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Kim has a big round cheese, and an even bigger knife. With three straight cuts, what’s the largest number of pieces she can cut?

Rosario has a pink square of origami paper. She then folds one corner all the way to the square’s centre to make a new 5-sided shape. She discovers that the missing corner is exactly the same size as a piece of fairy bread! How many pieces of fairy bread would it take to cover the whole 5-sided shape?

This quiz looks at some of the shapes found in maths and science. Give it a go and see how you shape up!

Difficulty: Tricky Jack is making a quilt from only square patches of fabric. For every 4 patches he sews together, 1 patch is blue and 3 patches are red. Once they are added to the quilt, all of the patches are 5 cm in width and length. Jack wants to make a quilt that is […]

Here’s a fun paper toy that can help you pick a future job. Have a go with our STEM career chatterbox! There are no wrong answers, only positive role models.

Difficulty: Fun Triangular numbers are numbers that can be formed into a triangle. For example, 3 is a triangular number with 2 dots on the bottom row and 1 dot on top row forming an equilateral triangle of 3 dots. 6 is the next triangular number with 3 dots on the bottom, 2 dots in […]

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?

Skewers are straight and pretty tough. But put just the right twist on them, and you can make something surprisingly curvy!

This traditional Chinese puzzle, known as a tangram, reveals some surprising properties of squares!

The soma cube is a tricky puzzle! First, you’ll glue some cubes together into strange shapes. Then see if you can get those shapes to come together!