Magic Mathematics

Today Primary 5-7 joined an online session with Zoe, a mathematician, who wanted to talk to us about her favourite thing - SHAPES!

The first problem Zoe set us was to find a way to turn our hands from facing upward  to downward without turning our wrists.  This involved a lot of right angled moves ....

Zoe introduced us to a new shape - a mobius loop, and some of its interesting properties.  She also asked us to cut out a rectangle we'd drawn on paper, using the least number of straight paper cuts.  Some clever boys and girls managed to do it using symmetry, with 2 cuts - Zoe showed us how she could do it with one cut!

Who knew shapes could be so amazing!!