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Mathematical reasoning & proof. Interactivities. Visualising. Learning through exploration. Games. Rotations. Complex numbers. Mental multiplication & division. Making and proving conjectures. Working systematically.There are 110 results
Multiplication Tables - Matching Cards
Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level: 
Interactive game. Set your own level of challenge, practise your table skills and beat your previous best score.
Sliding Puzzle
Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of moves.
Square It
Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4 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.
Tower Rescue
Stage: 2, 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
Help the bee to build a stack of blocks far enough to save his friend trapped in the tower.
Winning Lines
Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
An article for teachers and pupils that encourages you to look at the mathematical properties of similar games.
Flip Flop - Matching Cards
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 person to play on screen. Practise your number bonds whilst improving your memory
Using Games in the Classroom
Stage: 2, 3 and 4
Gillian Hatch analyses what goes on when mathematical games are used as a pedagogic device.
Diagonal Dodge
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Can be played online. One player has 1 red counter, the other has 4 blue. The red counter needs to reach the other side, and the blue needs to trap the red.
GOT IT
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number,say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.
Matching Fractions Decimals Percentages
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
An activity based on the game 'Pelmanism'. Set your own level of challenge and beat your own previous best score.
Penta Play
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A shape and space game for 2,3 or 4 players. Be the last person to be able to place a pentomino piece on the playing board. Play with card, or on the computer.
Games Related to Nim
Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4
This article for teachers describes several games, found on the site, all of which have a related structure that can be used to develop the skills of strategic planning.
Intersection Sums Sudoku
Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
A Sudoku with clues given as sums of entries.
First Connect Three
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
The idea of this game is to add or subtract the two numbers on the dice and cover the result on the grid, trying to get a line of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
Making Maths: Snake Pits
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game to make and play based on the number line.
Tangram Pictures
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Use the tangram pieces to make our pictures, or to design some of your own!
Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 4. from Strategy Games
Stage: 1, 2 and 3
Basic strategy games are particularly suitable as starting points for investigations. Players instinctively try to discover a winning strategy, and usually the best way to do this is to analyse. . . .
Strike it Out
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.
Nim-7
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you work out how to win this game of Nim? Does it matter if you go first or second?
Diagonal Sums Sudoku
Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Solve this Sudoku puzzle whose clues are in the form of sums of the numbers which should appear in diagonal opposite cells.
Shunting Puzzle
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A shunting puzzle for 1 person. Swop the positions of the counters at the top and bottom of the board.
Roll the Dice
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 person. Can you work out how the dice must be rolled from the start position to the finish? Play on line.
Domino Magic Rectangle
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
An ordinary set of dominoes can be laid out as a 7 by 4 magic rectangle in which all the spots in all the columns add to 24, while those in the rows add to 42. Try it! Now try the magic square...
Coordinate Cunning
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people that can be played on line or with pens and paper. Combine your knowledege of coordinates with your skills of strategic thinking.
Chocolate Bars
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
An interactive game to be played on your own or with friends. Imagine you are having a party. Each person takes it in turns to stand behind the chair where they will get the most chocolate.
Scissors, Paper, Rock
Stage: 1 Challenge Level:
Play this well-known game against the computer where each player is equally likely to choose scissors, paper or rock. Why not try the variations too?
Building Stars
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
An interactive activity for one to experiment with a tricky tessellation
Horizontal Vertical
Stage: 1 Challenge Level:
Take it in turns to place a domino on the grid. One to be placed horizontally and the other vertically. Can you make it impossible for your opponent to play?
Fractions and Coins Game
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Work out the fractions to match the cards with the same amount of money.
Traffic Lights
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
The game uses a 3x3 square board. 2 players take turns to play, either placing a red on an empty square, or changing a red to orange, or orange to green. The player who forms 3 of 1 colour in a line. . . .
Achi
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This game for two players is played in Ghana, but stones that were marked for this game in the third century AD have been found near Hadrian's Wall in Northern England.
Two Stones
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A simple game to understand; a player wins when they have blocked their opponent. An interactive version is available on line.
Roundabout
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This is a game for 2 players. Each player has 4 counters each, and wins by blocking their opponent's counters. A good follow-on from two stones.
Wild Jack
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 or more players with a pack of cards. Practise your skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to hit the target score.
Counter Roundup
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 or 2 people. Use the interactive version, or play with friends. Try to round up as many counters as possible.
Down to Nothing
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 or more people. Starting with 100, subratct a number from 1 to 9 from the total. You score for making an odd number, a number ending in 0 or a multiple of 6.
Oware
Stage: 1 Challenge Level:
Oware is a Mankala-like game of strategy. Simple rules, but not so simple to win - and you'd better be good at counting! Play the computer or play a friend.
Low Go
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Take turns to place a counter so that it occupies one of the lowest possible positions in the grid. The first player to complete a line of 4 wins.
Jumping Reindeer
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 person to develop stategy and shape and space awareness. 12 counters are placed on a board. Counters are removed one at a time. The aim is to be left with only 1 counter.
Stop or Dare
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game to explore the basics of probability. Ideal for stimulating discussion with appropriate vocabulary
Board Block
Stage: 1 Challenge Level:
Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?
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