List

Secondary interactive resources

These general interactive resources can be used to support students' work on a variety of tasks.
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.

Geoboards
interactivity

Geoboards

Age
7 to 16

Geogebra square, circular and rectangular geoboards.

Games and Activities

These tasks for classroom use include a game or interactive content and are ideal for lessons with tablets, laptops, or in a computer room.

Napoleon's Theorem
problem

Napoleon's theorem

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Triangle ABC has equilateral triangles drawn on its edges. Points P, Q and R are the centres of the equilateral triangles. What can you prove about the triangle PQR?
Anti-Magic Square
problem

Anti-magic square

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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You may have met Magic Squares, now meet an Anti-Magic Square. Its properties are slightly different - can you still solve it?
L-triominoes
problem

L-triominoes

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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L triominoes can fit together to make larger versions of themselves. Is every size possible to make in this way?
Tessellation interactivity
interactivity

Tessellation interactivity

Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
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An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons
Colour in the Square
problem

Colour in the square

Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
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...

Last Biscuit
game

Last biscuit

Age
11 to 18
Challenge level
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Can you find a strategy that ensures you get to take the last biscuit in this game?

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?

Square It
problem

Square it

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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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.

Parallelogram It
problem

Parallelogram it

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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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 parallelogram.

Semi-regular Tessellations
problem

Semi-regular tessellations

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?

problem

Number sandwiches

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you arrange the digits 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 and 3 to make a Number Sandwich?

6 by 6 Mathdokus
problem

6 by 6 Mathdokus

Age
7 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you use the clues to complete these 6 by 6 Mathematical Sudokus?

Robotic Rotations
problem

Robotic rotations

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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How did the the rotation robot make these patterns?

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?

Estimating angles
game
Favourite

Estimating angles

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

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?

Nine Colours
problem

Nine colours

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you use small coloured cubes to make a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that each face of the bigger cube contains one of each colour?

Subtended angles
problem

Subtended angles

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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What is the relationship between the angle at the centre and the angles at the circumference, for angles which stand on the same arc? Can you prove it?

4 Dom
problem

4 dom

Age
5 to 11
Challenge level
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Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.

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?

Charlie's delightful machine
problem

Charlie's delightful machine

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?

Frogs
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?

Stars
problem

Stars

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?

Beelines
problem

Beelines

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Is there a relationship between the coordinates of the endpoints of a line and the number of grid squares it crosses?

Estimating time
problem

Estimating time

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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How well can you estimate 10 seconds? Investigate with our timing tool.

Which spinners?
problem

Which spinners?

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?

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?

Have you got it?
problem

Have you got it?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you explain the strategy for winning this game with any target?

Finding factors
problem

Finding factors

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find the hidden factors which multiply together to produce each quadratic expression?

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?

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?

Diamond Collector
game
Favourite

Diamond collector

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Collect as many diamonds as you can by drawing three straight lines.

Countdown
game
Favourite

Countdown

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

The Remainders Game
game
Favourite

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.

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?

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?

Less is More
problem

Less is more

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Use your knowledge of place value to try to win this game. How will you maximise your score?

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.

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?

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?

Factors and Multiples Game
game
Favourite

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?

problem

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?

problem

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.

What numbers can we make now?
problem

What numbers can we make now?

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?

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?

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?

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?

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?

A little light thinking
problem

A little light thinking

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you make two lights switch on at once? Three lights? All four lights?

Rhombus It
problem

Rhombus it

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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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 rhombus.

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?

Remainders
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?

problem

Right angles

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?

problem

At right angles

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you decide whether two lines are perpendicular or not? Can you do this without drawing them?

problem

Cyclic quadrilaterals

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Draw some quadrilaterals on a 9-point circle and work out the angles. Is there a theorem?

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?

Tea Cups
problem

Tea cups

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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Place the 16 different combinations of cup/saucer in this 4 by 4 arrangement so that no row or column contains more than one cup or saucer of the same colour.

Arithmagons
problem

Arithmagons

Age
11 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges?

Multiplication arithmagons
problem

Multiplication arithmagons

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find the values at the vertices when you know the values on the edges of these multiplication arithmagons?