If you are having trouble with the May Puzzle of the Month, I have produced this interactive version to help you. There is also an opportunity to extend the puzzle and turn it into an investigation, so pull up a chair at the circular table and have a go. www.transum.org/Maths/Invest...

Hang the treasure sacks on the balance beam. The objective is to get the beam to balance (multiplying weights by distances). Mental Maths and problem solving. Have a look: www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1169 #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

Introducing "Squareas" (square areas) - a new take on Mrs Perkins' Quilt. Have a go, you might enjoy the challenge of working out the marked, unknown areas. www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1168 #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #Puzzle

🛡️ Knights of the Circular Table 🛡️ Hidden Quadratics 🛡️ Snake Sort 🛡️ Transum on Netflix 🛡️ Don's Expressions 🛡️ Pyramidenstumpf The Transum Maths May 2026 Newsletter and Podcast are here: www.transum.org/Newsletter/?... #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #Newsletter #Podcast

A new online, self-marking exercise on algebraic expressions. Based on some papers I found from my time working with the late Don Steward. www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1166 #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #GoneTooSoon

Revising? You can each for exam-style questions in the Transum collection containing a particular word. www.transum.org/Maths/Exam/ I hope your revision is productive - keep up the good work. #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

Another new month, another newsletter and another podcast. Don't be fooled though! www.transum.org/Newsletter/?... ✏️ Quazmere Quadrant puzzle ✏️ Angles in Digits ✏️ Changing Times ✏️ Term-to-Term ✏️ Using AI well ✏️ Clicking Bubbles #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

Planning GCSE Higher Maths revision for the Easter holidays? Transum has free exam-style questions collected into printable practice papers and 20-question collections, perfect for building a steady holiday study plan. www.transum.org/Maths/Exam/p... #GCSEMaths #MathsRevision #EasterHolidays

Some Maths for the Easter holiday anyone? anyone? www.transum.org/Maths/Activi... Some Easter-themed puzzles, challenges and trivia. #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter #nodtoFerrisBueller

Tomorrow is #PiDay, the perfect excuse to celebrate the most famous number in Maths! If you're looking for a quick classroom starter, puzzle or activity for 14 March, take a look at my Pi Day page: www.transum.org/Intro/Starte... #Maths #MathChat #Teachers #PiDay2026

Maths lesson + World Book Day? Sorted. Here are a range of activities that nod to books while keeping the maths learning moving. www.transum.org/Maths/Activi... [Dressing up optional 🙂] #EclecticCollection #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

Changing Times is a new activity on Transum that gives students plenty of practise converting between units of time (100 questions in 8 Levels). It’s self-marking of course, and many of the questions have optional tips on Post-it-style notes. www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1163

It's Newsletter time again with the latest news, views and resources from the Transum Mathematics world. www.transum.org/Newsletter/?... 🦀 A Penguin and a Crab 🦀 Speed Skills 🦀 Crossing Bridges 🦀 Murmuration 🦀 Graph Transformations 🦀 Largest Product There's a podcast too! #mathstoday #mathchat

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. #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

The Paradox lesson starter has just been updated with more mind-benders. (Scroll down the page.) www.transum.org/Intro/Starte... What is your view on square rectangles? Dou you know anyone who says "I always tell lies"? #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

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/... #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

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... #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

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? #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

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 #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

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. #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

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 #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

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! #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

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 😉 #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

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. #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday

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! #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

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 #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

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 #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

New year, new month, new edition of my newsletter and podcast ready for you to enjoy: www.transum.org/Newsletter/?... ⌛ New Year and Time ⌛ Twelfths Puzzle ⌛ New Resources ⌛ Rotational Symmetry ⌛ Magic Square and Binary ⌛ 20:20 Vision #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

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. #Christmaths #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

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... #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat

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: www.transum.org/Newsletter/?... #Christmaths #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday

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/ #MathsToday

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/ #mathsresources #Xmas

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... #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

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/ #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

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... #Mathschat #Mathchat #Christmaths #Chrismaths More festive mathematical activities at www.transum.org/ChristMaths/

From tomorrow (8 Dec) until Boxing Day the Maths Starters of the Day will all have a Christmas theme. Ho ho ho. www.transum.org/Software/SW/... Make the most of the positivity. Channel the enthusiasm! #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

The first five doors (windows) of the Maths Advent Calendar are now unlocked - take a peek! www.transum.org/Intro/Xmas.a... I hope you enjoy the activities and jokes!!! #Christmaths #Chrismaths#Christmas #Xmas #Xmaths

Another ChristMaths idea - Snow Angles (not Angels)! www.transum.org/Software/SW/... Suitable for a wide range of abilities and self-marking. Generous tolerance levels 😉

ChristMaths idea: "Systematic Snowflakes", Drag the flakes into the cells. There should be no more than one copy of each flake in a line. www.transum.org/Intro/Xmas.a... There are plenty more free festive mathematical activities (plus Advent Calendar) at www.transum.org/ChristMaths/

The first door of the 2025 Maths Advent Calendar has been unlocked ready for you to open. Behind each door lies a festive maths challenge. www.transum.org/Intro/Xmas.a... Start your countdown to Christmas mathematically!

The ChristMaths edition of the Transum Newsletter and Podcast can be found here: www.transum.org/Newsletter/?... 🎄 ChristMaths Resources 🎄 Elf Packing Puzzle 🎄 Modulo Maths 🎄 Treasure Hunt 🎄 Snow Angles 🎄 Festive Joke Let me know if you can solve the puzzle. #Xmaths #mathschat #mathstoday

Today's Maths lesson Starter of the Day is quite an easy question about the game of noughts and crosses. However I hope you don't stop there; please scroll down the page for the link to Ultimate Noughts and Crosses. it's wonderful. www.transum.org/Intro/Starte... #mathstoday #lessonstarter

Who came second in the rock, paper, scissors competition? Clues are in the Nov '25 Transum Mathematics Newsletter and Podcast: 💥 Puzzle of the Month 💥 Digimoji 💥 Flash Cards 💥 Satisfaction 💥 Metric/Imperial 💥 Domain and Range www.transum.org/Newsletter/?... #mathsresources #mathstoday

Not only is it Halloween but it is also World Magic Day. The day has a connection to the most famous magician, Harry Houdini, who died on October 31st, 1926. So do you have a good repertoire of Maths teacher tricks? Here are some: www.transum.org/Software/Fun... #mathsresources #mathstoday

Double Double quiz and puzzle; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Spooky sums that have no fear; Halloween Maths is waiting here: www.transum.org/Software/SW/... #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat #lessonstarter

There are a number of ways of expressing the domain of a function and hopefully they're all covered here in this new multiple-choice exercise. Choose the level consistent with your syllabus. buff.ly/DYOELZU #mathsresources #mathschat #mathstoday #mathchat