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A counter is placed in the bottom right hand corner of a grid. You toss a coin and move the star according to the following rules: ... What is the probability that you end up in the top left-hand. . . .
Four cards are shuffled and placed into two piles of two. Starting with the first pile of cards - turn a card over... You win if all your cards end up in the trays before you run out of cards in. . . .
Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?
This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.
Is this a fair game? How many ways are there of creating a fair game by adding odd and even numbers?
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.
7 balls are shaken in a container. You win if the two blue balls touch. What is the probability of winning?
This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support work on loci at Key Stage 4.
A group of interactive resources to support work on percentages Key Stage 4.
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
A simple file for the Interactive whiteboard or PC screen, demonstrating equivalent fractions.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to explore number in this exciting game!
Euler discussed whether or not it was possible to stroll around Koenigsberg crossing each of its seven bridges exactly once. Experiment with different numbers of islands and bridges.
Use Excel to investigate the effect of translations around a number grid.
The interactive diagram has two labelled points, A and B. It is designed to be used with the problem "Cushion Ball"
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?
Can you beat Piggy in this simple dice game? Can you figure out Piggy's strategy, and is there a better one?
Can you give the coordinates of the vertices of the fifth point in the patterm on this 3D grid?
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
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.
Discover a handy way to describe reorderings and solve our anagram in the process.
Match pairs of cards so that they have equivalent ratios.
This resource contains interactive problems to support work on number sequences at Key Stage 4.
An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
This resource contains a range of problems and interactivities on the theme of coordinates in two and three dimensions.
Can you find all the 4-ball shuffles?
This game challenges you to locate hidden triangles in The White Box by firing rays and observing where the rays exit the Box.
Identical discs are flipped in the air. You win if all of the faces show the same colour. Can you calculate the probability of winning with n discs?
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day of Advent.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and multiples.
Six balls of various colours are randomly shaken into a trianglular arrangement. What is the probability of having at least one red in the corner?
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. . . .
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.
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.
Use Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
Practice your skills of measurement and estimation using this interactive measurement tool based around fascinating images from biology.
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.
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.
Can you break down this conversion process into logical steps?
Practise your skills of proportional reasoning with this interactive haemocytometer.
This is an interactivity in which you have to sort the steps in the completion of the square into the correct order to prove the formula for the solutions of quadratic equations.
A tool for generating random integers.
A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.
A game for 2 players. Can be played online. One player has 1 red counter, the other has 4 blue. The red counter needs to reach the other side, and the blue needs to trap the red.
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. . . .
If you continue the pattern, can you predict what each of the following areas will be? Try to explain your prediction.
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.
The opposite vertices of a square have coordinates (a,b) and (c,d). What are the coordinates of the other vertices?