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Secondary interactive resources

On this page you can find interactive environments, games and problems for Secondary learners.

Interactive environments

These general interactive environments can be used to support learners' work on a variety of activities.

  • Cuisenaire environment
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    Cuisenaire environment

    Age
    5 to 16
    Challenge level
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    An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.

  • Dominoes Environment
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    Dominoes environment

    Age
    5 to 16
    Challenge level
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    These interactive dominoes can be dragged around the screen.

  • Virtual Geoboard
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    Virtual geoboard

    Age
    7 to 16

    This virtual geoboard allows you to create shapes by stretching rubber bands between pegs on the board.

  • Tessellation interactivity
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    Tessellation interactivity

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
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    An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons

Interactive activities

These problems and games all have interactive content, making them ideal for students to tackle on tablets or laptops.

  • Estimating angles
    game
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    Estimating angles

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How good are you at estimating angles?

  • The Remainders Game
    game
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    The remainders game

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.

  • Countdown
    game
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    Countdown

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.

  • Dozens
    problem

    Dozens

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you select the missing digit(s) to find the largest multiple?

  • Got It
    problem

    Got it

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    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.

  • Your number is...
    problem

    Your number is...

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Think of a number and follow the machine's instructions... I know what your number is! Can you explain how I know?

  • Treasure Hunt
    problem

    Treasure hunt

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you find a reliable strategy for choosing coordinates that will locate the treasure in the minimum number of guesses?

  • missing multipliers
    problem

    Missing multipliers

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    What is the smallest number of answers you need to reveal in order to work out the missing headers?

  • The Number Jumbler
    problem

    The Number Jumbler

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    The Number Jumbler can always work out your chosen symbol. Can you work out how?

  • 4 by 4 Mathdokus
    problem

    4 by 4 Mathdokus

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you use the clues to complete these 4 by 4 Mathematical Sudokus?

  • More Less is More
    problem

    More less is more

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    In each of these games, you will need a little bit of luck and your knowledge of place value to develop a winning strategy.

  • problem

    Factor lines

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.

  • A chopped carrot beside a whole carrot. The carrot top sits away from the chopped carrot.
    problem

    Remainders

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?

  • Number Lines in Disguise
    problem

    Number lines in disguise

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Some of the numbers have fallen off Becky's number line. Can you figure out what they were?

  • Factors and Multiples Game
    game
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    Factors and multiples game

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
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    A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?

  • Fruity Totals
    problem

    Fruity totals

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
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    In this interactivity each fruit has a hidden value. Can you deduce what each one is worth?

  • 5 by 5 Mathdokus
    problem

    5 by 5 Mathdokus

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you use the clues to complete these 5 by 5 Mathematical Sudokus?

  • Xavi's T-shirt
    problem

    Xavi's T-shirt

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
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    How much can you read into a T-shirt?

  • A green frog.
    problem

    Frogs

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?

  • Number Pyramids
    problem

    Number pyramids

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Try entering different sets of numbers in the number pyramids. How does the total at the top change?

  • Tilted Squares
    problem

    Tilted squares

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?

  • Isosceles Triangles
    problem

    Isosceles triangles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9$cm$^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?

  • Partitioning revisited
    problem

    Partitioning revisited

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    We can show that (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1 by considering the area of an (x + 1) by (x + 1) square. Show in a similar way that (x + 2)² = x² + 4x + 4

  • Triangles in circles
    problem

    Triangles in circles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you find triangles on a 9-point circle? Can you work out their angles?

  • Flippin' discs
    problem

    Flippin' discs

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Discs are flipped in the air. You win if all the faces show the same colour. What is the probability of winning?

  • Odds and Evens
    problem

    Odds and evens

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Are these games fair? How can you tell?

  • How far does it move?
    problem

    How far does it move?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects the distance it travels at each stage.

  • Substitution Cipher
    problem

    Substitution cipher

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.

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    In the bag

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you guess the colours of the 10 marbles in the bag? Can you develop an effective strategy for reaching 1000 points in the least number of rounds?

  • Interactive Spinners
    problem

    Interactive spinners

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.

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    Reaction timer

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.

  • Shifting Times Tables
    problem

    Shifting times tables

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?

  • Mixing Lemonade
    problem

    Mixing lemonade

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you work out which drink has the stronger flavour?

  • Your number was...
    problem

    Your number was...

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Think of a number and follow my instructions. Tell me your answer, and I'll tell you what you started with! Can you explain how I know?

  • Rolling Around
    problem

    Rolling around

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    A circle rolls around the outside edge of a square so that its circumference always touches the edge of the square. Can you describe the locus of the centre of the circle?

  • More Number Pyramids
    problem

    More number pyramids

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...

  • Square coordinates
    problem

    Square coordinates

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    A tilted square is a square with no horizontal sides. Can you devise a general instruction for the construction of a square when you are given just one of its sides?