By David Shaw, 21 January 2021
Difficulty: Fun How well do you know your dice? A standard dice is a cube with six sides. Each side is numbered with a different number from 1–6. Most six-sided dice also have a special trick in the way they are numbered. If you add the number on the top and the number on the […]
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By David Shaw, 18 December 2020
It’s the silly season! Looking for a way to celebrate with science? Try this collection of hands-on activities.
By David Shaw, 7 December 2020
Difficulty: Extreme I’m thinking of a number. When you add one and a half to it, you get the same result as if you multiplied it by one and a half. What’s the number I’m thinking of?
By David Shaw, 26 November 2020
The holidays are coming, and it’s time to start decorating. What better way than a bright, colourful, mathematical star decoration!
By David Shaw, 25 November 2020
By Rok Willesee Difficulty: Fun An engineer has asked you to help him count the number of triangles in this roof truss. He thinks there are five, but his boss thinks there are more. How many triangles can you see?
By Fiona Midson, 11 November 2020
Difficulty: Tricky Abelina and Ben bought a bag of jelly beans, and decided to split it. When they shared the jelly beans out, they split evenly and there wasn’t any remainder.
By David Shaw, 28 October 2020
By Rok Willesee Difficulty: Tricky A scientist was looking back at notes they made about their experiments. Unfortunately, in one experiment the scales didn’t work. Can you help them work out what the weight should be in the final experiment?
By David Shaw, 22 October 2020
Here’s a quick sliding puzzle to get your brain pumping. See if you can separate the light and dark counters in as few moves as possible!
By David Shaw, 14 October 2020
Difficulty: Taxing Jenny found a strange sum written on a piece of paper: EGG + EGG = PAGE Each letter represents a different digit, so P might be 1, for example. Can you work out what the sum really is?
By David Shaw, 1 October 2020
In this sample from More Hands-on Science, we’re looking at infinitely detailed shapes known as fractals. If you do this activity, you can discover a fractal called the dragon curve!
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