12 eye-catching A4 posters celebrating Black mathematicians and African mathematical traditions, each with a short biography and a ‘maths moment’ puzzle.

Brighten your maths corridor or classroom for Black History Month with this set of 12 display posters. Each poster gives the key facts about one mathematician or tradition, plus a quick ‘maths moment’ puzzle with its answer printed upside down.
Posters included:
• Title poster: Mathematicians Who Changed the World
• The Ishango Bone (about 20 000 years old)
• Thomas Fuller, the ‘Virginia Calculator’
• Benjamin Banneker
• Elbert Frank Cox, the first Black person to earn a maths PhD
• Euphemia Lofton Haynes, the first African American woman to earn a maths PhD
• Dorothy Vaughan (NASA)
• Katherine Johnson (NASA)
• David Blackwell
• Gladys West (GPS)
• Nira Chamberlain, British mathematical modeller
• Sona sand drawings from Angola
What’s included:
• Editable PowerPoint (A4 portrait, one poster per slide)
• Print-ready PDF (prints well at A4 or A3)
The designs use a bold black, gold, red and green geometric pattern and contain no photographs. Facts were checked against NASA, MacTutor, university and professional-body sources in October 2026. Works perfectly alongside the KS3 and KS4 Black History Month maths lessons.