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You'll need two dice to play this game against a partner. Will Incey Wincey make it to the top of the drain pipe or the bottom of the drain pipe first?
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!
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
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?
Can you work through these direct proofs, using our interactive proof sorters?
Use the interactivities to complete these Venn diagrams.
Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the robber in the minimum number of guesses?
Place the numbers 1 to 6 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
Can you locate these values on this interactive logarithmic scale?
Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?
This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?
This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.
Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?
The idea of this game is to add or subtract the two numbers on the dice and cover the result on the grid, trying to get a line of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
Have you seen this way of doing multiplication ?
How good are you at finding the formula for a number pattern ?
How have the numbers been placed in this Carroll diagram? Which labels would you put on each row and column?
Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?
If you hang two weights on one side of this balance, in how many different ways can you hang three weights on the other side for it to be balanced?
Use your mouse to move the red and green parts of this disc. Can you make images which show the turnings described?
Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?
An environment that simulates a protractor carrying a right- angled triangle of unit hypotenuse.
Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Use the interactivity to help you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had.
Can you complete this jigsaw of the multiplication square?
Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?
Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.
What do the numbers shaded in blue on this hundred square have in common? What do you notice about the pink numbers? How about the shaded numbers in the other squares?
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
Can you put these shapes in order of size? Start with the smallest.
Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.
The number of plants in Mr McGregor's magic potting shed increases overnight. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of his gardens, planting one garden each day. How can he do it?
Mr McGregor has a magic potting shed. Overnight, the number of plants in it doubles. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of three gardens, planting one garden each day. Can he do it?
Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.
Imagine picking up a bow and some arrows and attempting to hit the target a few times. Can you work out the settings for the sight that give you the best chance of gaining a high score?
Explore displacement/time and velocity/time graphs with this mouse motion sensor.
Carry out some time trials and gather some data to help you decide on the best training regime for your rowing crew.
Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects its vertical and horizontal movement at each stage.
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects its speed at each stage.
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects the distance it travels at each stage.
What is the quickest route across a ploughed field when your speed around the edge is greater?
Can you work out how to balance this equaliser? You can put more than one weight on a hook.
Use the number weights to find different ways of balancing the equaliser.
Can you hang weights in the right place to make the equaliser balance?
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.
How do scores on dice and factors of polynomials relate to each other?
An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.
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?
