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Big fingerprints Activity

by David Shaw, 9 June 2022 | 0 comments

Image of a fingerprint on the side of a balloon.

Have you ever wanted to know how experts identify fingerprints? This quick activity will make your fingerprints giant, to make clues easy to spot!

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Bubble pop Nim Activity

by David Shaw, 10 February 2022 | 0 comments

Coloured plastic toy with 3 rows of 3 circles

Here’s an old game with a modern twist! Compete with your friends to pop the last bubble.

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Newspaper numbers Activity

by David Shaw, 11 October 2017 | 0 comments

Soemoen has circled $122 milion in a newspaper

Mathematicians can find patterns wherever there are numbers. In this activity, see if there’s a pattern in the numbers inside a newspaper!

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Solve the L-puzzle Activity

by David Shaw, 31 January 2017 | 0 comments

Here are two tricky puzzles, which look strangely similar. Did we somehow get a puzzle inside your puzzle? You will need Scissors Copy of the printouts, which you can download here (two pages) What to do

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Draw a flower Activity

by David Shaw, 25 November 2016 | 0 comments

A drawing of a flower

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

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Play Achi Game

by David Shaw, 18 November 2016 | 0 comments

A three by three grid of dots, connected by lines. Someoen is putting a counter on a dot.

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

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Spirolaterals! Activity

by Jasmine Fellows, 4 November 2014 | 0 comments

Completed spirolateral

Written by Dennis Price In this activity, you’ll draw one long line that spirals and snakes around the page, known as a spirolateral. Start with a simple one, and then go on to invent your own spirolaterals!

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