Welcome to the Parallel Maths Project!
Dr Simon Singh, author of the No. 1 bestseller Fermat’s Last Theorem and The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets has created a set of weekly maths challenges – roughly 30 minutes of interesting, fun and challenging material that goes beyond school maths: mystery and history, activities and oddities, puzzles and problems.
- Sign up and each week you will receive a Parallelogram, a weekly set of maths challenges.
- It’s FREE to sign up and all the materials we offer are FREE.
- Even without an account, you can get a taste of what we offer by just clicking on the Parallelograms on the left.
- Teachers can create an account and set Parallelograms for their classes.
- This site is aimed at 11- to 13-year-olds, but everyone is welcome.
- We’ll be adding material for older and younger students soon.
Noun: Parallelogram Pronunciation: /ˌparəˈlɛləɡram/
Origin: late 16th century: from French parallélogramme, via late Latin from Greek parallēlogrammon, from parallēlos ‘alongside another’ + grammē ‘line’.
- a four-sided plane rectilinear figure with opposite sides parallel.
- a portmanteau word combining parallel and telegram. A message containing mischievous maths problems sent each week by the Parallel Project to bright young mathematicians.
The project was devised as an add-on for the Top-Top Set Project and is supported by the Good Thinking Society. All the materials are completely free.