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Primary Interactive Resources

On this page you can find interactive environments, games and problems for learners aged 5-11.

Interactive environments

These general interactive environments can be used to support learners' work on a variety of activities.

  • Interactive Balance
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    Interactive Balance

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    In this simulation of a balance, you can drag numbers and parts of number sentences on to the trays. Have a play!

  • Cuisenaire environment
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    Cuisenaire Environment

    Age
    5 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    An environment which simulates working with Cuisenaire rods.

  • Dominoes Environment
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    Dominoes Environment

    Age
    5 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    These interactive dominoes can be dragged around the screen.

  • Tangram Browser
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    Tangram Browser

    Age
    7 to 11

    Explore our selection of interactive tangrams. Can you use the tangram pieces to re-create each picture?

  • Virtual Geoboard
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    Virtual Geoboard

    Age
    7 to 16

    This virtual geoboard allows you to create shapes by stretching rubber bands between pegs on the board.

  • Tessellation interactivity
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    Tessellation Interactivity

    Age
    7 to 16
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3
    An environment that enables you to investigate tessellations of regular polygons

Interactive activities

These problems and games all have interactive content, making them ideal for learners to tackle on tablets or laptops.

  • Seesaw Shenanigans
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    Seesaw Shenanigans

    Age
    3 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    A group of animals has made a seesaw in the woods. How can you make the seesaw balance?

  • One Big Triangle
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    One Big Triangle

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Make one big triangle so the numbers that touch on the small triangles add to 10.

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    Robot Monsters

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Use these head, body and leg pieces to make Robot Monsters which are different heights.

  • Cuisenaire Counting
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    Cuisenaire Counting

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Here are some rods that are different colours. How could I make a yellow rod using white and red rods?

  • Same Length Trains
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    Same Length Trains

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How many trains can you make which are the same length as Matt's and Katie's, using rods that are identical?

  • Are you well Balanced?
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    Are You Well Balanced?

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you work out how to make each side of this balance equally balanced? You can put more than one weight on a hook.

  • Cover the Camel
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    Cover the Camel

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you cover the camel with these pieces?

  • Sizing them Up
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    Sizing Them Up

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you put these shapes in order of size? Start with the smallest.

  • Sort the Street
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    Sort the Street

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?

  • Turning Man
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    Turning Man

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Use the interactivity to find out how many quarter turns the man must rotate through to look like each of the pictures.

  • 100 Square Jigsaw
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    100 Square Jigsaw

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?

  • Matching Triangles
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    Matching Triangles

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?

  • Inside Triangles
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    Inside Triangles

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How many different triangles can you draw which each have one dot in the middle?

  • Repeating Patterns
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    Repeating Patterns

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?

  • An arrow target with three arrows sticking out of the centre section.
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    Two-Digit Targets

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    You have a set of the digits from 0 to 9. Can you arrange these in the five boxes to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible?

  • Matching Time
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    Matching Time

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Try this matching game which will help you recognise different ways of saying the same time interval.

  • Always, Sometimes or Never? KS1
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    Always, Sometimes or Never? KS1

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Are these statements relating to calculation and properties of shapes always true, sometimes true or never true?

  • Tables Teaser
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    Tables Teaser

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How will you work out which numbers have been used to create this multiplication square?

  • Equivalent Pairs
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    Equivalent Pairs

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you match pairs of cards which show the same amount?

  • Colouring Triangles
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    Colouring Triangles

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?

  • Chain of Changes
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    Chain of Changes

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    In this activity, shapes can be arranged by changing either the colour or the shape each time. Can you find a way to do it?

  • Coloured Squares
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    Coloured Squares

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Use the clues to colour each square.

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    Three Ball Line Up

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Use the interactivity to help get a feel for this problem and to find out all the possible ways the balls could land.

  • Find the Difference
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    Find the Difference

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Place the numbers 1 to 6 in the circles so that each number is the difference between the two numbers just below it.

  • Light the Lights
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    Light the Lights

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    Investigate which numbers make these lights come on. What is the smallest number you can find that lights up all the lights?

  • Number Round Up
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    Number Round Up

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Arrange the numbers 1 to 6 in each set of circles below. The sum of each side of the triangle should equal the number in its centre.

  • Square split into a triangle and trapezium
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    Tangram Tangle

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?

  • Stop the Clock
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    Stop the Clock

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    This is a game for two players. Can you find out how to be the first to get to 12 o'clock?

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    Four Triangles Puzzle

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?

  • Multiplication Tables - matching cards
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    Multiplication Tables - Matching Cards

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Practise your tables skills and try to beat your previous best score in this interactive game.

  • Growing Garlic
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    Growing Garlic

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Ben and his mum are planting garlic. Can you find out how many cloves of garlic they might have had?

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    Venn Diagrams

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How will you complete these interactive Venn diagrams?

  • Largest Even
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    Largest Even

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    How would you create the largest possible two-digit even number from the digit I've given you and one of your choice?

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    Poly Plug Rectangles

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?

  • Seeing Squares
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    Seeing Squares

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    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.

  • Carroll Diagrams
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    Carroll Diagrams

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?

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    Teddy Town

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    There are nine teddies in Teddy Town - three red, three blue and three yellow. There are also nine houses, three of each colour. Can you put them on the map of Teddy Town according to the rules?

  • Three Squares
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    Three Squares

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares?

  • 4 Dom
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    4 Dom

    Age
    5 to 11
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Use these four dominoes to make a square that has the same number of dots on each side.