Secondary Interactive Resources

These general interactive resources can be used to support students' work on a variety of tasks.

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Interactive spinners

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.

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Dice and spinners interactive

Simple dice and spinners tool for experiments.

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Geoboards

Geogebra square, circular and rectangular geoboards.

Games and Activities

These tasks for classroom use include a game or interactive content and are ideal for lessons with tablets, laptops, or in a computer room.

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Beelines

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

Is there a relationship between the coordinates of the endpoints of a line and the number of grid squares it crosses?

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Nine colours

Age

11 to 16

Challenge level

Can you use small coloured cubes to make a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that each face of the bigger cube contains one of each colour?

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Frogs

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?

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Napoleon's theorem

Age

14 to 18

Challenge level

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?

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Anti-magic square

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

You may have met Magic Squares, now meet an Anti-Magic Square. Its properties are slightly different - can you still solve it?

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Stars

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?

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Odds and evens

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Are these games fair? How can you tell?

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In the bag

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Can you guess the colours of the 10 marbles in the bag? Can you develop an effective strategy for reaching 1000 points in the least number of rounds?

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Reaction timer

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.

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Which spinners?

Age

14 to 18

Challenge level

Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?

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At right angles

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

Can you decide whether two lines are perpendicular or not? Can you do this without drawing them?

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L-triominoes

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

L triominoes can fit together to make larger versions of themselves. Is every size possible to make in this way?

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Your number was...

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Think of a number and follow my instructions. Tell me your answer, and I'll tell you what you started with! Can you explain how I know?

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Estimating time

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

How well can you estimate 10 seconds? Investigate with our timing tool.

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More less is more

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

In each of these games, you will need a little bit of luck, and your knowledge of place value to develop a winning strategy.

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Tessellation interactivity

Age

7 to 16

Challenge level

An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons

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Less is more

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?

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Number lines in disguise

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?

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Your number is...

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Think of a number and follow the machine's instructions... I know what your number is! Can you explain how I know?

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Colour in the square

Age

7 to 16

Challenge level

Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?

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4 dom

Age

5 to 11

Challenge level

Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.

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Tea cups

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Place the 16 different combinations of cup/saucer in this 4 by 4 arrangement so that no row or column contains more than one cup or saucer of the same colour.

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Mixing lemonade

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Can you work out which drink has the stronger flavour?

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Multiplication arithmagons

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges of these multiplication arithmagons?

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Arithmagons

Age

11 to 16

Challenge level

Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges?

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More number pyramids

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...

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Favourite

Countdown

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.

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Triangles in circles

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Can you find triangles on a 9-point circle? Can you work out their angles?

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Favourite

The remainders game

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.

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Favourite

Diamond collector

Age

11 to 16

Challenge level

Collect as many diamonds as you can by drawing three straight lines.

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Last biscuit

Age

11 to 18

Challenge level

Can you find a strategy that ensures you get to take the last biscuit in this game?

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What numbers can we make now?

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?

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Number pyramids

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?

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Remainders

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?

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Square coordinates

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

A tilted square is a square with no horizontal sides. Can you devise a general instruction for the construction of a square when you are given just one of its sides?

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Square it

Age

11 to 16

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.

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Parallelogram it

Age

11 to 16

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 parallelogram.

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Rhombus it

Age

11 to 16

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 rhombus.

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Semi-regular tessellations

Age

11 to 16

Challenge level

Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?

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Right angles

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?

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Subtended angles

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

What is the relationship between the angle at the centre and the angles at the circumference, for angles which stand on the same arc? Can you prove it?

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Number sandwiches

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Can you arrange the digits 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 and 3 to make a Number Sandwich?

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The Number Jumbler

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

The Number Jumbler can always work out your chosen symbol. Can you work out how?

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Fruity totals

Age

7 to 16

Challenge level

In this interactivity each fruit has a hidden value. Can you deduce what each one is worth?

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Have you got it?

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?

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Dozens

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Can you select the missing digit(s) to find the largest multiple?

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Favourite

Factors and multiples game

Age

7 to 16

Challenge level

A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?

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Isosceles triangles

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?