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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

Can you find out in which order the children are standing in this line?
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 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.
This article, the second in the series, looks at some different types of games and the sort of mathematical thinking they can develop.
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.
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.

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

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

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?

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. . . .

A game somewhat similar to 'noughts and crosses' on a much larger space.
Jenny Murray writes about the sessions she leads in schools for parents to work alongside children on mathematical problems, puzzles and games.

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?

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

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

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

Try this old game that is very useful for so many arithmetical relationships.
This article takes a closer look at some of the toys and games that can enhance a child's mathematical learning.

Read about how NRICH began and where we have come since then.
This article for teachers describes how number arrays can be a useful reprentation for many number concepts.

A game to make and play based on the number line.
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. . . .
Jenni Way describes her visit to a Japanese mathematics classroom.
In this article for teachers, Liz Woodham describes resources on NRICH that can help primary-aged children get to grips with negative numbers.
This article for teachers suggests teaching strategies and resources that can help to develop children's number sense.