Calling all pi fans!

Hello everybody. Pi Day is nearly here, and I know that a lot of you are interested in this amazing number. We celebrate Pi Day on 14th March, because the date is 03/14 if you use the date American notation. The UK Mathematics Trust will be celebrating pi for a whole week, with events, problems

Weekly Puzzle: Solids

Hi everyone. To understand this puzzle, you need to know what the faces, edges and vertices of a shape are. If you’re not sure, take a look back at last week’s puzzle first. If you’ve solved last week’s puzzle, you should now be able to calculate F + V – E for the icosahedron. What

Weekly Puzzle: My Icosahedron

Hello everyone. I’d like you to meet my pet icosahedron. His name is Tony. All of the faces of the icosahedron are equilateral triangles. Five triangles meet at every vertex. The line where two triangles meet is called an edge. Tony is slightly transparent, so some of the lines you can see are at the

Weekly Puzzle: 19th November

Welcome to this week’s puzzle: Emma’s Dilemma. As usual, no calculators! Question 1 Emma writes the letters of her name in as many different orders as possible. How many ways can she do it? A 4      B 8      C 12      D 16      E 24 Question 2 Thomas also writes the letters

Weekly Puzzle: 12th November

Welcome to this week’s puzzle. We like getting comments on this blog, so if you enjoy a problem or want to share any thoughts then please do add a message. No calculators! Question 1 Isabella was born this morning. When should she celebrate being 100000 seconds old? A This evening     B Tomorrow     C Next week

Weekly Puzzle: 3rd November

Welcome back to the weekly puzzle. The maths club will be online again for a while, so check back here for new problems to solve every week. As usual, there are two problems to solve, with five choices of answer. The first one is easier than the second. Question 1 She sells seashells on the

Our tiles

I’ve received some fabulous work on tiling. These are some of the best ones. Lakmé’s one looks to me like sharks swimming. Eva made a great tessellation of octagons. And Christian’s sophisticated chickens are amazing! There are too many to mention, but I love them all. Thanks to everybody who has worked hard to make

Tiling

This week, the British mathematician Sir Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize for Physics. He won the prize for his work on black holes, but he has studied many other things in his life, and he is also famous for the work he has done on tiling. This is Roger Penrose. The floor he is

Summer Puzzles – Énigmes d’Été

Here’s a spicy set of puzzles for you to dip into over the summer. We hope you enjoy them! Voici quelques énigmes pimentées pour l’été. On espère que vous en profiterez !

Weekly Puzzle: 21st June

Hello, and welcome to the last weekly puzzle of the academic year. But don’t worry, puzzle fans, I’m going to provide you with a whole pack of summer problems next week to keep you going over the holiday! The islands question is an example of what we call graph theory. There are some interesting graph