By David Shaw, 27 March 2020
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!
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By David Shaw, 18 March 2020
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.
By David Shaw, 4 March 2020
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.
By David Shaw, 19 February 2020
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.
By David Shaw, 6 February 2020
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.
By David Shaw, 5 February 2020
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.
By David Shaw, 24 December 2019
Merry Christmas! Here’s our maths gift to you – a puzzle.
By David Shaw, 12 December 2019
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!
By David Shaw, 11 December 2019
Difficulty: Taxing I have a collection of strange dice.
By David Shaw, 27 November 2019
Difficulty: Tricky Janet is afraid of the dark, especially dark caves and tunnels. Today Janet must catch the train into town. But there’s a problem. As soon as the train leaves the station, it goes into a tunnel.
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