Resources
As well as the sites listed on the activities page, below
are some sites which contain excellent teaching and recreational material. The sites below also have many useful links
to the many thousands of sites which could prove useful- happy surfing!
This extensive site
contains a number of different topic pages including a wealth of material
available to teachers – some free some not!
The puzzles page contains a drop down menu called choose from which you
can select various games and puzzles.
The daily puzzle page has three puzzles which are changed each day.
http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Games/Puzzles/
The Yahoo site is
much more than simply a search engine.
It contains numerous pages of its own devoted to almost every topic, and
numerous links to specific topic sites.
The above page links to a huge number of well categorised sites . Start with
the maths puzzles, and then explore the others.
Note that the tic-tac-toe (or noughts and crosses is good for weaker
pupils)
This is the mensa quiz page.
There are 30 questions in this mensa quiz which
you can submit for marking if you wish, or just do for fun. The time suggested for this exercise is 30
minutes, but you could don’t need to stick to this if its
just a mental workout! One for the more able pupils.
www.maths.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~smc/smclinks
(Scottish
mathematical council – many links to good sites including maths challenge
quizzes. There brain teasers and puzzles
on this site which are updated every week on Weds. They are also set at three different levels
see the linked site at
www.eduplace.com/math/brain/index.html)
(mathematics
enrichment – maths online club – lots of quizzes games, news, courses etc. and
its free!! The odd Tic Tac game is
unusual, and is more challenging than first appears.)
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A798221
“Mathematical games
as an aid to teaching Maths”. Just what
teachers of maths need – an excellent academic explanation of the usefullness
of games, and also some games and links to other games sites.
Learn (The site of
The Guardian) – first class as you would expect from this paper. There are lesson plans, ideas and useful
links to many other sites. Well worth a
visit as it would be time well spent.
www.greylabyrinth.com/puzzles.htm
This is a site
which is more demanding – excellent for extending the more able pupils. This site is updated weekly, and always
contains at least one unsolved puzzle, as well as a large archive of games and
puzzles. Interesting!
www.pass.maths.org.uk/index.html
Great site for news
and interesting articles about maths (including codes and encryption and where
to aim a penalty to achieve the best results i.e. a goal) The puzzles are very demanding, but well
worth a visit for the news page and links.
There is also a page which reviews any maths related books.
site set up to promote maths into the new millennium. Select games – the tangrams game is very nice
but you need to know that to rotate the individual pieces, right click your
mouse. This site also has a daily
puzzle.
Following on from Maths Year 2000,
Count On is the new Government project promoting Maths for All. It will
continue the programme of MathFests around the country and has funding for
further events nationwide. info@counton.org or e-mail newsletter@counton.org
with the message “subscribe” to receive a regular e-mail newsletter
www.mathsisfun.com/puzzle.html
this is an excellent site for teachers and pupils. The puzzles page has some puzzles you can try
online, and some you can print out and cut up.
Try the ARMS puzzle – I bet you don’t get the right answer!! (first class)
www.mathpower.com/funstuff.htm
This fun page can
be quite entertaining. For a good mental
arithmetic at fairly basic level try the guess a number game. This involves adding and subtracting two
digit number and multiplying by single digit
numbers. There are also some useful
resources such as homework or classwork exercises in various topics at a fairly basic levels (e.g. simple algebra and number
work)
www.mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/RecreationalMathematics.html
This site claims to have the largest resources of
maths material on the web. It is a free
site for the maths community provided by Wolfram Research the makers of
Mathematica. In the above page there are
games and puzzles etc. but one page well worth seeing is the illusions page. This contains dozens of pictures which will
baffle and confuse. Excellent
fun.