Exploring Sumdog today reminded me of the many skills it is possible to practise on this site.
Instructions on how to use Sumdog.
Code Breaker
Code Breaker from Creativity Games.net has been added to the Puzzles Page.
Can you crack the hidden code and place the correct colour marbles in the correct place?
BrainBashers
Added to the Puzzles page, the BrainBashers site offers many resources to make you think and keep you amused.
Flashy Maths
John-Paul Green’s Flashy Maths has been added to the Collections page.
Try Asteroid – can you enter the correct angle to turn through to shoot the spaceship?
NumberCruncher
NumberCruncher from Science NetLinks offers a choice of two levels, the easiest allows you as many steps as you need to reach a target using given operations or for more of a challenge try to reach the target in less than seven steps. Click on ‘How To Play’ for clear instructions.
Puzzles
Added to the Puzzles page – Nikoli.com has a collection of puzzles which can be played online, for each puzzle type click on ’Rules’ and ‘How to Play’ for clear tutorials and instructions.
Latest Additions
Puzzles
The Set Game – a new puzzle daily
Conceptis Puzzles – a collection of logic puzzles
Where to start?
You may like to try the following, these games are easy to understand and use :
Number: Sumdog, Make 1000, Multiplication, Got It, Connect Three
Puzzles: The Set Game, Chocolate Fix, Rush Hour, Copy Cat
Counters: Diagonal Dodge
Paper: Daisy, Odd Tic Tac, Square It
Nim: Nim (NRICH)
Maths: Super Maths World, Estimating Angles, Weakest Link
The Collections page has numerous resourses.
Can you make these little people all stand up in the Mathisfun RayRay game?
Many of these games are from the outstanding nrich site – this has new challenges each month.
Welcome
You will find many games and puzzles to try here.
Many are from the excellent nrich site – this has new challenges each month.
Which of the games and puzzles do you like? Have you found any strategies?
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