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NRICH Maths Club Activities

Puzzling with Paper
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Puzzling with Paper

Age
5 to 11
These tasks offer opportunities for deepening learners' mathematical understanding and their positive learning dispositions.
Counters
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Counters

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be removed. Click to remove them. The winner is the last one to remove a counter. How you can make sure you win?
Endless Noughts and Crosses
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Endless Noughts and Crosses

An extension of noughts and crosses in which the grid is enlarged and the length of the winning line can to altered to 3, 4 or 5.
Drips
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Drips

An animation that helps you understand the game of Nim.
Low Go
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Low Go

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.
Slippery Snail
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Slippery Snail

Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
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A game for two people, who take turns to move the counters. The player to remove the last counter from the board wins.
Pentanim
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Pentanim

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.
Magic Vs
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Magic Vs

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?
Got It
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Favourite

Got It

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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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.