By David Shaw, 15 April 2014
Here’s a hands-on puzzle to get you thinking! It’s a river crossing that will reveal information about how networks operate.
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By David Shaw, 8 April 2014
Time to jump start your brain for the day. Can you solve this jumping puzzle? You will need A print-out of the jumping-puzzle template Scissors Sticky tape Assembling the pieces First make the playing pieces. Cut along the thick black lines to get three boy strips and three girl strips Fold each strip along the […]
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, 24 December 2013
Grab some tokens and let’s go! Here’s a simple game to play with a friend.
By David Shaw, 17 December 2013
See if you can work out this puzzle. You might like to use an advent calendar to solve it, or maybe you could work it out in your head first!
By David Shaw, 21 May 2013
Here’s a fun puzzle! It’s a maze with no walls. So what’s keeping you on track? Well, this maze is made of arrows – it’s an arrow maze!
By David Shaw, 1 November 2012
Mario has a whole pizza that hasn’t been cut. He cuts the pizza in half, and then cuts each of those pieces in half to make four pieces. He then cuts all of those slices in half, and then those in half and so on.
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