These lower primary activities and games have interactive content. Have a play on a laptop, tablet or computer!
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Stop the Clock for Two
Stop the Clock game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you always win this game?
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Seeing Squares for Two
Seeing Squares game for an adult and child. Can you come up with a way of always winning this game?
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Board Block for Two
Board Block game for two. Can you stop your partner from being able to make a shape on the board?
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Interactive Balance
In this simulation of a balance, you can drag numbers and parts of number sentences on to the trays. Have a play!
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Tangrams
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Can you make five differently sized squares from the interactive tangram pieces?
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Equivalent Pairs
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Can you match pairs of cards which show the same amount?
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Always, Sometimes or Never? KS1
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Are these statements relating to calculation and properties of shapes always true, sometimes true or never true?
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Matching Numbers for Two
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Matching Numbers game for an adult and child. Can you remember where the cards are so you can choose two which match?
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Matching numbers
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Can you find different ways of showing the same number? Try this matching game and see!
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Find the Difference
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Place the numbers 1 to 6 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
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Repeating Patterns
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?
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Inside Triangles
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
How many different triangles can you draw on the dotty grid which each have one dot in the middle?
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Matching Triangles
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?
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100 Square Jigsaw
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?
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Turning Man
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.
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Cover the Camel
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Can you cover the camel with these pieces?
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Same Length Trains
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
How many trains can you make which are the same length as Matt's and Katie's, using rods that are identical?
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Board Block
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?
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Fraction Card Game
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Can you match the halves in this interactive game?
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Cuisenaire Counting
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Here are some rods that are different colours. How could I make a yellow rod using white and red rods?
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Robot Monsters
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
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Multiplication Tables - matching cards
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Practise your tables skills and try to beat your previous best score in this interactive game.
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Flip Flop - matching cards
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Practise your number bonds whilst improving your memory in this matching pairs game.
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Chain of Changes
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Arrange the shapes in a line so that you change either colour or shape in the next piece along. Can you find several ways to start with a blue triangle and end with a red circle?
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One Big Triangle
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Make one big triangle so the numbers that touch on the small triangles add to 10.
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4 Dom
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.
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Colouring Triangles
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?
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Three Way Mix Up
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Jack has nine tiles. He put them together to make a square so that two tiles of the same colour were not beside each other. Can you find another way to do it?
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Teddy Town
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?
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Four Triangles Puzzle
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?
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Ladybird Box
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.
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Largest Even
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number from the digit I've given you and one of your choice?
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Tables Teaser
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
How will you work out which numbers have been used to create this multiplication square?
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Poly Plug Rectangles
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?
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Triangle Edges
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
How many triangles can you make using sticks that are 3cm, 4cm and 5cm long?
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Junior Frogs
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Have a go at this well-known challenge. Can you swap the frogs and toads in as few slides and jumps as possible?
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Gathering Gems
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Using compass points, can you describe up to ten paths on this map so that you bring as many gems back home as possible?
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Change Around
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Move just three of the circles so that the triangle faces in the
opposite direction.
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Two and One
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Terry and Ali are playing a game with three balls. Is it fair that
Terry wins when the middle ball is red?
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Three Ball Line Up
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.
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Red or Black Spinner
A simple spinner that is equally likely to land on Red or Black. Useful if tossing a coin, dropping it, and rummaging about on the floor have lost their appeal. Needs a modern browser; if IE then at least version 9.
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Light the Lights
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?
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Two-digit targets
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
You have a set of the digits from 0 to 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?
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Celebrate 25 Years of NRICH
To celebrate NRICH's 25th birthday, why not play this special version of our classic game, Got It? Can you devise a strategy so that you will always win?
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Seeing Squares
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.
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Tangram Tangle
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?
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Sizing them Up
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Can you put these shapes in order of size? Start with the smallest.
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Seesaw Shenanigans
Age
3 to 7
Challenge level
A group of animals has made a seesaw in the woods. How can you make the seesaw balance?
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Carroll Diagrams
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?
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Growing Garlic
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?
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Venn diagrams
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
How will you complete these interactive Venn diagrams?
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Sort the Street
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
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Three Squares
Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?
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Matching Time
Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
Try this matching game which will help you recognise different ways of saying the same time interval.
Older lower primary Flash-based interactives
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