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(Several of these activities use state of the art Internet technologies - (FLASH 5 plugin required)

At Ambleside we involve children in all parts of the process of designing and creating content for our website. Many of these games have been designed by, or with children. .

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Problems? - No problem - Try our multiple choice quiz made using FLASH 5 (requires the new FLASH 5 plugin)

The Fractotron - Pupils in Year 6 made this game to practise their fractions after creating the formulae to generate the numbers on a spreadsheet!

Your Number's up! This is a four player game (5 if someone is in charge of the mouse). Made completely by Callum, Jennifer, James, Alex, Pieran (playtested.. to death... by Jonathan!) TOTALLY AWESOME EXCITEMENT!

Your Number's up - EASY VERSION! This is an easier four player version of our game. We made the numbers smaller.

FUNCTION MACHINES - Powerful number problems program. Created from spreadsheet formulae by children in Year 4

THE TABLE TREES - Practice your tables with this great activity designed by Tarn & Alex in Year 4

CALLUM'S ADDITION PYRAMID - Can you open the Mummy's Tomb? - This game was designed by a Year 4 pupil.

THE TOTALLY MENTAL MACHINE - challenging mental arithmetic "real world" problems! - Thanks to the children who invented the questions and defined the random number ranges to create just the right amount of challenge!

ONLINE CALCULATOR - Try this new online calculator, or check out the original whiteboard sized one below.

BIG ONLINE CALCULATOR - Do you need to teach how to use a calculator to a whole class? - Try this big buttoned, highly visible screen calculator.

Shape, Space and Angles:

WHAT'S MY ANGLE? - online resource for teaching angles.

ANGLE ACTIVITIES - 20 interactive investigations using a protractor.

VIRTUAL TANGRAM - Explore shapes with our amazing interactive tangram.

100 / Table square activities:

COUNTER SQUARE - Don't bother with an OHP. Support your Numeracy Hour with this useful tool. Try the "Four in a Row" game!

SCRIBBLE - SQUARE - 100 square that can be drawn on and annotated onscreen..

SCRIBBLE - TABLES SQUARE - Times Table version.

INTERACTIVE NUMBER SQUARE - a teaching tool with 100 uses!

INTERACTIVE MULTIPLICATION SQUARE - Tables practices

BIG COUNT - Early Years Counting Program - Simple to use - endless uses!

NUMBERLINES - Really useful tool for teaching Number Lines

THE DECIFRACTATOR - Explore decimals and fractions with your class.

SUPER SEQUENCER - practice your number patterns and decimals with this totally MEGA useful program! - Essential for Numeracy Hour at all ages. It can sequence decimals!

MULTI SEQUENCER - explore fractions tables and number relationships with this extended program that can display two changing number sequences at the same time.

NUMBER PATTERN GRIDS - practice number patterns with this useful tool.UPDATED to provide random tests.

NUMBER BOND MACHINES - Practice this vital skill here - to 5, 10, 100 or set your own. Very useful!

GUESS THE NUMBER - the classic estimation and halving activity.

Graphs:

AMBLEGRAPH - Create simple bar charts online. Children can use if for very quick surveys or a teacher can use it to model the construction of a bar graph with a class or group. Most elements are editable.

Time:

ANALOGUE CLOCK - Time Teaching Tool for Teachers!

Skills practice programs, games and puzzles:

BUTTON BEACH CHALLENGE - Puzzle and Problems - A taster of our forthcoming "Oddsocks - The Land of the Lost" Interactive web based mental maths adventure. (Allow 10 seconds for the download to complete.)

The Multiplication Machine - Quick, simple practice for your tables.

The Addition Machine - Choose a skill level and off you go.

The Subtraction Machine - Keep on going

The Division Machine - If you know your tables this should not be too hard!

INTERACTIVE GEOMETRY SECTION - online tools to support the teaching of shape, angles and symmetry. (req. JAVA enabled browser)

Interactive Number Base Convertor - learn all about Binary, Hexadecimal and more! (may not work on all machines)

The Fraction Machine - compare and create equivalent fractions with this interactive activity.

Shape Database - use our online database to learn your 2D & 3D shapes.

Yahtzee - play this challenging game of probability and chance online!

Prime Number Checker - use our interactive machine to learn about these amazing numbers!

Your weight on other planets -use our own online calculator to learn about gravity.

Temperature Conversion Program - converts Celsius to Farenheit and back!

Guess the number - a Javascript version of this classic classroom activity.

Tables Test 1

Tables Test 2

Brainwave - mental maths test

Braintwister - harder mental maths test

Braindrainer - very hard mental maths test

For loads more interactive learning activities, try our new ClickOn@Ambleweb section or check out our expanding collection of Maths Links