Maths Resources. Free Maths Resources, Worksheets and Games. Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. Introduction This page contains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix (GTK), on Windows, and on Mac OS X. They can also be played on the web, as Java or Javascript applets. I wrote this collection because I thought there should be more small desktop toys available: little games you can pop up in a window and play for two or three minutes while you take a break from whatever else you were doing.
And I was also annoyed that every time I found a good game on (say) Unix, it wasn't available the next time I was sitting at a Windows machine, or vice versa; so I arranged that everything in my personal puzzle collection will happily run on both those platforms and more. The games The actual games in this collection were mostly not my invention; they are re-implementations of existing game concepts within my portable puzzle framework.
Below each image are two links to versions of the puzzle you can play on the web. Licence. Hello and welcome to my 38th gems post. This is where I share five teaching ideas I've seen on Twitter. As teachers start making plans and preparing resources for September, there's been a flurry of inspiring ideas on Twitter - I can barely keep up! 1. Tessellation It's quite rare that there's exciting news in the world of mathematics, but we've recently seen the discovery of a new type of tessellating pentagon. I like teaching tessellation - it follows nicely from polygon angles. I've never seen tessellation animations before so thanks to @MathsMastery for sharing these, I'll use them the next time I teach tessellation. 2.
There's been lots of tweets and posts about displays this week. I also like this growth mindset display from English teacher Rebecca Foster (@TLPMrsF) which is similar to the mindset display that I first wrote about in Gems 3, but would fit on a smaller noticeboard. 3. 4. 5. Lesley Hall (@lhmaths) created a great set of exit tickets that can be found here. SolveMe Puzzles.
Well the summer holidays are well and truly over. Many teachers, particularly those who are relatively new to teaching, will spend this weekend making lists, planning lessons and experiencing that unsettling feeling of nervous excitement. If you have time to read this week's set of maths gems, I hope they provide a little light relief. 1. Maths lessons for maths teachers I devote a lot of time to thinking about how to develop my teaching but spend far less time building on my own mathematical skills and knowledge. Whatever our background and however 'good' we are at maths, there's always more to learn. I feel that my knowledge of secondary school core mathematics is pretty sound but this week Ed Southall (@edsouthall) inadvertently pointed me in the direction of James Tanton's website (@jamestanton) and within minutes I was learning new things!
This seems pretty obvious now. At some point I'll read all of James Tanton's enlightening material. 2. 3. Harry's post also gave me a new idea. Daily Hexa-Trex | Nucleus Learning | Nucleus Learning. Unsolved Hexa Trex: Puzzle Page. Each week we'll upload a brand new puzzle, taken from the extensive library of Mathematic Teaching Journals. You can view all of our journals if you become a member today, for as little as £25 a year! Membership gives you access to the entire library, dating all the way back to issue 1. That is a LOT of puzzles AND articles AND research AND MATHS!
Puzzle 3 - Taken from MT199 Puzzle 2 - Taken from MT198 Puzzle 1 - Taken from MT195. STRIMKO™ - your streamy logic. Puzzle of the Week | ilovemathsgames. Printable Puzzles by KrazyDad. Math Fair Problems. Free Puzzlemaker. UKMT Teacher resource page. Index of Bongard Problems. 7puzzleblog.com | Home of the daily Maths Challenge. SET card game | setgame.com.