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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.

  • 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?

  • 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?

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    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?

  • Two's company
    problem

    Two's company

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Seven balls are shaken. You win if the two blue balls end up touching. What is the probability of winning?

  • Cosy corner
    problem

    Cosy corner

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Six balls are shaken. You win if at least one red ball ends in a corner. What is the probability of winning?

  • Speeding up, slowing down
    problem

    Speeding up, slowing down

    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 its speed at each stage.

  • 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?

  • Hourglass with blue sand.
    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.

  • Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'
    problem

    Rollin' rollin' rollin'

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Two circles of equal radius touch at P. One circle is fixed whilst the other moves, rolling without slipping, all the way round. How many times does the moving coin revolve before returning to P?
  • Up and across
    problem

    Up and across

    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 its vertical and horizontal movement at each stage.

  • Diamond Collector
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    Diamond collector

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

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • Countdown fractions
    problem

    Countdown fractions

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.

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    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?

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Magic potting sheds
    problem

    Magic potting sheds

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Mr McGregor has a magic potting shed. Overnight, the number of plants in it doubles. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of three gardens, planting one garden each day. Can he do it?

  • Pythagoras Proofs
    problem

    Pythagoras proofs

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you make sense of these three proofs of Pythagoras' Theorem?

  • Robotic Rotations
    problem

    Robotic rotations

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

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • More Magic Potting sheds
    problem

    More magic potting sheds

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    The number of plants in Mr McGregor's magic potting shed increases overnight. He'd like to put the same number of plants in each of his gardens, planting one garden each day. How can he do it?
  • crossing the bridge
    problem

    Crossing the Bridge

    Age
    11 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Four friends must cross a bridge. How can they all cross it in just 17 minutes?

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • Attractive Tablecloths
    problem

    Attractive tablecloths

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?

  • A question of scale
    problem

    A question of scale

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?

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    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?

  • 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?

  • Guesswork
    problem

    Guesswork

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Ask a friend to choose a number between 1 and 63. By identifying which of the six cards contains the number they are thinking of it is easy to tell them what the number is.

  • 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?

  • Power match
    problem

    Power match

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you locate these values on this interactive logarithmic scale?

  • Direct logic
    problem

    Direct logic

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you work through these direct proofs, using our interactive proof sorters?

  • Interactive workout - Mathmo
    problem

    Interactive workout - Mathmo

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Mathmo is a revision tool for post-16 mathematics. Give yourself a mathematical workout!