It's Newsletter time again with the latest news, views and resources from the Transum Mathematics world.
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🦀 A Penguin and a Crab
🦀 Speed Skills
🦀 Crossing Bridges
🦀 Murmuration
🦀 Graph Transformations
🦀 Largest Product
There's a podcast too!
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I am not sure why there wasn't a set of exercises on speed till now... That's speed/distance/time just in case you'd taken that the wrong way!
www.transum.org/Maths/Exerci...
Self-marking = more time to address misconceptions.
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The Paradox lesson starter has just been updated with more mind-benders. (Scroll down the page.)
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What is your view on square rectangles? Dou you know anyone who says "I always tell lies"?
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Chinese Lunar New Year is happening right now so I've put some related Maths activity ideas here:
www.transum.org/Maths/Activi...
Investigate 10 Heavenly Stems and 12 Earthly Branches creating a 60-year (LCM) sexagenary cycle.
Maths is not old fashioned, it's important all the time.
It even knows tomorrow is the day of Valentine.
So for a loving puzzle, please do not dismay
Try tomorrow's starter, the Starter of the Day:
www.transum.org/Software/sw/...
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Today's date written as 6-2-26 is palindromic! Don't miss this rare chance to mention this exciting (to a mathematician) fact in your Maths lesson today. There are some related resources here:
www.transum.org/Maths/Palind...
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Here is a 3-level puzzle and some Maths activity ideas to reference the Olympics as the Winter Olympics get underway in Italy.
www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=734
Which country has won the most Winter Olympic medals overall?
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Thanks so much for the screenshot. You’ve probably guessed that the values of a, b and c are generated randomly within a set range. I have reduced that range for levels 4 and 5. Yes the other issue is caused by your browser’s font size overwriting the web page font size. Thanks.
05.02.2026 01:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Good question. I have put my thoughts about this at the bottom of the activity page.
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Here is the online, self-checking version of the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem with solvable puzzles. Click bridges to cross each one exactly once! What generalisations can you make?
www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1157
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I wanted the challenge to be quite different from what can be done with Desmos so the moving provides a different approach.
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I have just put this together for a student to use later today. She was having trouble understanding transformation of trig graphs las time I saw here.
www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1158
Fingers crossed that it will support learning.
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The February Newsletter and Podcast are now live on the Transum Maths website here:
www.transum.org/Newsletter/?...
🟰 Badges for the Cods
🟰 Wrong but Close
🟰 PIN Possibilities
🟰 Decimal Sequences
🟰 Distance-Time Graphs
🟰 Shading Inequalities
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Today, 29th of January, is National Puzzle Day in the US.
I have just counted and there are 428 free puzzles on the Transum puzzle page. The image below shows some examples.
www.transum.org/Software/Puz...
I hope you have a very Merry Puzzle Day and a Happy New Conundrum 🌞
Pythagoras with Surds (online exercise) – quick practice finding exact answers. Easy to forget surds when trig lessons are full of decimals!
www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1117
Horrified to hear what happened to Hippasus!
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Superior is a quick, two-player warm up or an end-of-lesson fun take on probability.
www.transum.org/Maths/Game/S...
Keep Maths as everyone's favourite lesson 😉
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Have you ever seen multiple choice questions where every option is wrong? Well there are some right here:
www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1154
Students have to estimate the answers to the questions and choose the option that is closest to the correct answer.
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Draw a distance-time graph from the animated image of a race:
www.transum.org/Software/SW/...
Or do the complete opposite and describe a race from its graph:
www.transum.org/software/SW/...
Both are resources to project for your Maths class.
Captain Obvious says that this is a wonderful Maths revision activity that highlights misconceptions and rewards creativity.
www.transum.org/Maths/Game/U...
I (Captain Obvious) use it very often!
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A new level 7 has been added to the very popular Ratio exercise. The old levels 7 and 8 have been promoted to 8 and 9.
www.transum.org/software/SW/...
Just an example of the exercises freely available at Transum.org
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PIN Possibilities is a new combinatorics activity in which pupils work out how many different PIN codes are possible under a range of rules and constraints.
www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=546
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New year, new month, new edition of my newsletter and podcast ready for you to enjoy:
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⌛ New Year and Time
⌛ Twelfths Puzzle
⌛ New Resources
⌛ Rotational Symmetry
⌛ Magic Square and Binary
⌛ 20:20 Vision
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Nothing like a unique snowflake that you designed yourself to put the rotational symmetry into Christmas!
www.transum.org/Intro/Xmas.a...
Enjoy the last few days before the holiday.
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Arrange the coloured lights on the tree to create a balanced pattern where the total of each colour matches the target numbers shown.
www.transum.org/Intro/Xmas.a...
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How many minutes would it take each elf to fill the toy sack given the information about their present packing performance?
It's still not too late to unleash this 'Puzzle of the Month' on your students:
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It's Christmas week on Transum, which means ChristMaths time. 🎄
I’ve put all the festive maths activities in one place, with ideas for different ages and confidence levels. If you fancy leaning into the season in your lessons, have a browse:
www.transum.org/ChristMaths/
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A new activity has been added to the festive collection. It is called Jack Frost Fractions and requires you to find fractions of frosty fractions.
All of the ChristMaths collection can be seen here:
www.transum.org/ChristMaths/
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A Christmas song, a tune to hum,
Of gifts delivered, find the sum.
Pentatonix' soundtrack plays,
Sing and tally all Twelve Days.
www.transum.org/Intro/Starte...
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ChristMaths idea:::: Decorate this tree with graphs!
www.transum.org/Maths/Activi...
There are many more interactive activities in the ChristMaths collection: www.transum.org/ChristMaths/
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Do you have a spare screen to display Pascal's Christmas Tree, showing a pattern of coloured light flashes designed by one of your students?
www.transum.org/Intro/Xmas.a...
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More festive mathematical activities at www.transum.org/ChristMaths/
