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Games. Practical Activity. Working systematically. Odd and even numbers. Generalising. Multiplication & division. Interactivities. Compound transformations. Visualising. Addition & subtraction.There are 150 results
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Part the Piles
Stage: 2 Challenge Level: 
Try to stop your opponent from being able to split the piles of counters into unequal numbers. Can you find a strategy?
Building Stars
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
An interactive activity for one to experiment with a tricky tessellation
Noughts and Crosses
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people that everybody knows. You can play with a friend or online. If you play correctly you never lose!
Coordinate Cunning
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people that can be played on line or with pens and paper. Combine your knowledege of coordinates with your skills of strategic thinking.
Chocolate Bars
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
An interactive game to be played on your own or with friends. Imagine you are having a party. Each person takes it in turns to stand behind the chair where they will get the most chocolate.
The Path of the Dice
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 person. Can you work out how the dice must be rolled from the start position to the finish? Play on line.
100 Percent
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
An interactive game for 1 person. You are given a rectangle with 50 squares on it. Roll the dice to get a percentage between 2 and 100. How many squares is this? Keep going until you get 100. . . .
Put Yourself in a Box
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Given a board of dots in a grid pattern, players take turns drawing a line by connecting 2 adjacent dots. Your goal is to complete more squares than your opponent.
Board Block Challenge
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
Makeover
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Exchange the positions of the two sets of counters in the least possible number of moves
Calculator Bingo
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game to be played against the computer, or in groups. Pick a 7-digit number. A random digit is generated. What must you subract to remove the digit from your number? the first to zero wins.
Counter Roundup
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 or 2 people. Use the interactive version, or play with friends. Try to round up as many counters as possible.
Play to 37
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In this game for two players, the idea is to take it in turns to choose 1, 3, 5 or 7. The winner is the first to make the total 37.
Train for Two
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Train game for an adult and child. Who will be the first to make the train?
Seeing Squares for Two
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Seeing Squares game for an adult and child. Can you come up with a way of always winning this game?
Board Block for Two
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Board Block game for two. Can you stop your partner from being able to make a shape on the board?
Strike it Out
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.
Making Maths: Birds from an Egg
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?
Conway's Chequerboard Army
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Here is a solitaire type environment for you to experiment with. Which targets can you reach?
Fractions and Coins Game
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Work out the fractions to match the cards with the same amount of money.
Sliding Game
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A shunting puzzle for 1 person. Swop the positions of the counters at the top and bottom of the board.
Seeing Squares
Stage: 1 and 2 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.
Counters
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be removed. Click to remover them. The winner is the last one to remove a counter. How you can make sure you win?
Endless Noughts and Crosses
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
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.
Got it for Two
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Got It game for an adult and child. How can you play so that you know you will always win?
Making Maths: Snake Pits
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
A game to make and play based on the number line.
Primary Advent Calendar 2010
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Advent Calendar 2010 - a mathematical game for every day during the run-up to Christmas.
Gotcha
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. This could be played outside with people instead of counters. Try to trap or escape from your opponent.
Factors and Multiples Game for Two
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
Factors and Multiples game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you win this game?
Daisy
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Draw a daisy with at least 5 petals. Shade 1 or 2 petals next to each other. The winner shades the last petal.
First Connect Three
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
The idea of this game is to add or subtract the two numbers on the dice and cover the result on the grid, trying to get a line of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
First Connect Three for Two
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
First Connect Three game for an adult and child. Use the dice numbers and either addition or subtraction to get three numbers in a straight line.
Tac-tickle
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
This is a challenging game of strategy for two players with many interesting variations.
Traffic Lights
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
The game uses a 3x3 square board. 2 players take turns to play, either placing a red on an empty square, or changing a red to orange, or orange to green. The player who forms 3 of 1 colour in a line. . . .
Roundabout
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This is a game for 2 players. Each player has 4 counters each, and wins by blocking their opponent's counters. A good follow-on from two stones.
Dicey Perimeter, Dicey Area
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In this game for two players, you throw two dice and find the product. How many shapes can you draw on the grid which have that area or perimeter?
How Long Does it Take?
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
In this matching game, you have to decide how long different events take.
Down to Nothing
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 or more people. Starting with 100, subratct a number from 1 to 9 from the total. You score for making an odd number, a number ending in 0 or a multiple of 6.
Tangram Pictures
Stage: 1, 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Use the tangram pieces to make our pictures, or to design some of your own!
Penta Play
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A shape and space game for 2,3 or 4 players. Be the last person to be able to place a pentomino piece on the playing board. Play with card, or on the computer.
Odds and Threes
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people using a pack of cards Turn over 2 cards and try to make an odd number or a multiple of 3.
Four Go
Stage: 2 Challenge Level:
This challenge is a game for two players. Choose two numbers from the grid and multiply or divide, then mark your answer on the number line. Can you get four in a row before your partner?
Olympic Cards
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Design your own scoring system and play Trumps with these Olympic Sport cards.
Games from Around the World
Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:
Here are a collection of games from around the world to try during the holidays or the last few weeks of term.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.