Resources

Think Maths team members Matt and Katie have created a maths project that will take place from October 2018 - they've made a 2m tall cylinder out of mirror steel, and will be using it to create anamorphic images. Anamorphic images have been distorted, so that they only look correct when viewed from one exact position.

Have you met the Utilities Puzzle? A puzzle that cannot be solved on flat surface but can be solved on the surface of a mug! Introduce your students to this puzzle and other areas of graph theory with this set of resources.

Across the world pets are making predictions about the outcome of World Cup 2018 games with Matt Parker's Psychic Pets project (video below). You can join in and register your pet!

These worksheets help explore the maths behind the Psychic Pets project. Curriculum topics covered include probability and combinations and permutations.

Did you know a circle is not the only shape that maintains the same width as you rotate it? There are other, lesser known, 'shapes of constant width'. In this set of resources students can explore what it means for a shape to have 'constant width', learn how to construct shapes of constant width using a pair of compasses and discover some real life shapes of constant width. 

Puzzles made by the Think Maths team for Maths Fest 2018. Includes a hints sheet and a solutions sheet. We hope they come in handy in the classroom. Enjoy!

Help us estimate the dimensions of a fair cylindrical three-sided coin, by taking part in our experiment!

These resources are centred around students making snowflakes with 6-fold symmetry (real snowflakes always have 6-fold symmetry!) and not 'snow-fakes' - those with 8-fold symmetry, for example.

With these resources students can fold their own Origami Tangram pieces (or cut them out) and then investigate the properties of the shapes of the pieces, before solving some Tangram puzzles with them.

In this set of activities students approximate Pi by rolling dice and spotting factors between pairs of numbers.

Can you fit the tetrahedron in the cube? This nice little puzzle activity challenges 3D spatial awareness and thinking skills, as well as building nets and reinforcing knowledge of some simple polyhedra.