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Fractions and coins game
7 to 11
Calculate the fractional amounts of money to match pairs of cards with the same value.
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Game of PIG - sixes
7 to 18
Can you beat Piggy in this simple dice game? Can you figure out Piggy's strategy, and is there a better one?
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Games related to Nim
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.
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Learning mathematics through games: 3. Creating your own games
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.
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The thousands game
7 to 11
Each child in Class 3 took four numbers out of the bag. Who had made the highest even number?
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Icosian game
11 to 14
This problem is about investigating whether it is possible to start at one vertex of a platonic solid and visit every other vertex once only returning to the vertex you started at.
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The mean game
Edward Wallace based his A Level Statistics Project on The Mean
Game. Each picks 2 numbers. The winner is the player who picks a
number closest to the mean of all the numbers picked.