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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 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.
Sailors use sextants to work out their ship’s location at sea so they can navigate.
Shizuo Ishiguro, an electrical engineer and mathematician, developed this electronic storm model to simulate the North Sea and increase our ability to predict the impact of storm surges on our coastline.
These statues, made about 300 years ago, are of two Christian martyrs – people tortured and killed for their beliefs.
This plastic mask was worn by a patient having radiotherapy for throat cancer in 2018.