KS4 Maths Club Activities

These hands-on activities are ideal for students aged 14-16 to explore in maths clubs.

  • One orange stone and one grey stone.
    game

    Two Stones

    Age
    5 to 18

    This game is known as Pong hau k'i in China and Ou-moul-ko-no in Korea. Why not challenge a friend to play it with you?

  • Factors and Multiples Game
    game
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    Factors and Multiples Game

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level

    A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?

  • A colourful cube made from a plastic Polydron net.
    problem

    Air Nets

    Age
    7 to 18
    Challenge level

    Can you visualise whether these nets fold up into 3D shapes? Watch the videos each time to see if you were correct.

  • A cardboard carton of cherries.
    problem
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    Fruity Totals

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level

    In this interactivity each fruit has a hidden value. Can you deduce what each one is worth?

  • Xavi's T-shirt
    problem
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    Xavi's T-Shirt

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level

    How much can you read into a T-shirt?

  • Dominoes
    game

    Dominoes

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level

    Everthing you have always wanted to do with dominoes! Some of these games are good for practising your mental calculation skills, and some are good for your reasoning skills.

  • Pentanim
    game

    Pentanim

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level

    A game for 2 players with similarities to NIM. Place one counter on each spot on the games board. Players take it is turns to remove 1 or 2 adjacent counters. The winner picks up the last counter.

  • A green traffic light.
    game

    Low Go

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level

    A game for 2 players. Take turns to place a counter so that it occupies one of the lowest possible positions in the grid. The first player to complete a line of 4 wins.

  • A magician's black top hat and wand.
    problem

    Prime Magic

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level

    Place the numbers 1, 2, 3,..., 9 one on each square of a 3 by 3 grid so that all the rows and columns add up to a prime number. How many different solutions can you find?

  • Colour in the Square
    problem

    Colour in the Square

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level

    Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 × 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?

  • Four dominoes arranged with four threes in the centre.
    game

    Domino Magic Rectangle

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level

    An ordinary set of dominoes can be laid out as a 7 by 4 magic rectangle in which all the spots in all the columns add to 24, while those in the rows add to 42. Try it! Now try the magic square...

  • A line of eight dominoes standing on their ends.
    problem

    Eight Dominoes

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level

    Using the 8 dominoes, can you make a square where each of the columns and rows adds up to 8?

  • Two and Two
    problem
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    Two and Two

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level

    How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.

  • Areas on a grid
    problem

    Areas on a Grid

    Age
    11 to 16

    Take a look at the video showing areas of different shapes on dotty grids...

  • Are we nearly there?
    problem
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    Are We Nearly There?

    Age
    11 to 16

    Can you describe the route followed by the arrows?

  • Westminster Bridge at sunset with pedestrians and a red bus.
    problem

    Getting Round the City

    Age
    11 to 16

    In a city with a grid system of roads, how do you get from A to B?

  • What's it worth?
    problem
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    What's It Worth?

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level

    There are lots of different methods to find out what the shapes are worth - how many can you find?

  • Square It
    problem
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    Square It

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level

    Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.

  • Ten colourful lolly sticks in a line.
    problem
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    Take Ten Sticks

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level

    Take ten sticks in heaps any way you like. Make a new heap using one from each of the heaps. By repeating that process could the arrangement 7 - 1 - 1 - 1 ever turn up, except by starting with it?

  • Charlie's delightful machine
    problem
    Favourite

    Charlie's Delightful Machine

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level

    Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?

  • problem
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    Marbles in a Box

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level

    How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?

  • Take Three From Five
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    Take Three From Five

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level

    Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie tries to find three that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?

  • Tourism
    problem
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    Tourism

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level

    If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable.

  • Product Sudoku
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    Product Sudoku

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level

    The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.

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