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Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?
Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?
What does the overlap of these two shapes look like? Try picturing it in your head and then use the interactivity to test your prediction.
What happens when you try and fit the triomino pieces into these two grids?
Three beads are threaded on a circular wire and are coloured either red or blue. Can you find all four different combinations?
Can you cover the camel with these pieces?
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.
What shaped overlaps can you make with two circles which are the same size? What shapes are 'left over'? What shapes can you make when the circles are different sizes?
An odd version of tic tac toe
A card pairing game involving knowledge of simple ratio.
Try to stop your opponent from being able to split the piles of counters into unequal numbers. Can you find a strategy?
This was a problem for our birthday website. Can you use four of these pieces to form a square? How about making a square with all five pieces?
If there are 3 squares in the ring, can you place three different numbers in them so that their differences are odd? Try with different numbers of squares around the ring. What do you notice?
Match the halves.
Work out the fractions to match the cards with the same amount of money.
Use your mouse to move the red and green parts of this disc. Can you make images which show the turnings described?
How many right angles can you make using two sticks?
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?
Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.
Use the Cuisenaire rods environment to investigate ratio. Can you find pairs of rods in the ratio 3:2? How about 9:6?
Exchange the positions of the two sets of counters in the least possible number of moves
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
A game for 2 people that everybody knows. You can play with a friend or online. If you play correctly you never lose!
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?
Move just three of the circles so that the triangle faces in the opposite direction.
An interactive activity for one to experiment with a tricky tessellation
Find out how we can describe the "symmetries" of this triangle and investigate some combinations of rotating and flipping it.
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 2 people that can be played on line or with pens and paper. Combine your knowledege of coordinates with your skills of strategic thinking.
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?
An interactive game for 1 person. You are given a rectangle with 50 squares on it. Roll the dice to get a percentage between 2 and 100. How many squares is this? Keep going until you get 100. . . .
A generic circular pegboard resource.
A variant on the game Alquerque
A game for 1 or 2 people. Use the interactive version, or play with friends. Try to round up as many counters as possible.
If you can post the triangle with either the blue or yellow colour face up, how many ways can it be posted altogether?
Our 2008 Advent Calendar has a 'Making Maths' activity for every day in the run-up to Christmas.
Ahmed has some wooden planks to use for three sides of a rabbit run against the shed. What quadrilaterals would he be able to make with the planks of different lengths?
Use the blue spot to help you move the yellow spot from one star to the other. How are the trails of the blue and yellow spots related?
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?
A train building game for 2 players.
Choose 13 spots on the grid. Can you work out the scoring system? What is the maximum possible score?
Use the sightings of the lion to guess the location of its lair.
Twenty four games for the run-up to Christmas.
Complete the squares - but be warned some are trickier than they look!
Can you make the green spot travel through the tube by moving the yellow spot? Could you draw a tube that both spots would follow?
Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Use the interactivity to help you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had.
This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
Use the clues to colour each square.