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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.
Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
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.
You'll need two dice to play this game against a partner. Will Incey Wincey make it to the top of the drain pipe or the bottom of the drain pipe first?
Factor track is not a race but a game of skill. The idea is to go round the track in as few moves as possible, keeping to the rules.
Can you put these times on the clocks in order? You might like to arrange them in a circle.
This 100 square jigsaw is written in code. It starts with 1 and ends with 100. Can you build it up?
You have a set of the digits from 0 to 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?
Add or subtract the two numbers on the spinners and try to complete a row of three. Are there some numbers that are good to aim for?
These eleven shapes each stand for a different number. Can you use the number sentences to work out what they are?
A resource to try once children are familiar with number lines, and they have begun to use them for addition. It could be a good way to talk about subtraction. Leah and Tom each have a number line. Can you work out where their counters will land?
A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.
Yasmin and Zach have some bears to share. Which numbers of bears can they share so that there are none left over?
Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?
Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Can you pick any ten numbers from the bags so that their total is 37?
I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?
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.
Can you match pairs of fractions, decimals and percentages, and beat your previous scores?
Can you work out how to win this game of Nim? Does it matter if you go first or second?
Here are four cubes joined together. How many other arrangements of four cubes can you find? Can you draw them on dotty paper?
Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
Kimie and Sebastian were making sticks from interlocking cubes and lining them up. Can they make their lines the same length? Can they make any other lines?
Can you find two butterflies to go on each flower so that the numbers on each pair of butterflies adds to the number on their flower?
Can you work out the domino pieces which would go in the middle in each case to complete the pattern of these eight sets of three dominoes?
In this town, houses are built with one room for each person. There are some families of seven people living in the town. In how many different ways can they build their houses?
Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.
Start with three pairs of socks. Now mix them up so that no mismatched pair is the same as another mismatched pair. Is there more than one way to do it?
Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party. He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit and different decorations on other biscuits. How many biscuits weren't decorated?
Find all the numbers that can be made by adding the dots on two dice.
Use the 'double-3 down' dominoes to make a square so that each side has eight dots.
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?
Roll two red dice and a green dice. Add the two numbers on the red dice and take away the number on the green. What are all the different possible answers?
Jack has nine tiles. He put them together to make a square so that two tiles of the same colour were not beside each other. Can you find another way to do it?
Arrange 3 red, 3 blue and 3 yellow counters into a three-by-three square grid, so that there is only one of each colour in every row and every column
These are the faces of Will, Lil, Bill, Phil and Jill. Use the clues to work out which name goes with each face.
Place six toy ladybirds into the box so that there are two ladybirds in every column and every row.
Take three differently coloured blocks - maybe red, yellow and blue. Make a tower using one of each colour. How many different towers can you make?
There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?
Penta people, the Pentominoes, always build their houses from five square rooms. I wonder how many different Penta homes you can create?
How could you put eight beanbags in the hoops so that there are four in the blue hoop, five in the red and six in the yellow? Can you find all the ways of doing this?
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.
Can you make five differently sized squares from the interactive tangram pieces?