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Feeling festive? This cool mathematical bauble is fun to make, and looks great too! You will need Sheets of cardstock Pencil Cup Scissors Ruler Glue What to do

You will need Scissors Sticky tape Lots of heptagons – you can download a sheet to print out in pdf or Word document. What to do Cut out the heptagons. You need eight heptagons to make the first basic shape that you can tape more heptagons onto.

You will need A copy of the printout Scissors Sticky tape Glue stick If you don’t have a printer, you can make your own template. Draw six equal circles, and then measure an angle of 255 degrees at the middle of each, to make a ‘Pac-Man’ shape.

You will need Square of paper, maybe 10 cm across Some more paper Good pair of scissors Sticky tape What to do Use the scissors to cut a shape out of one side of the square. Put the pieces you cut off on the opposite side of the square. Make sure you match the straight…

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

Sometimes getting crafty means getting mathsy! Try some crochet to learn about curved surfaces.

Have you ever wondered how people used to attack castles? Follow these instructions and you can create the greatest castle crusher around – the trebuchet!

Folding origami cranes and paper aeroplanes is fun, but they tend to be made of straight lines. So what happens when you fold in curves?

Get ready to build your own paper model of the International Space Station (ISS).