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Overlaying pentominoes can produce some effective patterns. Why not use LOGO to try out some of the ideas suggested here?
Investigate how logic gates work in circuits.
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.
Use Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
Match pairs of cards so that they have equivalent ratios.
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
Can you set the logic gates so that the number of bulbs which are on is the same as the number of switches which are on?
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to explore number in this exciting game!
Use Excel to investigate the effect of translations around a number grid.
A simple file for the Interactive whiteboard or PC screen, demonstrating equivalent fractions.
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and multiples.
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day of Advent.
Help the bee to build a stack of blocks far enough to save his friend trapped in the tower.
Two circles of equal radius touch at P. One circle is fixed whilst the other moves, rolling without slipping, all the way round. How many times does the moving coin revolve before returning to P?
A tool for generating random integers.
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
The classic vector racing game brought to a screen near you.
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
This game challenges you to locate hidden triangles in The White Box by firing rays and observing where the rays exit the Box.
Use this animation to experiment with lotteries. Choose how many balls to match, how many are in the carousel, and how many draws to make at once.
Use the interactivity to listen to the bells ringing a pattern. Now it's your turn! Play one of the bells yourself. How do you know when it is your turn to ring?
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
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.
Here is a solitaire type environment for you to experiment with. Which targets can you reach?
An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
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. . . .
Can you be the first to complete a row of three?
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?
Match the cards of the same value.
A collection of resources to support work on Factors and Multiples at Secondary 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.
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.
You have 27 small cubes, 3 each of nine colours. Use the small cubes to make a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that each face of the bigger cube contains one of every colour.
Use the interactivity to play two of the bells in a pattern. How do you know when it is your turn to ring, and how do you know which bell to ring?
Can you beat Piggy in this simple dice game? Can you figure out Piggy's strategy, and is there a better one?
Find out how we can describe the "symmetries" of this triangle and investigate some combinations of rotating and flipping it.
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?
A metal puzzle which led to some mathematical questions.
Slide the pieces to move Khun Phaen past all the guards into the position on the right from which he can escape to freedom.
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?
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?
Use the interactivity to make this Islamic star and cross design. Can you produce a tessellation of regular octagons with two different types of triangle?
Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be removed. Click to remover them. The winner is the last one to remove a counter. How you can make sure you win?
Three beads are threaded on a circular wire and are coloured either red or blue. Can you find all four different combinations?
Show how this pentagonal tile can be used to tile the plane and describe the transformations which map this pentagon to its images in the tiling.
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Fung at the table?
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.