Maths of the Unexpected

Links from Zoe’s session

27 card trick: 

Video of Matt (founder of Think Maths) doing the 27card trick, which explains the full solution of how the trick works: https://youtu.be/l7lP9y7Bb5g

The Cheat Sheet for the 27card trick (shows you where to put ‘their pile’ each time in order to move their card to whichever position is required): https://www.dropbox.com/s/744gk02uw4ydts3/topmiddlebottomtm.pdf?dl=0

Grime Dice
Visit our Grime Dice page – this including links to videos and some classroom resources. If you download the resources there is a lot for teachers there, but there will also be the nets of the dice should you wish to re-create your own (or remind yourself of the numbers on each face).

The real Grime Dice are available here from mathsgear.co.uk 

Perfect Number and Mersenne Primes Link

Watch this video on Numberphile where Matt explains the link: https://youtu.be/T0xKHwQH-4I?feature=shared

Watch this video on Numberphile where Matt goes through the proof: https://youtu.be/q8n15q1v4Xo?feature=shared