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...
The June Transum Newsletter and Podcast are ready for you at:
www.transum.org/Newsletter/?...
🧩 Solvitude Festival
🧩 Mrs Perkins' Quilt
🧩 Pandigital Puzzles
🧩 Frustums
🧩 Unit Circle
🧩 Hard Tables Fact
Plus an amazing American answer to last month's puzzle.
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I can’t remember the last time the intersecting chords theorem appeared in a syllabus I was teaching, but it is still very much around. So, of course, it deserves its own Transum exercise.
www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1178
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GCSE Maths questions on comparing data often ask pupils to write comparisons in sentences. That’s tricky for self-marking, so I thought to do it differently: decide whether each statement is True, False or Cannot be determined.
www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1179
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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
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Well every day is a school day! It was while preparing this online exercise on frustums that I learned that there is more than one formula or method that can be used to find the volume. I live and learn.
www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1172
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There are now 22 Pandigital (using the digits to 9) Puzzles on Transum for you to have a go at solving. Drag the numbers into place and earn a trophy!
www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1173
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🛡️ 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/?...
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A new set of self-marking exercises called Similar Triangles has been created. It builds on the practice already offered by the Similar Shapes exercise, exploring triangle similarity in more detail.
www.transum.org/Intro/?ID=1175
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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
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