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This game challenges you to locate hidden triangles in The White Box by firing rays and observing where the rays exit the Box.
This is an interactive net of a Rubik's cube. Twists of the 3D cube become mixes of the squares on the 2D net. Have a play and see how many scrambles you can undo!
A right-angled isosceles triangle is rotated about the centre point of a square. What can you say about the area of the part of the square covered by the triangle as it rotates?
Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour is repeated, that is all 4 colours appear.
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.
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.
This resource contains a range of problems and interactivities on the theme of coordinates in two and three dimensions.
Which exact dilution ratios can you make using only 2 dilutions?
Match pairs of cards so that they have equivalent ratios.
A mathematically themed crossword.
The interactive diagram has two labelled points, A and B. It is designed to be used with the problem "Cushion Ball"
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. . . .
Can you break down this conversion process into logical steps?
This resources contains a series of interactivities designed to support work on transformations at Key Stage 4.
Can you fill in the mixed up numbers in this dilution calculation?
There are thirteen axes of rotational symmetry of a unit cube. Describe them all. What is the average length of the parts of the axes of symmetry which lie inside the cube?
An environment for exploring the properties of small groups.
On the 3D grid a strange (and deadly) animal is lurking. Using the tracking system can you locate this creature as quickly as possible?
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
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. . . .
Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support work on loci at Key Stage 4.
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.
Rotate a copy of the trapezium about the centre of the longest side of the blue triangle to make a square. Find the area of the square and then derive a formula for the area of the trapezium.
Find all the ways of placing the numbers 1 to 9 on a W shape, with 3 numbers on each leg, so that each set of 3 numbers has the same total.
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?
Can you give the coordinates of the vertices of the fifth point in the patterm on this 3D grid?
Practise your skills of proportional reasoning with this interactive haemocytometer.
in how many ways can you place the numbers 1, 2, 3 … 9 in the nine regions of the Olympic Emblem (5 overlapping circles) so that the amount in each ring is the same?
Can you locate these values on this interactive logarithmic scale?
Which dilutions can you make using 10ml pipettes and 100ml measuring cylinders?
Mathmo is a revision tool for post-16 mathematics. It's great installed as a smartphone app, but it works well in pads and desktops and notebooks too. Give yourself a mathematical workout!
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 Excel to practise adding and subtracting fractions.
Use an interactive Excel spreadsheet to investigate factors and multiples.
Use an Excel spreadsheet to explore long multiplication.
P is a point on the circumference of a circle radius r which rolls, without slipping, inside a circle of radius 2r. What is the locus of P?
A weekly challenge concerning prime numbers.
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
Take any parallelogram and draw squares on the sides of the parallelogram. What can you prove about the quadrilateral formed by joining the centres of these squares?
The classic vector racing game brought to a screen near you.
Play a more cerebral countdown using complex numbers.
A simple file for the Interactive whiteboard or PC screen, demonstrating equivalent fractions.
An Excel spreadsheet with an investigation.
Triangle ABC has equilateral triangles drawn on its edges. Points P, Q and R are the centres of the equilateral triangles. What can you prove about the triangle PQR?
A tool for generating random integers.
Help the bee to build a stack of blocks far enough to save his friend trapped in the tower.
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.
Overlaying pentominoes can produce some effective patterns. Why not use LOGO to try out some of the ideas suggested here?
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.