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Lafayette
What mathematical words can be used to describe this floor
covering? How many different shapes can you see inside this
photograph?
Symmetry
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pageWatch Those Wheels
Have you ever noticed the patterns in car wheel trims? These questions will make you look at car wheels in a different way! -
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pageMaking Maths: Snowflakes
It's hard to make a snowflake with six perfect lines of symmetry, but it's fun to try! -
pageMaking Maths: Indian Window Screen
Can you recreate this Indian screen pattern? Can you make up similar patterns of your own?
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pageMaking Maths: Five-Point Snowflake
Follow these instructions to make a five-pointed snowflake from a square of paper. -
pageTopkapi Palace
These images are taken from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. Can you work out the basic unit that makes up each pattern? Can you continue the pattern? Can you see any similarities and differences in the designs? -
articlePattern Power
Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and create.
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articleEmmy Noether
Find out about Emmy Noether, whose ideas linked physics and algebra, and whom Einstein described as a 'creative mathematical genius'.
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articleFrieze Patterns in Cast Iron
A gallery of beautiful photos of cast ironwork friezes in Australia with a mathematical discussion of the classification of frieze patterns.