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Odds or Sixes?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity or play this dice game yourself. How could you make it fair?
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.
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?
Winning the Lottery
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Try out the lottery that is played in a far-away land. What is the chance of winning?
Carroll Diagrams
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?
Building Stars
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An interactive activity for one to experiment with a tricky tessellation
Rabbit Run
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Ahmed has some wooden planks to use for three sides of a rabbit run against the shed. What quadrilaterals would he be able to make with the planks of different lengths?
Fractions and Coins Game
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Work out the fractions to match the cards with the same amount of money.
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. . . .
Noughts and Crosses
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 2 people that everybody knows. You can play with a friend or online. If you play correctly you never lose!
Part the Piles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Try to stop your opponent from being able to split the piles of counters into unequal numbers. Can you find a strategy?
Calculator Bingo
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game to be played against the computer, or in groups. Pick a 7-digit number. A random digit is generated. What must you subract to remove the digit from your number? the first to zero wins.
Multiplication Tables - Matching Cards
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Interactive game. Set your own level of challenge, practise your table skills and beat your previous best score.
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.
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.
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.
Train Tactics
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A train building game for two players. Can you be the one to complete the train?
Coordinate Tan
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What are the coordinates of the coloured dots that mark out the tangram? Try changing the position of the origin. What happens to the coordinates now?
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.
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.
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 for Two
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Train game for an adult and child. Who will be the first to make the train?
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.
Rod Ratios
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the Cuisenaire rods environment to investigate ratio. Can you find pairs of rods in the ratio 3:2?
Spot Thirteen
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Choose 13 spots on the grid. Can you work out the scoring system? What is the maximum possible score?
Flip Flop - Matching Cards
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for 1 person to play on screen. Practise your number bonds whilst improving your memory
Countdown
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
Board Block Challenge
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
Teddy Town
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
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?
Triangle Pin-down
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.
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?
Do You Measure Up?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
A game for two or more players that uses a knowledge of measuring tools. Spin the spinner and identify which jobs can be done with the measuring tool shown.
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?
Excel Interactive Resource: Interactive Division
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Use an Excel to investigate division. Explore the relationships between the process elements using an interactive spreadsheet.
Number Pyramids
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?
Got It
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
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.
Difference
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Place the numbers 1 to 10 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.
Times Tables Shifts
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In this activity, the computer chooses a times table and shifts it. Can you work out the table and the shift each time?
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.
Have You Got It?
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?
Junior Frogs
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Have a go at this well-known challenge. Can you swap the frogs and toads in as few slides and jumps as possible?
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?
Dominoes Environment
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
These interactive dominoes can be dragged around the screen.
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?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.