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Tricky Track
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this game you throw two dice and find their total, then move the appropriate counter to the right. Which counter reaches the purple box first?
Snail Trails
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
This is a game for two players. You will need some small-square grid paper, a die and two felt-tip pens or highlighters. Players take turns to roll the die, then move that number of squares in. . . .
Stop or Dare
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
All you need for this game is a pack of cards. While you play the game, think about strategies that will increase your chances of winning.
First Connect Three
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
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?
The Twelve Pointed Star Game
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Have a go at this game which involves throwing two dice and adding their totals. Where should you place your counters to be more likely to win?
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.
Patience
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A simple game of patience which often comes out. Can you explain why?
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.
Game of PIG - Sixes
Age 7 to 18 Challenge Level:
Can you beat Piggy in this simple dice game? Can you figure out Piggy's strategy, and is there a better one?
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?
Squayles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 players. Given an arrangement of matchsticks, players take it is turns to remove a matchstick, along with all of the matchsticks that touch it.
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.
Using Games in the Classroom
Age 7 to 16
Gillian Hatch analyses what goes on when mathematical games are used as a pedagogic device.
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.
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.
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.
Got a Strategy for Last Biscuit?
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
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.
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.
Coordinate Cunning
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for two people that can be played with pencils and paper. Combine your knowledge of coordinates with some strategic thinking.
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?
Wallpaper Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
A Sudoku that uses transformations as supporting clues.
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.
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.
More Upper Primary Strategy Games
Age 7 to 11
Here are some more upper primary strategy games for you to play.
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.
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.
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.
Train Tactics
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A train building game for two players. Can you be the one to complete the train?
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.
Seasonal Twin Sudokus
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
This pair of linked Sudokus matches letters with numbers and hides a seasonal greeting. Can you find it?
Twin Corresponding Sudokus II
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Two sudokus in one. Challenge yourself to make the necessary connections.
Quadruple Clue Sudoku
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Four numbers on an intersection that need to be placed in the surrounding cells. That is all you need to know to solve this sudoku.
Making Maths: Birds from an Egg
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you make the birds from the egg tangram?
Tac-tickle
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
This is a challenging game of strategy for two players with many interesting variations.
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.
Twin Corresponding Sudoku III
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Two sudokus in one. Challenge yourself to make the necessary connections.
Mulinello Quadrupio
Age 5 to 18
A game from Italy. Play with a friend and see if you can be the first to get five pieces in a line.
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.
Two Stones
Age 5 to 18
This game is known as Pong hau k'i in China and Ou-moul-ko-no in Korea. Find a friend to play or try the interactive version online.
Winning Lines
Age 7 to 16
An article for teachers and pupils that encourages you to look at the mathematical properties of similar games.
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.
Traffic Lights
Age 7 to 11 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. . . .
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.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.