42 problems, 86 games, 52 articles, 38 general resources, 1 package, 64 from Stage 1, 77 from Stage 2, 83 from Stage 3, 66 from Stage 4, 26 from Stage 5
Coin Tossing Games
Stage: 4 Challenge Level: 
You and I play a game involving successive throws of a fair coin. Suppose I pick HH and you pick TH. The coin is thrown repeatedly until we see either two heads in a row (I win) or a tail followed by. . . .
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.
Ratio Pairs 3
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Match pairs of cards so that they have equivalent ratios.
Stats Statements
Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Are these statistical statements sometimes, always or never true? Or it is impossible to say?
Traffic Lights
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
The game uses a 3x3 square board. 2 players take turns to play, either placing a red on an empty square, or changing a red to orange, or orange to green. The player who forms 3 of 1 colour in a line. . . .
Nice and Nasty
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
Game of PIG - Sixes
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Players all start with zero points, they take turns to throw the dice as many times as they like, adding the total at each throw to their cumulative total.
Transferable Games
Stage: Challenge Level:
Items that are licensable to other publishers on agreement with the University of Cambridge.
Making Maths: Birds from an Egg
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?
Factors and Multiples Resources
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
A collection of interactive resources to support work on Factors and Multiples
Fractions and Coins Game
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Work out the fractions to match the cards with the same amount of money.
World of Tan - Concentrating on Coordinates
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of Little Ming playing the board game?
Talking about Maths - 1
Stage: 2, 3, 4 and 5
The first of two articles for teachers explaining how to include talk in maths presentations.
Dice and Spinner Numbers
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
If you had any number of ordinary dice, what are the possible ways of making their totals 6? What would the product of the dice be each time?
Dominoes
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Everthing you have always wanted to do with dominoes! Some of these games are good for practising your mental calculation skills, and some are good for your reasoning skills.
Nim
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
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 loser is the player who takes the last counter.
World of Tan - Logical Thinking
Stage: Challenge Level:
Can you logically construct these silhouettes using the tangram pieces?
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.
One, Three, Five, Seven
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Set out 16 counters in rows of 1,3,5 and 7. Players take turns to remove any number of counters from a row. The player left with the last counter looses.
Hockey
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
After some matches were played, most of the information in the table containing the results of the games was accidentally deleted. What was the score in each match played?
Squayles
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Given an arrangement of matchsticks, players take it is turns to remove a matchstick, along with all of the matchsticks that touch it.
Counters
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be removed. Click to remover them. The winner is the last one to remove a counter. How you can make sure you win?
The Mean Game
Stage: 5
Edward Wallace based his A Level Statistics Project on The Mean Game. Each picks 2 numbers. The winner is the player who picks a number closest to the mean of all the numbers picked.
Achi
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This game for two players is played in Ghana, but stones that were marked for this game in the third century AD have been found near Hadrian's Wall in Northern England.
Shunting Puzzle
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A shunting puzzle for 1 person. Swop the positions of the counters at the top and bottom of the board.
Using Games in the Classroom
Stage: 2, 3 and 4
Gillian Hatch analyses what goes on when mathematical games are used as a pedagogic device.
Turnablock
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
A simple game for 2 players invented by John Conway. It is played on a 3x3 square board with 9 counters that are black on one side and white on the other.
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!
Round-robin Scheduling
Stage: 4 and 5
Scheduling games is a little more challenging than one might desire. Here are some tournament formats that sport schedulers use.
Roundabout
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This is a game for 2 players. Each player has 4 counters each, and wins by blocking their opponent's counters. A good follow-on from two stones.
Got a Strategy for Last Biscuit?
Stage: 3, 4 and 5 Challenge Level:
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
Sprouts
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people. Take turns joining two dots, until your opponent is unable to move.
Tricky Track
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In this game you throw two dice and find their total, then move the appropriate counter to the right. Which counter reaches the purple box first? Is this what you would expect?
Twinkle Twinkle
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people. Take turns placing a counter on the star. You win when you have completed a line of 3 in your colour.
Jam
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
This is a Dutch game for two players. It will test your powers of shape and space visualisation
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