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Difficulty: Fun Tommy’s part of a group that’s out breaking the rules. They’re going for a ride together instead of social distancing. Each member is on their own vehicle. Some of them are riding bikes and some are riding trikes, with three wheels instead of two. If there are 22 riders and 47 wheels, how […]

What happens when a bubble pops? Does it make a sound? What causes that sound? A team of French scientists have all the answers.

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.