Puzzles and Games

All the content of this blog can now be found on Mathematics Learning and Technology and any future updates and additions will be made there. All sections have been updated and checked, additionally, there are many new activities and some new sections also. Read the post on the updates here.

Puzzles & Games Index

• Reading
• Collections
• Puzzles
• Logic
• Vocabulary
• Nim
• Counters
• Tables
• Number
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Probability & Statistics
• Pencil and Paper
• Bingo
• Memory Games
• Underground Maths

Nrich articles on learning Mathematics through games:

• Why Games?
• Types of Games
• Creating Your Own Games
• Strategy Games
• Winning Lines (Noughts and Crosses, Online, Magic Squares, Fifteen, Jam)
• Using Games in the Classroom
• Using Dice Games in the Classroom (age 3-11)
• The Use of Mathematics in Computer Games (age 16-18)
• Primary Games and Puzzles for Summer 2021
• Secondary Games and Puzzles for Summer 2021

GeoGebra

Puzzles – Daniel Mentrard

From Daniel Mentrard on GeoGebra, Puzzles.

And 64 geometric puzzles.

64 geometric puzzles (a competitor of the tangram). It's your turn! Send an image of your solution :=)@geogebra

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— Daniel Mentrard (@dment37) June 24, 2021

Mathematical Memory Activities

Mathematical memory games and more…

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A Back to School collection of activities from Transum Mathematics was a reminder of many activities I like and a source of some new discoveries. Looking at the Develop Your Memory suggestions, I noted Number Recall something which I think I’ll try with Year 7 when we look at Statistics. It is often said that the average person can remember 7 digit numbers; the Transum activity allows a choice of the number of digits so we’ll see how good our memories are! I rather like the Kim’s Game activity here too which led me to a collection of Kim’s Games on Transum including Angle Theorem Kim’s Game, something to try perhaps when reviewing Circle Theorems.

Transum Mathematics – Angle Theorem Kim’s Game

In fact, Transum has a whole collection of memory activities, the collection includes the various Kim’s game activities and many more. There are several pairs games…

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Finding the nine

It is still Summer holiday time for some of us, so try this lovely puzzle. See plus magazine – Finding the nine. (There is a link to a very clear solution in the video).

 

Celebration of Mind

 For some excellent Mathematical Puzzles and games resources have a look at Celebration of Mind.

Yohaku

Yohakuu is a puzzle that will test your number sense and problem solving skills. Each Yohaku puzzle is either an additive or a multiplicative puzzle. You must fill in the empty cells such that they give the sum or product shown in each row and column as well as satisfying a rule if given.

Choose from 2×2, 3×3 or 4×4 puzzles.

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These could be used as Starters or perhaps in form time.

Follow Yohaku on Twitter. Checking the Twitter stream I noted this algebraic puzzle below, an excellent idea. Try a little logic, where must c be placed for example.

Spirograph

Play with the wonderful Spirograph!

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Spirograph by Nathan Friend

As a child my Spirograph was definitely a favourite toy so I was delighted to find this digital version, Inspirograph by Nathan Friend. Try altering the gears so that the fixed and rotating gear are the same size, or make one size a factor of the other, make the two sizes have a common factor, or not! Investigate.

You can change the colours too and create a work of Art!

For some more Spirograph resources including from the awesome Desmos graphing calculator see this post.

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Find the Factors

Find the Factors Puzzles – Iva Sallay

For a puzzle with a difference which requires both logic and multiplication try a Find the Factors puzzle from Iva Sallay on her Find the Factors blog. In this Find the Factors 1-10 puzzle can you place the numbers 1 to 10 in the first row and the first column to make the multiplication table work? Iva Sallay has clearly explained the puzzles here: How to Find the Factors.

New puzzles are published each week, I like the Excel files provided with puzzles of varying levels of difficulty. You will also find many hints and tips in the various posts. See Hooked on Factoring, for example, a post giving techniques for solving the puzzles and an Excel file of puzzles.

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?

Where to start?

Note – a completely updated series of pages on games and puzzles can be found here on Mathematics, Learning and Technology.