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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?
These hands-on activities are ideal for students aged 14-16 to explore in maths clubs.
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?
A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?
Can you visualise whether these nets fold up into 3D shapes? Watch the videos each time to see if you were correct.
In this interactivity each fruit has a hidden value. Can you deduce what each one is worth?
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.
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.
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.
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?
Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 × 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
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...
Using the 8 dominoes, can you make a square where each of the columns and rows adds up to 8?
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
Take a look at the video showing areas of different shapes on dotty grids...
There are lots of different methods to find out what the shapes are worth - how many can you find?
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.
Take ten sticks in heaps any way you like. Make a new heap using one from each of the heaps. By repeating that process could the arrangement 7 - 1 - 1 - 1 ever turn up, except by starting with it?
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?
How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?
Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie tries to find three that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?
If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable.
The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.