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Suppliers Addresses

• 4mation, 14 Castle Park Road, BARNSTAPLE, Devon EX32 8PA tel: (01271) 253253 fax: (01271) 22974
  
  
• Astro-logix Design, 23 Elmore Road, Horfield, Bristol, BS7 9SD
  tel: 0117 9046768 website: http://www.astro-logix.com/
  
  
• Beevers Miniature Models Unit, Department of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, EDINBURGH, EH9 3JJ , UK
  tel/fax: +44 (0)131 650 4824 email: [email protected] web page http://www.bmmu.demon.co.uk/
  
  
• Cochranes of Oxford Ltd, Leafield, Witney, Oxon OX8 5NY, UK tel: (01993) 878641 fax: (01993) 878416
  web page http://www.cochranes.co.uk
  
  
• Hazel Mill Toys Ltd, Dunkeld Road, BLAIGOWRIE, Perthshire, PH10 6RT tel: (01250) 876000 fax: (01250) 875302
  
  
• Galt Toys, James Galt and Company Ltd, Brookfield Road, CHEADLE, Cheshire SK8 2PN tel: (0161) 428 8511 fax: (0161) 428 4320 They supply, Super Octons (5 flat shapes in 6 bright colours), Multilink (2 cm cubes and prisms, which can be made into various shapes), Jovo, sets of multi coloured triangles, squares, pentagons which snap together to make 3D solids, Tessellations, with assorted shapes, a sorting board, templates for making patterns, in 2 sizes, for play on a table or large ones for play on the floor.
  
  
• Longman Logotron, 124 Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 4ZS tel: (01223) 425558 fax: (01223) 425349 They supply Revelation 2, several versions of LOGO and tiling software
  
  
• Multipoly Construction sets, 8 Sunnymead Terrace, TOTNES, Devon, TQ9 5TH tel (01803) 864998 The basic set contains 36 triangles, 12 squares, 12 pentagons, 12 'half hexagons' 300 clips and an instruction manual. Price �30 including UK postage and packing
  
  
• The Molymod system is supplied by Spiring Enterprises Ltd, Billingshurst, West Sussex, RH14 9HF.
  Fax: +44 (0)1403 785215 email: [email protected]
  Web site http://www.molymod.com
  
  
• Norwich Computer Services, 96a Vauxhall Street, Norwich, NR2 2SD tel: (01603) 766582 fax: (01603) 764011 Supply Shareware 44, which includes !WimpPoly polyhedral display program
  
  
• Pentaplex ltd, Royd House, BRIGHOUSE, West Yorkshire, HD6 1JE A series of puzzles based on 5 fold symmetrries, some with precision moulded plastic pieces, cheaper ones made from printed card. products:
  Perplexing poultry, Gamebirds, Pentaplexity, Perplexing Pisces also popular books by Roger Penrose 10 Nov 94
  
  
• Polycrystal Book Service, P.O.Box 3439, Dayton, Ohio 45401-3439 USA tel and fax 513-223-9070 suppliers of books, software etc including those of the American Crsyallographic Association
  
  
• Polydron International Ltd, Kemble, Gloucestershire, GL7 6BA tel: (01285) 770055 fax: (01285) 770171 email: [email protected] 'Polydron' supply multi coloured plastic shapes, either solid or 'framework' sold either individually or packaged into a series of 'resource kits' for work groups in the classroom environment, including parts to make 'The Platonic Solids', the 'Archimedean Solids', simpler kits for nursery schools, and larger 'Schools geometry' kits. They also supply teacher booklets and work cards with maths activities for the National Curriculum Maths activities for key stage 2 levels 2-6. also Polydron USA Inc, California 1-800-452-9978 (toll free)
  
  
• System "8" (UK) Ltd, 20 Shirley Close, MALVERN, Worcestershire WR14 2NH tel: and fax: (01684) 562040 Sets of outline squares and triangles in 6 colours which can be used to make fixed or hinged 3D models
  
  
• Tarquin publications, Stradbroke, DISS, Norfolk, IP21 5JP
  tel: +44 (0) 1379 384 218 fax: +44 (0) 1379 384 289
  Email: [email protected]
  WWW URL http://www.tarquin-books.demon.co.uk
  Supply many types of paper cut out books, posters, sets of blocks, and books associated with mathematics including:
  'Altair Design' pads for colouring patterns,
  'Make Shapes' 3 sets of mathematical models,
  'Mathematical Curiosities' 3 more books each with 9 models,
  'Nets and Solids' with the associated
  'polyhedra stencils', Tarquin polyhedra more complex models,
  Polysymmetrics, Kaleidometrics,
  Symmetry patterns (designs made from lines),
  Tessellation teaching masters
  remastered 'Altair Designs'
  Polydron plastic shapes
  DIME puzzle packs for shape recognition and spatial reasoning
  
  
  
• Taskmaster Ltd, Morris Road, Leicester LE2 6BR tel: 0116 2704286 fax: 0116 2706992 Their 'Book of resources' for Mathematics shows shapes for tessellations and 3D solid building,
  
  
• Topologika Software, PO Box 39, Stilton, PETERBOROUGH, Cambs PE7 3RL tel/fax +44 (01) 733 244682 'The Art Machine' a series of 10 programs associated with the 1990 Art Machine Event at the McLellan Galleries Glasgow. The ones of crystallographic interest are 'patterned tiles', 'snowflakes', 'moving squares','pattern' and 'tiling'. Supplied with a good 'activities' booklet. 'Polyominoes project pack' a series of 3 programs allowing manipulation of shapes made of 5 squares stuck together. For the BBC, Nimbus, and Archimedes RISC-OS 2
  
  
• UNILAB Limited, The Science Park, Hutton Street, Furthergate, BLACKBURN, BB1 3BT, UK tel: (01254) 681222 fax: (01254) 681777 Manufacturers of science, electronics, technology and maths equipment for education, including an excellent 'Bragg Scattering group' which uses microwaves as an analogue for the scattering of X-rays by planes of atoms in crystals.
  
  
  
• The Vega Science Trust, CPES, University of Sussex, BN19QJ
  tel:+44 (0)1 273 678 726   fax:+44 (0)1 273 677 196   email: [email protected]

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