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Olympic Cards
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Design your own scoring system and play Trumps with these Olympic Sport cards.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Using Games in the Classroom
Age 7 to 16
Gillian Hatch analyses what goes on when mathematical games are used as a pedagogic device.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Twinkle Twinkle
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people. Take turns placing a counter on the star. You win when you have completed a line of 3 in your colour.
Latin Lilies
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Have a go at this game which has been inspired by the Big Internet Math-Off 2019. Can you gain more columns of lily pads than your opponent?
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.
Making Maths: Birds from an Egg
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?
Spiralling Decimals for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Spiralling Decimals game for an adult and child. Can you get three decimals next to each other on the spiral before your partner?
Fifteen
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you spot the similarities between this game and other games you know? The aim is to choose 3 numbers that total 15.
Sliding Game
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A shunting puzzle for 1 person. Swop the positions of the counters at the top and bottom of the board.
Board Block
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?
Train Tactics
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A train building game for two players. Can you be the one to complete the train?
Making Maths: Snake Pits
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game to make and play based on the number line.
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.
Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 4. from Strategy Games
Age 5 to 14
Basic strategy games are particularly suitable as starting points for investigations. Players instinctively try to discover a winning strategy, and usually the best way to do this is to analyse. . . .
Tac-tickle
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
This is a challenging game of strategy for two players with many interesting variations.
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.
Winning Lines
Age 7 to 16
An article for teachers and pupils that encourages you to look at the mathematical properties of similar games.
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.
Dicey Operations in Line
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
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?
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.
Strike it Out for Two
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Strike it Out game for an adult and child. Can you stop your partner from being able to go?
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.
Nim-7 for Two
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
Nim-7 game for an adult and child. Who will be the one to take the last counter?
Board Block for Two
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Board Block game for two. Can you stop your partner from being able to make a shape on the board?
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?
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?
Train Tactics for Two
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Train game for an adult and child. Who will be the first to make the train?
Factors and Multiples Game for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Factors and Multiples game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you win this game?
Got it for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Got It game for an adult and child. How can you play so that you know you will always win?
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?
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.
Tangram Pictures
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
Use the tangram pieces to make our pictures, or to design some of your own!
More Upper Primary Strategy Games
Age 7 to 11
Here are some more upper primary strategy games for you to play.
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?
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.
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.
Games Related to Nim
Age 5 to 16
This article for teachers describes several games, found on the site, all of which have a related structure that can be used to develop the skills of strategic planning.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.