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Written by Rachael Vorwerk Inside a small sample of powder, there hides a gigantic secret. In just a teaspoon of the stuff you’ll find the entire surface area of a football field. It sounds like something from Back to the Future, but for CSIRO scientists it’s the norm.

Feeling festive? This cool mathematical bauble is fun to make, and looks great too!

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.

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.

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.

People have been playing this boardgame for thousands of years. So come on, have a Go!