By David Shaw, 12 August 2014
You’ve seen mazes on paper, you may even have explored big mazes on foot. But this maze has a geometric twist – it’s on the surface of a donut. This is a torus maze!
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By David Shaw, 1 July 2014
Cones are kinda round, but put them together right and you can make a cubic decoration. Sound confusing? Don’t worry, it’s really simple and really fun!
By David Shaw, 10 June 2014
Would you like to make your own repeating patterns, a la Escher? Grab some scissors and make some tessellating tiles!
By David Shaw, 3 June 2014
For over a thousand years, people have been drawing intricate woven patterns known as Celtic knots. As we’re about to find out, there’s a lot of maths involved!
By David Shaw, 6 May 2014
We’re going to see how many pencils we can put together so that each pencil touches all the others. Try coming up with your own solutions, and then follow these instructions to create some famous patterns.
By David Shaw, 22 April 2014
It takes years of practice to get really good at pool or snooker. But with a bit of practice and a bit of maths, you should be able to pull off these pool trick shots no problem! Note: If you don’t know how to use a pool cue to hit balls, ask someone to teach […]
By David Shaw, 20 April 2014
Happy Easter everyone! Here’s a handy way to draw an egg shape using maths.
By David Shaw, 12 March 2014
How many coloured pencils or textas do you really need to own? Can you get away with using just two? Time to get colouring with this maths activity.
By David Shaw, 25 February 2014
There are five regular solids – we call these the Platonic solids. The faces of a platonic solid are all the same, regular shape, and the same number of faces meet at each vertex (corner). In this activity you can make all five of them!
By David Shaw, 5 November 2013
Impress your friends by turning your bagel into a delicious, one-sided, strip of bread: a kind of Möbius strip! That means there’s more space for delicious spreads.
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