) in, allowing her to change the light’s colour.

Across Australia and around the world, lots of kids are staying home to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Here are a whole bunch of fun maths activities to keep you busy!

Moein is messing about with some pieces of graph paper. He’s cut out some rectangles, and he’s ruling a line from the top left corner to the bottom right corner of each piece of paper. Then he plans to count the number of squares that each diagonal goes through.

Difficulty: Tricky Dennis and Richard went on a tour of a chocolate factory. At the end of the tour, they went to the reject room, where the tour guide gave Dennis a strange block of chocolate.

Difficulty: Tricky Chloe is researching kiwifruit. Kiwi plants are unusual compared to many plants, as they’re either male or female. To make a kiwifruit, you need pollen from a male plant to fertilise a flower on a female plant.

People record numbers in lots of different ways. This method was used by the Inca people and many others who lived near the Andes Mountains of South America.

Difficulty: Taxing Darryl wants to ride his donkey from Alphaville to Betatown. The donkey is always hungry and will only walk if Daryl keeps feeding her apples.

Merry Christmas! Here’s our maths gift to you – a puzzle.

Have you ever got halfway through wrapping a present, and then run out of paper? Follow our foolproof method and discover the maths of gift wrapping!

Difficulty: Taxing I have a collection of strange dice.