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Use the Riddle
of the Runes to solve the riddles. Challenging!
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Go is a very old game of strategy
which, along with Backgammon, is the oldest game still played in
its original form. It originated in China several thousand years
ago and is a very popular game in China, Japan, and Korea but it
has fans all around the world. It is similar to Chess in that it
is a game requiring concentration but ... many players say it is
more challenging than chess or bridge!
Learn how to play
Go on The British Go Association website.
English books on Go.
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Tantrix was first invented in 1987
by former New Zealand Backgammon Champion Mike McManaway. A game of Tantrix contains 56 Bakelite tiles
painted in four colours.
Visit the site to try it out online - it's great! This
is one of the games that is available on our Maths
Games Day
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Tantrix puzzle online, you re-arrange the tiles using your
mouse to make a loop of one specific colour using all the
tiles of the puzzle. Whenever tiles touch the colours of
connecting links must match and there must be no holes in
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the puzzle asks - 'choose a colour from the following 4
tiles, and form a loop of your chosen colour' - a correct
solution (it will only work in blue) would be to place the
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Both these
sites are excellent.
Grog's
Magic Squares
Magic Squares
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The definitive Magic Squares site!
Everything you ever wanted to know - and much more! The
history of Magic Squares, linked stories and classroom
activities as well construction and special properties.
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Teach your pupils
how to play chess with a free online chess course.
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Interactive chess
lessons
Quizzes
Games and puzzles for children
Play chess against the computer
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FREE online chess books for children -
download and print
Everything YOUR school needs to run a chess club
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A unique chess site
for children, teachers and parents.
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Fantasy Football is an ideal way
of getting reluctant maths pupils - but enthusiastic
football fans - motivated in doing maths for the fun of it!
This online Telegraph
Fantasy Football League - Premier League and Nationwide -
gives you millions of pounds to spend and deadlines to meet.
There is a charge to register - £5 a team or £10 for three.
Worth every penny.
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Play Connect-four
below against your computer.
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It doesn't matter how old you, or your
pupils, are there are challenging - but fun - activities to suit
everyone on this American Funbrain
site.
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Masses of puzzles and games for Key
Stage 1 and 2 and older.
Try these for starters Ball
drop - demonstrates the normal curve of distribution - the
bell curve.
Crossfire
puzzle - numeric version of crosswords.
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Mind teasers for 11-14 year olds.
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Interactive
maths fun puzzles - how to measure out exactly 4 litres of water
with only a 5-litre jug and a 3-litre jug, ... help a farmer with
a fox, a chicken and a bag of corn cross a river in a boat without
anything being eaten. etc.
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Interactive
Fun
Puzzles |
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Visualise
solids.
This site provides Java graphics that
can be interactively rotated by clicking on them.
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Creative
puzzles from Enchanted
Mind - 'good for exercising both sides of the brain'! Tangrams, solitaire,
wordsearch, mastermind, Rubik cube, pentominoes, pyramid and knight's tour.
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A super site
from cut-the-knot.com
with a number of challenging interactive puzzles, also heaps of
teaching aids, software and assessment resources.
Suitable for Key
Stage 2, 3 and 4.
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Great
fun - KaleidoDraw
from Long Island's Children's Museum.
Create border
patterns using different symmetries, colour and point
thickness.
Create your own wall
paper - using seven of the seventeen patterns - simpler
than Kali - just for fun.
Design your own
quilt - each square has six possible positions. Use reflection
and rotation.
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Lunar Adventure - great fun. Try it!
Co-ordinate activity.
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This popular dice game - Yahtzee
Online - is from my favourite site - The school at Ambleside.
Ambleside
School
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Play a game of
Solitaire,
4DRubikCube
- interesting - but I still can't do it!!
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PC Downloads
from KidsDomain - Bingo Mathness, Math Strategies,
Geoboard demo, etc.
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Download
an electronic
geoboard from Utah State University.
Make sure to use the buttons at the top to get the best from this
super manipulative.
GREAT!
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