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Polydron are so happy to announce that 2 of our fantastic products have each won a prestigious Teach Early Years Award in this years competition!

We would like to give you an update about the changes that we at Polydron are making, to play our part in helping to save our planet and how we are constantly striving to be greener.

We are proud of the longevity and credibility of all of our products that have populated the world of education for over 35 years now. We want to focus on just one of them today, and that is Giant Polydron.

Stuart Whitehill is the overseas fair organiser for the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, and, as such, one of his many roles is to help put together the British contingent at the annual Nürnberg Toy Fair in Germany - Spielwarenmesse.

TARKA London was set up around 6 years ago by founder Rufus Gordon Dean due to his love of exercise and the desire to educate children to lead active, healthy and social lifestyles.

As part of my interactive Mathmagics show, I was looking for something new for the younger pupils for whom numeracy tricks and stories would be too advanced and who are often unable to enjoy visits from those working with the older pupils. I wanted to be able to provide sessions for everyone, irrespective of their experience and abilities.

We recently came across an excellent article in 'Mathematics Teaching', written by Tandi Clausen-May, a regular user of Polydron and a long-time member of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM). She is a strong advocate of children learning through touch and exploration, and this article clearly demonstrates the benefits of this approach.

We were incredibly excited at Slindon Church of England Primary School to receive a Polydron Vehicle Construction set for inclusion at our first annual summer festival, Slindfest.

We have just launched a new range called Crystal Polydron. The size of the pieces are the same as our Original Polydron, the shapes are all solid and are totally transparent. They look stunning on light tables and against a light source. The introduction of transparent pieces allows you to see inside the structure.

We use the same language to describe uniform tilings and polyhedra: Platonic if all the regular polygons are the same, Archimedean if there's a mixture, and a tiling - like the kagome pattern, 3.6.3.6 - can be thought of as an infinite polyhedron. What controls the size of the polyhedron is the angular defect, d, the difference from 360°, at each vertex. They total 720°, so, if there are v vertices, vd = 720°.