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Broad Topics > Thinking Mathematically > Games
Gotcha
Age 7 to 11 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.
Board Block Challenge for Two
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Board Block Challenge game for an adult and child. Can you prevent your partner from being able to make a shape?
How Long Does it Take?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How long does it take to brush your teeth? Can you find the matching length of time?
Matching Time
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Try this matching game which will help you recognise different ways of saying the same time interval.
First Connect Three for Two
Age 7 to 11 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.
Primary Advent Calendar 2010
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Advent Calendar 2010 - a mathematical game for every day during the run-up to Christmas.
More Upper Primary Strategy Games
Age 7 to 11
Here are some more upper primary strategy games for you to play.
Daisy
Age 7 to 11 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.
Incey Wincey Spider for Two
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Incey Wincey Spider game for an adult and child. Will Incey get to the top of the drainpipe?
Games from Around the World
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here are a collection of games from around the world to try during the holidays or the last few weeks of term.
Jumping Reindeer
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 person to develop stategy and shape and space awareness. 12 counters are placed on a board. Counters are removed one at a time. The aim is to be left with only 1 counter.
Totality for Two
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Totality game for an adult and child. Be the first to reach your agreed total.
Incey Wincey Spider
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
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?
Developing Logical Thinking: the Place of Strategy Games
Age 5 to 11
This article outlines how strategy games can help children develop logical thinking, using examples from the NRICH website.
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?
Welcoming Your New Class
Age 3 to 11
What might your first lesson with a new class look like? In this article, Cherri Moseley makes some suggestions for primary teachers.
Going for Games
Age 5 to 11
In this article for teachers, Liz Woodham describes the criteria she uses to choose mathematical games for the classroom and shares some examples from NRICH.
Roundabout
Age 7 to 11 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.
Making Maths: Happy Families
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Here is a version of the game 'Happy Families' for you to make and play.
Tac-tickle
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
This is a challenging game of strategy for two players with many interesting variations.
Dicey Operations in Line
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
Dicey Perimeter, Dicey Area
Age 7 to 11 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?
Play to 37
Age 7 to 11 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.
Low Go
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
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.
Asteroid Blast
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people. Use your skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to blast the asteroids.
Chocolate Bars
Age 7 to 11 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.
Fractions and Coins Game
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Calculate the fractional amounts of money to match pairs of cards with the same value.
Scissors, Paper, Rock
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Play this well-known game against the computer where each player is equally likely to choose scissors, paper or rock. Why not try the variations too?
Line of Four
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
A game somewhat similar to 'noughts and crosses' on a much larger space.
Spiralling Decimals
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Take turns to place a decimal number on the spiral. Can you get three consecutive numbers?
Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 2.types of Games
Age 5 to 14
This article, the second in the series, looks at some different types of games and the sort of mathematical thinking they can develop.
Diagonal Sums Sudoku
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Solve this Sudoku puzzle whose clues are in the form of sums of the numbers which should appear in diagonal opposite cells.
Learning Mathematics Through Games: 3. Creating Your Own Games
Age 5 to 7
Not all of us a bursting with creative game ideas, but there are several ways to go about creating a game that will assist even the busiest and most reluctant game designer.
18 Hole Light Golf
Age 5 to 16 Challenge Level:
The computer starts with all the lights off, but then clicks 3, 4 or 5 times at random, leaving some lights on. Can you switch them off again?
Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 1. Why Games?
Age 5 to 14
This article supplies teachers with information that may be useful in better understanding the nature of games and their role in teaching and learning mathematics.
Double or Halve?
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Throw the dice and decide whether to double or halve the number. Will you be the first to reach the target?
Less Is More
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?
Tug Harder!
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this game, you can add, subtract, multiply or divide the numbers on the dice. Which will you do so that you get to the end of the number line first?
Online
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players that can be played online. Players take it in turns to select a word from the 9 words given. The aim is to select all the occurrences of the same letter.
Strike it Out
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use your addition and subtraction skills, combined with some strategic thinking, to beat your partner at this game.
Countdown
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
100 Percent
Age 7 to 11 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. . . .
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.