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This great free software enables you to create your own mathematical jigsaws or dominoes. You choose the shape (hexagon, rhombus, parallelogram, rectangle or even a parquet). You print off on card and laminate or just print on paper and cut up.

Just like Blue Peter here are some I made earlier.

Decimals Calculations Level 1

Calculations This is ideal for ESOL students revising words for the 4 rules.

To download the free software so you can make your own go to Hermitech Laboratory and download Formulator Tarsia.

I guess there are numeracy teachers all over the country with libraries of these jigsaws! If you would like to share yours with everybody please send me your masterpieces and I will endeavour to publish them here. Mr Barton Maths.com has an amazing collection of 550 jigsaws on his website here.

This exercise is to help ESOL students with their mathematical vocabulary. When you have checked your answers refresh your page and you will get a new exercise.

Here is an on-line version of the ancient game of Merrelles or Nine Man’s Morris. Scroll down to read the instructions.

Why not make your own board to play this game? You can draw the board on card and use coins or whatever you can find for the counters. You need 9 counters in 2 colours.

Great work from the Rappin’ Mathematician

See how much money you can win on this addictive game! To calculate the probability each time work out first how many card are left and put this number on the bottom of the fraction. Then work out how many cards that haven’t been turned over yet are higher or lower than the last card. Put this number on the top.Sometimes you will be certain that the next card is higher or lower because all the cards that are higher have already been turned over. If you are certain then it is worth wagering all the money. If the probability is nearer to a half only gamble a small amount of money. This way you should soon become rich!

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This quiz starts with entry level questions but to win a million you need to be able to solve equations and be an expert at 3d shapes! Who wants to be a mathionaire?

The Tower of Hanoi is one of the most famous mathematical puzzles. See if you can work out how to do it with 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 discs. Then see if you can do it using the minimum number of moves.