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River crossings Activity

by David Shaw, 15 April 2014 | 2 comments

a paper model of a boat with a farmer and a bag of seed on board

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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Jumping puzzle Activity

by David Shaw, 8 April 2014 | 0 comments

Six pieces on a board with seven spaces. An arrow shows the ones on the left can move right.

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…

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Lolly-toothpick platonic solids Activity

by David Shaw, 25 February 2014 | 3 comments

an icosahedron.

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!

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A game of Nim Game

by David Shaw, 24 December 2013 | 1 comments

A single token on a table. Someone is reaching for it.

Grab some tokens and let’s go! Here’s a simple game to play with a friend.

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An Advent puzzle ActivityBrainteaser

by David Shaw, 17 December 2013 | 0 comments

Every second door on the calendar is closed.

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!

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Arrow maze Activity

by David Shaw, 21 May 2013 | 0 comments

A grid filled with arrows.

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!

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Pizza brainteaser! Brainteaser

by David Shaw, 1 November 2012 | 3 comments

Pizza delivery man holding a pizza

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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Double helix cover

Double Helix

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