When most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier-sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...

A pair of mathematicians has built on an obscure, 30-year-old mathematical theory to show that soap-filmlike minimal surfaces appear abundantly in a wide range of shapes. The dissertation, by Jon ...

Complete this interactive activity to find out more about 3D shapes and then put your knowledge to the test. Cubes have 6 flat faces which are all the same size. Everyday things that have the shape of ...

A trippy maths program that visualises the inside of strange 3D spaces could help us figure out the shape of the universe. Henry Segerman at Oklahoma State University and his colleagues have been ...

KAYLA: Come on Zach, I can’t wait to start building our virtual city. ZACH: Same here Kayla.Let’s begin with a city plan to see if there’s room for everything. ADA: To work out how much space ...

Hunt for shapes and make familiar objects by putting together several different shapes. Warm up with a Mystery Math Mistake to tell whether Dotson's 10-frames represent a number more than his focus ...