KS3 Maths Club Activities

These hands-on activities are ideal for students aged 11-14 to use in maths clubs and whole-school maths events.

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Two Stones

Age

5 to 18

This game is known as Pong hau k'i in China and Ou-moul-ko-no in Korea. Why not challenge a friend to play it with you?
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Twinkle Twinkle

Age

7 to 14

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.
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Dicey Operations

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

In these addition and subtraction games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the 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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Matching Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Can you match pairs of fractions, decimals and percentages, and beat your previous scores?
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Got It

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

A game for two people, or play online. Given a target number, say 23, and a range of numbers to choose from, say 1-4, players take it in turns to add to the running total to hit their target.
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Treasure Hunt

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the treasure in the minimum number of guesses?
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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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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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Fifteen

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
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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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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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Three Neighbours

Age

7 to 14

Challenge level

Take three consecutive numbers and add them together. What do you notice?
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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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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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Air Nets

Age

7 to 18

Challenge level

Can you visualise whether these nets fold up into 3D shapes? Watch the videos each time to see if you were correct.
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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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Xavi's T-shirt

Age

7 to 16

Challenge level

How much can you read into a T-shirt?
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Dominoes

Age

7 to 16

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.
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Pentanim

Age

7 to 16

Challenge level

A game for 2 players with similarities to NIM. Place one counter on each spot on the games board. Players take it is turns to remove 1 or 2 adjacent counters. The winner picks up the last counter.
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Low Go

Age

7 to 16

Challenge level

A game for 2 players. Take turns to place a counter so that it occupies one of the lowest possible positions in the grid. The first player to complete a line of 4 wins.
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Prime Magic

Age

7 to 16

Challenge level

Place the numbers 1, 2, 3,..., 9 one on each square of a 3 by 3 grid so that all the rows and columns add up to a prime number. How many different solutions can you find?
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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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Domino Magic Rectangle

Age

7 to 16

Challenge level

An ordinary set of dominoes can be laid out as a 7 by 4 magic rectangle in which all the spots in all the columns add to 24, while those in the rows add to 42. Try it! Now try the magic square...