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Diagonal Dodge
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Can be played online. One player has 1 red counter, the other has 4 blue. The red counter needs to reach the other side, and the blue needs to trap the red.
Counters
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
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?
Sprouts
Age 7 to 18 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people. Take turns joining two dots, until your opponent is unable to move.
Endless Noughts and Crosses
Age 7 to 11 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.
Horizontal Vertical
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Take it in turns to place a domino on the grid. One to be placed horizontally and the other vertically. Can you make it impossible for your opponent to play?
Makeover
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Exchange the positions of the two sets of counters in the least possible number of moves
Circles, Circles
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here are some arrangements of circles. How many circles would I need to make the next size up for each? Can you create your own arrangement and investigate the number of circles it needs?
The Path of the Dice
Age 7 to 11 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.
Put Yourself in a Box
Age 7 to 11 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.
Tetrafit
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A tetromino is made up of four squares joined edge to edge. Can this tetromino, together with 15 copies of itself, be used to cover an eight by eight chessboard?
Tessellate the Triominoes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
What happens when you try and fit the triomino pieces into these two grids?
Red Even
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
You have 4 red and 5 blue counters. How many ways can they be placed on a 3 by 3 grid so that all the rows columns and diagonals have an even number of red counters?
Seeing Squares for Two
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Seeing Squares game for an adult and child. Can you come up with a way of always winning this game?
Domino Numbers
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you see why 2 by 2 could be 5? Can you predict what 2 by 10 will be?
Seeing Squares
Age 5 to 11 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.
One Big Triangle
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Make one big triangle so the numbers that touch on the small triangles add to 10.
Counter Roundup
Age 7 to 11 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.
Four Triangles Puzzle
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?
Clocking Off
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
I found these clocks in the Arts Centre at the University of Warwick intriguing - do they really need four clocks and what times would be ambiguous with only two or three of them?
Change Around
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Move just three of the circles so that the triangle faces in the opposite direction.
Coded Hundred Square
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?
Tricky Triangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Use the three triangles to fill these outline shapes. Perhaps you can create some of your own shapes for a friend to fill?
Hexpentas
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different ways can you find of fitting five hexagons together? How will you know you have found all the ways?
Penta Play
Age 7 to 11 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.
Twice as Big?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate how the four L-shapes fit together to make an enlarged L-shape. You could explore this idea with other shapes too.
Shadow Play
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Here are shadows of some 3D shapes. What shapes could have made them?
Right or Left?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Which of these dice are right-handed and which are left-handed?
World of Tan 17 - Weather
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the watering can and man in a boat?
Tangram Paradox
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How can the same pieces of the tangram make this bowl before and after it was chipped? Use the interactivity to try and work out what is going on!
Painted Faces
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Imagine a 3 by 3 by 3 cube made of 9 small cubes. Each face of the large cube is painted a different colour. How many small cubes will have two painted faces? Where are they?
Paw Prints
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A dog is looking for a good place to bury his bone. Can you work out where he started and ended in each case? What possible routes could he have taken?
Pattern Power
Age 5 to 14
Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and create.
World of Tan 19 - Working Men
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of this shape. How would you describe it?
World of Tan 20 - Fractions
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the chairs?
World of Tan 21 - Almost There Now
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of the lobster, yacht and cyclist?
World of Tan 22 - an Appealing Stroll
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the child walking home from school?
Skeleton Shapes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many balls of modelling clay and how many straws does it take to make these skeleton shapes?
World of Tan 24 - Clocks
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these clocks?
Cubes Within Cubes
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
We start with one yellow cube and build around it to make a 3x3x3 cube with red cubes. Then we build around that red cube with blue cubes and so on. How many cubes of each colour have we used?
World of Tan 25 - Pentominoes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of these people?
Counting Cards
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A magician took a suit of thirteen cards and held them in his hand face down. Every card he revealed had the same value as the one he had just finished spelling. How did this work?
Hundred Square
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
A hundred square has been printed on both sides of a piece of paper. What is on the back of 100? 58? 23? 19?
World of Tan 18 - Soup
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outlines of Mai Ling and Chi Wing?
World of Tan 5 - Rocket
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you fit the tangram pieces into the outline of the rocket?
Paper Patchwork 2
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Have a go at making a few of these shapes from paper in different sizes. What patterns can you create?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.