64 Matches in Stage 1

Tug of War

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?

Square It

Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

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.

Snap

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Try this version of Snap with a friend - do you know the order of the days of the week?

Stop the Clock

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?

Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 1. Why Games?

Stage: 1

This article supplies teachers with information that may be useful in better understanding the nature of games and their role in teaching and learning mathematics.

Incey Wincey Spider

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

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?

Multiplication Tables - Matching Cards

Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Interactive game. Set your own level of challenge, practise your table skills and beat your previous best score.

Mulinello Quadrupio

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

An investigation based on 'Mulinello', a 'five in a line' game for two players.

Name the Children

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Can you find out in which order the children are standing in this line?

Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 4. from Strategy Games

Stage: 1, 2 and 3

Basic strategy games are particularly suitable as starting points for investigations. Players instinctively try to discover a winning strategy, and usually the best way to do this is to analyse. . . .

Oware

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Oware is a Mankala-like game of strategy. Simple rules, but not so simple to win - and you'd better be good at counting! Play the computer or play a friend.

Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 2.types of Games

Stage: 1

This article, the second in the series, looks at some different types of games and the sort of mathematical thinking they can develop.

Learning Mathematics Through Games: 3. Creating Your Own Games

Stage: 1

Not all of us a bursting with creative game ideas, but there are several ways to go about creating a game that will assist even the busiest and most reluctant game designer.

Crocogator a Game for Two Players

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Imported legacy Object

Games Related to Nim

Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4

This article for teachers describes several games, found on the site, all of which have a related structure that can be used to develop the skills of strategic planning.

Tantaliser

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Imported legacy Object

Fraction Card Game 1

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Match the halves.

Odd Tic Tac

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Imported legacy Object

Sliding Puzzle

Stage: 1, 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

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.

Technical Help

Stage: 1

Sz'kwa

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

A Chinese children's strategy game.

Tac-tickle

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

This is a challenging game of strategy for two players with many interesting variations.

Tangram Pictures

Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:

Use the tangram pieces to make our pictures, or to design some of your own!

Game of PIG - Ones

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Imported legacy Object

Scissors, Paper, Rock

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Play this well-known game against the computer where each player is equally likely to choose scissors, paper or rock. Why not try the variations too?

Instant Insanity

Stage: 1 and 3 Challenge Level:

We have a set of four very innocent-looking cubes - each face coloured red, blue, green or white - and they have to be arranged in a row so that all of the four colours appear on each of the. . . .

Line of Four

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

A game somewhat similar to 'noughts and crosses' on a much larger space.

Parents, Children and Maths

Stage: 1

Jenny Murray writes about the sessions she leads in schools for parents to work alongside children on mathematical problems, puzzles and games.

Four Go

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

This challenge is a game for two players. Choose two numbers from the grid and multiply or divide, then mark your answer on the number line. Can you get four in a row before your partner?

Board Block

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?

Totality

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

This is a game for two players.

Going for Games

Stage: 1 and 2

In this article for teachers, Liz Woodham describes the criteria she uses to choose mathematical games for the classroom and shares some examples from NRICH.

Strike it Out

Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:

Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.

Go Moku

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

A game for two players on a large squared space.

Dragons and Swans a Game for Two Players

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Imported legacy Object

Poker Bingo

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

A game played with a standard pack of cards.

Continuing Professional Development

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Flip Flop - Matching Cards

Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:

A game for 1 person to play on screen. Practise your number bonds whilst improving your memory

Sumo

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Reasoning based on this Japanese activity.

A Maths Afternoon

Stage: 1

This article describes no ordinary maths lesson. There were 24 children, mostly Years 3 and 4, and there were 17 adults working with them - mothers, fathers, one grandmother and two grandfathers, a. . . .

Shut the Box

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Try this old game that is very useful for so many arithmetical relationships.

Path of Discovery Series: 2. First Steps

Stage: 1

This article takes a closer look at some of the toys and games that can enhance a child's mathematical learning.

About NRICH: NRICH

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Read about how NRICH began and where we have come since then.

Multiplication Series: Number Arrays

Stage: 1 and 2

This article for teachers describes how number arrays can be a useful reprentation for many number concepts.

Up and Down Donkey

Stage: 1 Challenge Level:

Imported legacy Object

Making Maths: Snake Pits

Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:

A game to make and play based on the number line.

Path of Discovery Series: 1. Uncertain Beginnings

Stage: 1

Marion Bond suggests that we try to imagine mathematical knowledge as a broad crazy paving rather than a path of stepping stones. There is no one right place to start and there is no one right route. . . .

A Japanese Mathematics Lesson

Stage: 1, 2 and 3

Jenni Way describes her visit to a Japanese mathematics classroom.

Positive about Negative Numbers

Stage: 1 and 2

In this article for teachers, Liz Woodham describes resources on NRICH that can help primary-aged children get to grips with negative numbers.

Number Sense Series: Developing Early Number Sense

Stage: 1

This article for teachers suggests teaching strategies and resources that can help to develop children's number sense.