Rolling Block Challenges
Rolling blocks can be found as apps (both web and mobile). Here’s a video of a much more sophisticated version of the game called Block Master 2000 that can be found in Apple and Play…
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Make your own 3D Os and Xs board
Here’s a challenge before the challenge. Try your hand at some 3D making. What could you use to make a multilevel Os and Xs board? I’ll bet you’ve got something at home that might work….
Points, Lines, Shapes, Solids
Using playdough and spaghetti sticks is a great way to start getting into the wonderful world of 3D shape and space. That is because you can build up from 2D shapes that are more familiar….
Designing a Soma Cube
This week’s puzzle is a simplification of the problem that Piet Hein devised and solved some 85 or so years ago* The challenge is to see how many different solids we can create by adding…
Creating your own moments
At this week’s Family Maths Moves! event, we had the opportunity to chat with some of the wonderful parents who attended about their approach to maths as well as any resources that they use or…
Weekly Challenge
We’ve started our weekly challenge a little earlier than usual to help get children back into maths with an exploratory frame of mind! Let us know how it goes!
The Max Box Challenge
Folding paper is well known to be a great way to develop ideas in maths. Here’s a classic challenge to help develop ideas to do with volume and surface area as well as nets of…