The Connect 4 activity requires students to choose a question and use their skill of expanding brackets and simplifying expressions to answer the question. Player one answers their question then finds, and shades in with one colour, the answer on the answer grid. Player two then takes their turn, shading their...

Connect 4: this activity requires students to choose a diagram and use their knowledge of angle facts to find the size of the desired angle. Player one answers their question then finds, and shades in with one colour, the answer on the answer grid. Player two then takes their turn, shading their answer using a...

This activity requires students to be able to ascertain the range and mode from a list, be able to order a list to find the median and calculate the mean. It could also be used to require students to calculate the averages from a stem and leaf diagram or in a table.

The resource contains three sets of cards...

Connect 4: this activity requires students to choose a question and use their knowledge...

This Free-standing Mathematics Activity from the Nuffield Foundation is designed as a game to give students practice in working with money, entering items onto a bank statement and calculating the balance. To play the game, cards are placed face down in a pile. Students then take turns to turn over a card, enter...

Is it possible to use a 'broken calculator' in this activity to make a given set of numbers?

Students are required to show how they would use each calculator to generate the numbers from one to twenty.

A selection of games published by BEAM for teachers of Key Stage Three mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles which help students to consolidate their mathematical understanding.

The activities and their mathematical content are:

*Choose and divide - division using decimals

This activity from Cre8ate maths explores Platonic solids, which are formed from regular polygons where all their faces are identical and all their vertices are identical too. Students are told that there are only five platonic solids, which they can build using triangles, squares and pentagons. Completing the...

Connect 4: this activity requires students to choose a question and use their skill of adding and subtracting decimals to answer the question. Player one answers their question then finds, and shades in with one colour, the answer on the answer grid. Player two then takes their turn, shading their...

A selection of games published by BEAM for students to practise using their understanding of the mathematical topics of fractions, decimals and percentages whilst developing a strategic approach. The games, with their mathematical content, are: *Three in a row - strategy game using division with decimals *Halves...

Future Morph Careers Quest was developed for students attending one of the the Big Bang science fairs. In the activity, students question exhibitors about aspects of their work and how they had chosen their particular career.

Whilst developed for an exhibition context, the resources can suggest questions for...

This Nuffield Foundation resource opens with a team game that demonstrates the need for careful planning and collaboration. Students use their findings to construct a standard operating procedure that enables them to improve their performance through better collaboration. They are also introduced to their games...

This Subtangent wordsearch resource provides the opportunity to reinforce topic specific spelling and the terminology used across the mathematical curriculum.

The number of words to be found varies, although most of...

Published by BEAM this selection of games allows students to practise and consolidate their understanding of properties of number, including factors and square numbers. *Factor score - identifying factors in two-digit numbers *Factors game - strategy game to make a line of four numbers with selected factors *Four-...

This activity from Cre8ate maths lends itself to the development of personal thinking and learning skills, based on activities for a playground. Making a maze involves students in quite complex 2-D visualisation, working with a prepared spreadsheet, in excel, which encourages students to refine and redraft their...