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Use the tangram pieces to make our pictures, or to design some of your own!
A game to make and play based on the number line.
Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?
Dice games for younger children.
Here are a collection of games from around the world to try during the holidays or the last few weeks of term.
Find all the numbers that can be made by adding the dots on two dice.
An ancient game for two from Egypt. You’ll need twelve distinctive ‘stones’ each to play. You could chalk out the board on the ground – do ask permission first.
Try playing this game from New Zealand at the beach by drawing the board in the sand. Find an opponent and see if you can win by ending up with your shell in the centre space.
A game for two players based on a game from the Somali people of Africa. The first player to pick all the other’s ‘pumpkins’ is the winner.
A game from Italy. Play with a friend and see if you can be the first to get five pieces in a line.
This Chinese game for two players is a simple version of Wei ch’i or Go. Each player has 20 distinctive pieces – try coins, pebbles, shells. You could try marking the board out in wet sand.
This game is known as Pong hau k’i in China and Ou-moul-ko-no in Korea. Find a friend to play or try the interactive version online.
This is a game in which your counters move in a spiral round the snail’s shell. It is about understanding tens and units.
Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?
This game for two, was played in ancient Egypt as far back as 1400 BC. The game was taken by the Moors to Spain, where it is mentioned in 13th century manuscripts, and the Spanish name Alquerque derives from the Arabic El- quirkat. Watch out for being ‘huffed’.
Use the interactivity to generate some sets of five numbers.
Use the interactivity below to help you work out how many plants he should put in the potting shed on the first day, and how many he should plant in each garden.
Do you know a quick way to check if a number is a multiple of two? How about three, four or six?
Use the interactivity below to compare different mixtures of lemonade and develop a strategy for deciding which is stronger each time.
By clicking on some of the cells to reveal the answers, can you work out what the headings must be?
