I have used many of Tom Bennison’s resources, including his Christmas colouring for A Level students – these make perfect Christmas activities for older students. For more cards have a look at Tom’s Christmas themed resources. Note he has also created Further Maths Calculated Colouring resources. (Look out for his 2023 Further Maths Calculated Colouring)
For the last few years, I have made Christmas Cards for students using Chalkdust resources, Matthew Scroggs has designed the 2023 Chalkdust card. You can use an interactive or pdf version.
See also the cards from 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017.
The GCHQ 2023 Christmas Challenge features seven complex puzzles “designed to test a range of problem-solving skills and encourage the use of teamwork to reveal the final festive message.”
For more puzzles, a search on the GCHQ site returns many puzzles to keep you busy! We can also search on Christmas, this search returns cards and Christmas puzzles from earlier years.
For arts and craft lovers – construct a Christmas card from Clarissa Grandi on Artful Maths. I see for 2017, Clarissa used Spirograph, a great idea for Christmas cards. As a child, my Spirograph was definitely a favourite toy, if you don’t have a Spirograph set you could use this brilliant digital version, Inspirograph by Nathan Friend. Try altering the gears so that the fixed and rotating gear are the same size, or make one size a factor of the other, make the two sizes have a common factor, or not! Investigate. You can change the colours too and create a work of Art! Now there’s an app too – Spirograph on your phone!
Or we could create cards with Desmos designs!
