Mr Daw's Favourite Maths Games

Matching game

Matching game - Match fractions / percentages, shapes, or addition / multiplication calculations.  I'm grateful to www.subtangent.com for permission to publish this game on our site.

Algebra / sequences / number problems

The Flash Mind Reader - Magic or maths? See if you can work it out!

www.waldomaths.com/wimpBT/htm/linseq1.htm - This page will help you solve linear sequences.

http://mathematics.hellam.net/maths2000/thinkno1.html - Think of a number game.

Angles

www.counton.org/games/circus/ - Games including Clown Clear-up, which involves using angles to steer a car and burst balloons.

www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/angle.swf - Estimate the angle!

http://10ticks.co.uk/s_showGames.aspx?gameID=2#gamesContent - Alien angles: shoot down the alien by estimating the angle correctly. (Make sure you type in a three-digit number - 44o = 044o)

Coordinates

www.counton.org/games/virtualmathfest/dinosaur.html - Dinosaur Dig.

Probability

www.stlukes.e-folio.org.uk/home/daw/higher-lower.html - Higher or Lower? I'm grateful to www.subtangent.com for permission to publish this game on our site.

Fractions

www.learningplanet.com/sam/ff/index.asp Find the equivalent fractions. It gets HARD!

www.funbrain.com/fract/index.html Find the fraction which is not equivalent out of a set.

www.funbrain.com/match2/index.html Fraction matching game (select "fractions" from the menu or you'll get something else!)

www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/fswitch.html - Put the fractions in the right order.

www.visualfractions.com/Compare.html Comapre fraction using < or > .

www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/saloonsnap.html - How fast are you to recognise equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages?

www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/sock.html - Fill the holes to make the target value - decimals.

See also the matching game at the top of the page.

Multiplication

www.multiplication.com  This is the website we used in class on Wednesday (Jamie!)

www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/nummaze.html - Pick up numbers and operators from around the maze to make a number sentence which equals 100. Who can do it in the fewest moves? 

www.hellam.net/maths2000/cruncher.html - Crunch the multiples as quickly as possible. You can change the speed and skill level on this game.

www.counton.org/games/mathonaire/ - Who wants to be a Mathonaire? Quiz game.

www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/tabletimes.html How fast are you at answering ten consecutive times tables questions correctly?

www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/buildbug.html - Build a bug and develop your calculation skills.

www.counton.org/games/map-numbers/octopus/ - Octopus factors.

www.aplusmath.com/games/picture/MultPicture.html - answer the multiplication problems to reveal the picture (this takes a while to load sometimes).

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/toftwood/spitfireufo.html - Spitfire multiplication - shoot down the correct answers.

www.kidport.com/Grade8/Math/NumberSense/G8-M-NS-Mult1Dec.htm - Self-marking multiplication of decimals.

www.playkidsgames.com/games/shuttleLaunch/default.htm# Space Shuttle multiplication - choose hard level for some good mental problems.

Division

www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/division/written/game.shtml - The amoeba game - practise standard-method division.

Calculations

www.counton.org/games/gotit/  - A game which requires you to try to calculate a given number using several other numbers.

3D shape

www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/3dboxes.html  - Calculate the volume of a range of cuboids.

Problem solving

http://amby.com/go_ghoti/on-line.html  - Some really good puzzles. Just don't ask me to help you...