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Picture this: you’ve just bought a nice little cake, just for you. Then your friends show up, wanting a piece. Lucky for you, mathematicians have developed some pretty cool ways of sharing.

Let’s look at a few interesting patterns you can get by dividing. Some of these patterns need a lot of digits, so get the best calculator you can find.

There are plenty of patterns inside a flower. Let’s follow one and see what drawing we get!

Tired of tic-tac-toe? Try Achi, a trickier game from the African country of Ghana.

Australian money is designed to be hard to copy. See if you can find all these features!

How long would it take to count to one million? Well you could just start a stopwatch and get to counting, but here’s how to work out if you’ll be done by dinner time.

For many of us, tying shoelaces is something we learned long ago. And yet, a surprising number of people do their shoelaces incorrectly! So how can you tell, and how do you fix it? Read on to find out!

A few minutes with a ruler, and you can make a smooth curve from a bunch of straight lines!

Thousands of years ago, ancient Chinese people played a game with strange dice – and now you can make your own!

Make some rocky road, and discover that there’s still heaps of space in a ‘full’ dish.