Description: I Turn 60 Plywood Triangles into a Bowling Ball You can build amazing bowling ball out of plywood! You need 60 triangles (templates are in the video). Glue them together, make all angles ...

Every financial expert has a different opinion on what you need to do to achieve your financial goals. They will shout these ideas into the void, claiming anyone who doesn’t follow their way is doing ...

Digital notebooks is a category that still divides opinion. For those who use them, they couldn't be without them. For those that don't, the idea of using an electronic device to re-create the ...

About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a ...

Mathematicians have proven that Henry Dudeney’s 1907 four-piece dissection of an equilateral triangle into a square is optimal. Using matching diagrams, researchers from JAIST and MIT showed that no ...

Thurston’s paper Shapes of polyhedra and triangulations of the sphere is really remarkable. I’m writing about it in my next column for the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Here’s a draft ...

W. P. Thurston, Shapes of polyhedra and triangulations of the sphere. Let me describe one of the key ideas as simply as I can. If you cut out the yellow shape here, you can fold it up along the red ...

This 2D shapes poster pack is an essential resource for any primary classroom. It’s designed to help your pupils confidently recognise and describe shapes. Tailored to suit the progression of maths ...