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Explore displacement/time and velocity/time graphs with this mouse motion sensor.
Which dilutions can you make using 10ml pipettes and 100ml measuring cylinders?
Can you fill in the mixed up numbers in this dilution calculation?
Can you break down this conversion process into logical steps?
Which exact dilution ratios can you make using only 2 dilutions?
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?
It is possible to identify a particular card out of a pack of 15 with the use of some mathematical reasoning. What is this reasoning and can it be applied to other numbers of cards?
Use the computer to model an epidemic. Try out public health policies to control the spread of the epidemic, to minimise the number of sick days and deaths.
Practise your skills of proportional reasoning with this interactive haemocytometer.
A ladder 3m long rests against a wall with one end a short distance from its base. Between the wall and the base of a ladder is a garden storage box 1m tall and 1m high. What is the maximum. . . .
Practice your skills of measurement and estimation using this interactive measurement tool based around fascinating images from biology.
An environment that simulates a protractor carrying a right- angled triangle of unit hypotenuse.
A metal puzzle which led to some mathematical questions.
Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
Meg and Mo need to hang their marbles so that they balance. Use the interactivity to experiment and find out what they need to do.
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.
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
Investigate how logic gates work in circuits.
Meg and Mo still need to hang their marbles so that they balance, but this time the constraints are different. Use the interactivity to experiment and find out what they need to do.
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .
Interactive game. Set your own level of challenge, practise your table skills and beat your previous best score.
This resource contains interactive problems to support work on number sequences at Key Stage 4.
There are 27 small cubes in a 3 x 3 x 3 cube, 54 faces being visible at any one time. Is it possible to reorganise these cubes so that by dipping the large cube into a pot of paint three times you. . . .
Can you give the coordinates of the vertices of the fifth point in the patterm on this 3D grid?
Practise your diamond mining skills and your x,y coordination in this homage to Pacman.
An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
Discover a handy way to describe reorderings and solve our anagram in the process.
Match the cards of the same value.
Learn how to use the Shuffles interactivity by running through these tutorial demonstrations.
Show that for any triangle it is always possible to construct 3 touching circles with centres at the vertices. Is it possible to construct touching circles centred at the vertices of any polygon?
The interactive diagram has two labelled points, A and B. It is designed to be used with the problem "Cushion Ball"
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
Match pairs of cards so that they have equivalent ratios.
This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support work on loci at Key Stage 4.
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?
This resource contains a range of problems and interactivities on the theme of coordinates in two and three dimensions.
How good are you at finding the formula for a number pattern ?
Help the bee to build a stack of blocks far enough to save his friend trapped in the tower.
Mo has left, but Meg is still experimenting. Use the interactivity to help you find out how she can alter her pouch of marbles and still keep the two pouches balanced.
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day of Advent.
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
A java applet that takes you through the steps needed to solve a Diophantine equation of the form Px+Qy=1 using Euclid's algorithm.
A game for 1 person to play on screen. Practise your number bonds whilst improving your memory
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.
How many different triangles can you make which consist of the centre point and two of the points on the edge? Can you work out each of their angles?
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
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. . . .