16 | July | 2022 | Mathematics, Learning and Technology

Nrich will again publish a challenge a day throughout the UK summer break. Every weekday from 18 July to 2 September, a new interactive game or puzzle will appear on this Primary page and this Secondary page. Once students have tried the day’s challenge, they will be able to compare their approach to previously published students’ solutions.

Also, from Nrich, remember there are many interactive games and puzzles.

Perhaps try some curve stitching on Transum. Also, on Transum, you will find School Holiday Maths Activities; this collection has many activities to encourage students to continue their learning during the holidays. These are categorised, and we have a lovely mixture of learning, puzzles, and games to make students think. There is a great deal of choice here. See also the full list of all fun maths activities.

Try these brilliant GeoGebra puzzles from Daniel Mentrard, also his 64 geometric puzzles.

Perhaps try Tangram on Mathigon.
How many of the different shapes can you make?

Nrich also have a Tangram activity for students age 7 – 11 or for 5-14 years olds try Tangram Pictures.

I do enjoy puzzles, and the summer break offers time for more! Try the series of pages, Puzzles & Games available from the top menu.

Index

To highlight just a few resources from this large collection, Algebra includes the lovely SolveMe mobiles puzzles.

Or, for a rather different approach, try Shuttle Mission Workshop from Math Playground, here students build and solve their own visual math puzzles. Play Shuttle Mission Pro first to practise.

Nrich features on many pages, including reading; Nrich has many excellent articles on the use of games in the classroom; hence a Reading page.

On Number, Math Playground, PEMDAS Exhibit provides great practice for order of operations. Touch an operation to form that part of the operation.

On Geometry of course follow Catriona Agg who regularly posts new puzzles and has made her collection of screenshots freely available.

Following each puzzle, you can find a discussion on the puzzle. Have a look at this puzzle and discussion for example.

In response to this puzzle, you can see various solutions, including an Autograph file created by Rob Smith. Rob has this up to change both squares and you can move also move a point on the smaller square.

Another brilliant Geometry puzzle author is Ed Southall who made 40 puzzles available to celebrate his 40th birthday last year; he has also provided slides for teachers. Check his Geometry Cheat Sheet.

On Probability and Statistics try…

The collection includes from Cambridge PhD student Omar Wagih, ‘Guess the Correlation‘, a rather addictive game with a purpose – Omar Wagih is collecting the data on the guesses collected and using it to analyse how we perceive correlations in scatter plots. Select About to read the rules and further details.

The Underground Maths page includes several resources on puzzles and games.