Explore maths-related exhibits in our galleries with fun activities and challenges.
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.
This image bank showcases ways of using maths to understand bodies and diseases.
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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.