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TEACHER GUIDE

Are you looking for new angles to explain or encourage maths?
You'll find help in:
A Guide to the Maths in the MM books
Book Kjartan Poskitt the MM author for a Murderous Maths Show
Here are some novel teacher resources based on Kjartan's presentations.
The A-Z index to find everything in Murderous Maths       The Complete Book Index

Murderous Maths       More Murderous Maths

The Essential Arithmetricks       The Mean and Vulgar Bits      

Desperate Measures       Do You Feel Lucky?

Vicious Circles and other Savage Shapes       Numbers: the Key to the Universe

The Phantom X (algebra)       The Fiendish Angletron (trigonometry)

The Perfect Sausage (formulas)       CODES: How to make them and break them

Professor Fiendish's DIABOLICAL BRAINBENDERS      

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
Read the Times Educational Supplement
and Primary Times reviews of
"Diabolical Brainbenders"
The Online Bookshop       Who Writes and Draws Murderous Maths?       The MM book quiz!

Meet the MM characters

TRICKS AND GAMES

Professor Fiendish's Tricks and Games

The 7-11-13 trick       The Prime Numbers Trick       The Five Card Trick      

The Calendar Trick       Urgum and Grizelda's Headhunt       The Impossible Guess

Pongo McWhiffy's Pants Race       How to make Flexagons      

The Impossible Drawing Trick       Murderous Brainbending Puzzles

The Modulus 105 Trick       The Mindreader

The Football Team Illusion       The Apple Scoffing Game

Dolly's Rush Hour (a logic problem)      The Missing Digit Trick

Riverboat Lil's Mindreader trick      Lil's Missing Card Illusion

Riverboat Lil's Chase The Kings card game      Luigi's Outside Table     

Akiyoshi Kitaoka's Distorted Squares       3D Noughts and Crosses Game

The Sam Loyd Sliding Block Puzzle       Sam Loyd's Get Off The Earth Puzzle

The Sam Loyd Eight Queens Puzzle      

The Mystery Tour

The Mailroom      

Links to other sites we like      

ACTIVITIES AND PUZZLES

How to make 5x5 and 7x7 Magic Squares       The Magical Self-Assembling Cube!      

Prime Numbers       How to make Flexagons      

The Coin Pyramid (Tower of Hanoi)       Sunny's 4x4 Challenge

The 6 Coin Circle Problem       The Twelve Coin Balance Problem (and solution)

The Dreaded Kjarposkos       Murderous Brainbending Puzzles

The Bear Hunter Puzzle

FEATURES

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THE RESEARCH LAB (With answers to a very wide variety of odd maths questions!)

Finger Times Tables       Some Unusual Units      

The Chances of Card Hands       The National Lottery Odds      

Pascal's Triangle       The Area of an Ellipse and Volume of Ellipsoids      

The Penrose Chickens       Testing if numbers divide by 11, 7 or 13      

Fibonacci and Nature       The Most Pathetic Facts in Maths      

Regular Solids - formulas for volumes!       GCSE Slips and Tips (exam help)      

The Alternate Segment Theorem & Proof       Calculating the Area of a Trapezium without the height!      

Matthew Sheeran's Amazing Stamps Formula!       Solving Quadratics by Completing the Square

The area of an ANULUS (with one measurement!)       The Names of Bits of Circles Quiz

The sounds of SIN and SQUARE waves

Square Triangle and Cube Numbers (with proof)       Diagonals of Polygons (with proof)      

The Unknown (Combinations) Formula       Surprising Regions Formula      

How many different ways can you put a pack of cards in order?

How to find the centre of a circle using a book

The Prime Counter       The 11 Test

How to work out Square Roots without a calculator

ARTICLES

Stories from "The Week" that amused us

The Cicadas 17-year Life Cycle      The Al-Gebra Movement

CALCULATORS

THE AREA CALCULATOR
As well as the obvious squares and circles, you can get the area of ANY triangle from knowing the lengths of the three sides, and you can even get the areas of ellipses and the surface area of spheres!

The LCD and HCF Calculator       The Prime Number calculator

The Age Calculator       The Area Calculator

The Time Calculator       The Quadratic Calculator

The Friday 13th Calculator



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