
Use the interactivity or play this dice game yourself. How could you make it fair?

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?

You'll need two dice to play this game against a partner. Will Incey Wincey make it to the top of the drain pipe or the bottom of the drain pipe first?

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.

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.

An interactive activity for one to experiment with a tricky tessellation

A game to be played against the computer, or in groups. Pick a 7-digit number. A random digit is generated. What must you subract to remove the digit from your number? the first to zero wins.

A game for 1 or 2 people. Use the interactive version, or play with friends. Try to round up as many counters as possible.

Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these clocks?

Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these people?

Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the child walking home from school?

Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the lobster, yacht and cyclist?

Place the ten odd numbers less than 20 in the grid so that at least four rectangles can be drawn around groups of four odd numbers whose sum is 34.

Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the chairs?

Exchange the positions of the two sets of counters in the least possible number of moves

A game for 2 people that everybody knows. You can play with a friend or online. If you play correctly you never lose!

Find out how we can describe the "symmetries" of this triangle and investigate some combinations of rotating and flipping it.

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?

Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.

How can the same pieces of the tangram make this bowl before and after it was chipped? Use the interactivity to try and work out what is going on!

Investigate how the four L-shapes fit together to make an enlarged L-shape. You could explore this idea with other shapes too.

Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?

Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?

How many different rhythms can you make by putting two drums on the wheel?

What are the coordinates of the coloured dots that mark out the tangram? Try changing the position of the origin. What happens to the coordinates now?

A tetromino is made up of four squares joined edge to edge. Can this tetromino, together with 15 copies of itself, be used to cover an eight by eight chessboard?

You have 4 red and 5 blue counters. How many ways can they be placed on a 3 by 3 grid so that all the rows columns and diagonals have an even number of red counters?

Move just three of the circles so that the triangle faces in the opposite direction.

Starting with the number 180, take away 9 again and again, joining up the dots as you go. Watch out - don't join all the dots!

Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this brazier for roasting chestnuts?

Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this telephone?

Terry and Ali are playing a game with three balls. Is it fair that Terry wins when the middle ball is red?

Complete the squares - but be warned some are trickier than they look!

Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.

Can you work out how to balance this equaliser? You can put more than one weight on a hook.

A virtual geoboard that allows you to create shapes by stretching rubber bands between pegs on the board. Allows a variable number of pegs and variable grid geometry and includes a point labeller.

Which of these sets of numbered balls will give the most even totals when two balls are chosen from them?

Can you find all the different ways of lining up these Cuisenaire rods?

Can you make a cycle of pairs that add to make a square number using all the numbers in the box below, once and once only?

Our 2008 Advent Calendar has a 'Making Maths' activity for every day in the run-up to Christmas.

Use the sightings of the lion to guess the location of its lair.

Can you see why 2 by 2 could be 5? Can you predict what 2 by 10 will be?