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

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11 to 14

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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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Have you got it?

Age

11 to 14

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

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Beelines

Age

14 to 16

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Isosceles Triangles

Age

11 to 14

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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?

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Stars

Age

11 to 14

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

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Subtended angles

Age

11 to 14

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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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Right angles

Age

11 to 14

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

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Odds and Evens

Age

11 to 14

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Are these games fair? How can you tell?

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In the bag

Age

11 to 14

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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

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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

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

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At right angles

Age

14 to 16

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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

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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

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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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Finding factors

Age

14 to 16

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Can you find the hidden factors which multiply together to produce each quadratic expression?

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Estimating time

Age

11 to 14

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

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Robotic Rotations

Age

11 to 16

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How did the the rotation robot make these patterns?

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6 by 6 Mathdokus

Age

7 to 16

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Can you use the clues to complete these 6 by 6 Mathematical Sudokus?

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More Less is More

Age

7 to 14

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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

An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons

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5 by 5 Mathdokus

Age

7 to 16

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Can you use the clues to complete these 5 by 5 Mathematical Sudokus?

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4 by 4 Mathdokus

Age

7 to 14

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Can you use the clues to complete these 4 by 4 Mathematical Sudokus?

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Less is More

Age

7 to 11

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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

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

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Treasure Hunt

Age

7 to 14

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

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Your number is...

Age

7 to 14

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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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Remainders

Age

7 to 14

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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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Colour in the Square

Age

7 to 16

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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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Dozens

Age

7 to 14

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

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Number Sandwiches

Age

7 to 14

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

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4 Dom

Age

5 to 11

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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

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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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The Number Jumbler

Age

7 to 14

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

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Mixing Lemonade

Age

11 to 14

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Can you work out which drink has the stronger flavour?

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A little light thinking

Age

14 to 16

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Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you make two lights switch on at once? Three lights? All four lights?

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Shifting Times Tables

Age

11 to 14

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Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?

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Multiplication arithmagons

Age

14 to 16

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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

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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

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

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Square coordinates

Age

11 to 14

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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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Rhombus It

Age

11 to 16

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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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Square It

Age

11 to 16

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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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Factors and Multiples Game

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

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Countdown

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

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Triangles in circles

Age

11 to 14

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

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Semi-regular Tessellations

Age

11 to 16

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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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Estimating angles

How good are you at estimating angles?

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The Remainders Game

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

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Diamond Collector

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

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Last Biscuit

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

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Tilted Squares

Age

11 to 14

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It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?

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Cyclic Quadrilaterals

Age

11 to 16

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Draw some quadrilaterals on a 9-point circle and work out the angles. Is there a theorem?

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Charlie's delightful machine

Age

11 to 16

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Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?

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What numbers can we make now?

Age

11 to 14

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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

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

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Fruity Totals

Age

7 to 16

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

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Parallelogram It

Age

11 to 16

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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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