Explore how the work of real-life technicians has helped design and build some of the amazing objects in the Science Museum’s Medicine, Mathematics and Making the Modern world galleries.
Mathematics: The Winton Gallery
This image bank showcase the influence of maths in the stories of trains and railways.
This image bank showcases the many ways we can find and interpret patterns.
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Image bank: maths and computing
This free downloadable image bank showcases the tools, people and challenges behind the development of computers.
Cut out simple shape templates and look through them to find similar shapes in the real world with this free learning activity.
Work out how shoelaces are connected inside a closed tube.
Make a device called a phenakistoscope, which displays a continuously looping animation.
Use trigonometry to estimate the heights of tall objects.
Make a cipher wheel of your own with this learning activity, which you can use to encrypt and decrypt messages.
Make use of geometry in observing the shapes and angles soap bubbles create when they join together.
Enigma cipher machines were designed to create complex encrypted messages that were almost impossible to break.
A catalytic converter is a large metal box that sits underneath your car. They help reduce the chances of us getting ill by reducing the emission of toxic fumes.