Numeracy Explorer
A numeracy web site
designed for infant teachers and children.
BBC - Numbertime
Integrating ICT with KS2 Numeracy
Count On!
Count On is the continuation of Maths Year 2000 from the DfES.
Star Tower
Poor old duck is having trouble putting numbers in the right order. Can you help her?
Also try The Sums Dispenser which creates sets of 10 sums. You can choose the type of sum
and the level of difficulty. The sums will be marked when you have finished. Are you any good at co-ordinates? The Magic Map is incomplete. You have to put
various symbols in the right places on the map.
The first five activities are just a small
selection from:
where you can find lots more Maths games and online resources!
Math Baseball
FUNBRAIN will give you a maths problem. Enter the answer to the problem and hit the
"Swing" button. If your answer is correct, you will get a hit. FUNBRAIN will
decide if the hit is a single, double, triple, or home run based on the difficulty of the
problem. If your answer is wrong, you will get an out. The game is over after three outs.
Choose from Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, or all four operations and four levels
of difficulty.
What's the Point?
Using co-ordinates.
Soccer Shoot-out
Score and Save by correctly answering math problems. First you shoot, then try to save the
shot by FunBrain. Remember to reduce your answers (fractions only).
Fresh Baked Fractions
You are shown four fractions. Three of the fractions are equivalent. They can all be
simplified to to the same fraction. Click on the fraction that is not equal to the others.
Choose from four levels of difficulty.
Shape Surveyor
Choose what you would like to play - perimeters and/or areas - and hit "Start
Digging" to begin the game.
Primary Games
Maths games for 1 or 2 players, mostly for number bonds practice and mental
maths including fractions and decimals.
BBC MegaMaths
: Problem solving age 7-9
Come in and meet Shapemate, your host to the World of Shapes, in this
fun and easy to use website. Shape properties, mirror lines and transformations become
hands-on activities and challenges for teaching the National Curriculum on Shape and
Space.
Multiplication Tables are hard to remember! So, take a trip around the World of Tables where
practice makes perfect. Find your way round the MegaMaze, play the Grid Game or have a go
at the Table Tournament, in this invaluable website for testing and reinforcing Times
Tables.
BBC Numberwork
A maths quest involving 6 activities. Work through each challenge to collect six gold
coins and get Zak from Acapulco to Chihuahua.
Add, subtract, multiply and divide. Sums to keep you busy.
Do you know your cubes from your pyramids?
Can you crack the code by guessing the secret numbers?
North, South, East or West. Never give your second best!
Find a sum equal to... can you balance out your numbers?
Tick Tock. Do you know your digital clock? BBC ReviseWise Maths
Get your head around addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Take a visit to
Gere's Bike Shop and help them read their graphs and charts. Practise working out the
mode, median and mean for a set of numbers. Take a look at time, mass and capacity.
Investigate the properties of different shapes. Get your brain ticking with some mental
maths questions.
Interactive Games from Maths Online (formerly MathsResources)
Splat - angle
estimation
Post the
Shapes - rotate, translate and reflect the shapes. Try to drop the shapes down the
holes in the least number of transformations.
Fraction Pairs
- match the fraction cards - but remember where you saw them!
Transformation
Golf - rotate, reflect and translate the golf ball to pot the ball in the least number
of moves.
Patterns From Tiles
Explore symmetry by reflection and rotation. Solve problems based on logic and
permutations.
Animated
tutorial for KS2 on Excel spreadsheets
This tutorial from BT provides a step-by-step guide to making a spreadsheet in Microsoft
Excel. You can view the tutorial online or download it onto your computer. The tutorial
explores the following topics: • What is a spreadsheet? • Introduction to Excel
• Cells, columns and rows • Starting a table • Borders and colours •
Calculations
