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Help the bee to build a stack of blocks far enough to save his friend trapped in the tower.
Match pairs of cards so that they have equivalent ratios.
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
Match the cards of the same value.
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.
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 interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and multiples.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to explore number in this exciting game!
Use Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
The classic vector racing game brought to a screen near you.
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.
A tool for generating random integers.
This game challenges you to locate hidden triangles in The White Box by firing rays and observing where the rays exit the Box.
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day of Advent.
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.
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.
Can you beat Piggy in this simple dice game? Can you figure out Piggy's strategy, and is there a better one?
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. . . .
An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
A metal puzzle which led to some mathematical questions.
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?
A collection of resources to support work on Factors and Multiples at Secondary level.
Can you be the first to complete a row of three?
Can you discover whether this is a fair game?
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.
Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the robber in the minimum number of guesses?
This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.
Try this interactive strategy game for 2
Do you know how to find the area of a triangle? You can count the squares. What happens if we turn the triangle on end? Press the button and see. Try counting the number of units in the triangle now. . . .
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!
Find out how we can describe the "symmetries" of this triangle and investigate some combinations of rotating and flipping it.
A tilted square is a square with no horizontal sides. Can you devise a general instruction for the construction of a square when you are given just one of its sides?
Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?
A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the. . . .
These formulae are often quoted, but rarely proved. In this article, we derive the formulae for the volumes of a square-based pyramid and a cone, using relatively simple mathematical concepts.
Place the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares below so that the difference between joined squares is odd. How many different ways can you do this?
Can you locate the lost giraffe? Input coordinates to help you search and find the giraffe in the fewest guesses.
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.
This problem is based on a code using two different prime numbers less than 10. You'll need to multiply them together and shift the alphabet forwards by the result. Can you decipher the code?
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.
How have the numbers been placed in this Carroll diagram? Which labels would you put on each row and column?
Is this a fair game? How many ways are there of creating a fair game by adding odd and even numbers?
Can you see why 2 by 2 could be 5? Can you predict what 2 by 10 will be?
Can you coach your rowing eight to win?
Can you find all the 4-ball shuffles?