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Football World Cup Simulation
Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level: 
A maths-based Football World Cup simulation for teachers and students to use.
Stop or Dare
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game to explore the basics of probability. Ideal for stimulating discussion with appropriate vocabulary
The Twelve Pointed Star Game
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Have a go at this game which involves throwing two dice and adding their totals. Where should you place your counters to be more likely to win?
Snail Trails
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
This is a game for two players. You will need some small-square grid paper, a die and two felt-tip pens or highlighters. Players take turns to roll the die, then move that number of squares in. . . .
Game of PIG - Sixes
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Players all start with zero points, they take turns to throw the dice as many times as they like, adding the total at each throw to their cumulative total.
Slippery Snail
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people. Take turns to move the counters 1, 2 or 3 spaces. The player to remove the last counter off the board wins.
Tricky Track
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In this game you throw two dice and find their total, then move the appropriate counter to the right. Which counter reaches the purple box first? Is this what you would expect?
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.
Do You Measure Up?
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for two or more players that uses a knowledge of measuring tools. Spin the spinner and identify which jobs can be done with the measuring tool shown.
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.
Patience
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
A simple game of patience which often comes out. Can you explain why?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nim-interactive
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Start with any number of counters in any number of piles. 2 players take it in turns to remove any number of counters from a single pile. The winner is the player to take the last counter.
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.
Tug Harder!
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In this game, you can add, subtract, multiply or divide the numbers on the dice. Which will you do so that you get to the end of the number line first?
Criss Cross Quiz
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Practises subtraction or other maths operations knowledge.
Ratio Pairs 3
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Match pairs of cards so that they have equivalent ratios.
Online - a Game for Two Players
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players that can be played online. Players take it in turns to select a word from the 9 words given. The aim is to select all the occurrences of the same letter.
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. . . .
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.
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.
Squayles
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Given an arrangement of matchsticks, players take it is turns to remove a matchstick, along with all of the matchsticks that touch it.
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.
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. . . .
Conway's Chequerboard Army
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Here is a solitaire type environment for you to experiment with. Which targets can you reach?
Quadruple Clue Sudoku
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Four numbers on an intersection that need to be placed in the surrounding cells. That is all you need to know to solve this sudoku.
Making Maths: Birds from an Egg
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?
Twin Corresponding Sudokus II
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Two sudokus in one. Challenge yourself to make the necessary connections.
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.
Diamond Collector
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Collect as many diamonds as you can by drawing three straight lines.
Making Maths: Happy Families
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Here is a version of the game 'Happy Families' for you to make and play.
The Remainders Game
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game that tests your understanding of remainders.
Going for Games
Stage: 1 and 2
In this article for teachers, Liz Woodham describes the criteria she uses to choose mathematical games for the classroom and shares some examples from NRICH.
Tangram Pictures
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Use the tangram pieces to make our pictures, or to design some of your own!
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.
Nice and Nasty
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
Twin Corresponding Sudoku III
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Two sudokus in one. Challenge yourself to make the necessary connections.
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.
Fifteen
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Fifteen is a game for two players that you can play anywhere, anytime. Players take it in turns to select a number from 1 to 9. The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
Fractions and Coins Game
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Work out the fractions to match the cards with the same amount of money.
Diamond Mine
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Practise your diamond mining skills and your x,y coordination in this homage to Pacman.
Seasonal Twin Sudokus
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
This pair of linked Sudokus matches letters with numbers and hides a seasonal greeting. Can you find it?
Making Maths: Snake Pits
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game to make and play based on the number line.
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