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Year 8 Activities


Nine Nine Nine

Nine Nine Nine

Use the digits 1 to 9 to make three 3 digit numbers which add up to 999.

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Histograms

Histograms

Practise drawing and reading information from histograms displaying grouped data

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Walking Times

Walking Times

Questions about the time it takes to walk between places in London according to the Walking Tube Map.

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Calculator Words

Calculator Words

Turn your calculator upside down to make words out of the answers to these questions.

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Pythagoras Basics

Pythagoras Basics

A drill and practice self marking exercise on the basics of Pythagoras' theorem.

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Deconstructing Graphs

Deconstructing Graphs

Fill in the tables of values from the information that can be read from the given graphs.

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No Partner

No Partner

Find which numbers in a given list do not combine with other numbers on the list to make a given sum.

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Algebraic Perimeters

Algebraic Perimeters

Questions about the perimeters and areas of polygons given as algebraic expressions.

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Thrice

Thrice

A challenge to place all nine counters on the grid in such a way that they form exactly 10 straight lines, with each line containing three counters.

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Dump-A-Dice Race

Dump-A-Dice Race

An online board game for two players involving prime and square numbers and making choices.

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Matchstick Patterns

Matchstick Patterns

Create a formula to describe the nth term of a sequence by examining the structure of the diagrams.

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Pythagoras

Pythagoras

An online exercise to test your understanding of and ability to apply Pythagoras' Theorem.

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Times Square

Times Square

Practise your times tables with this self-checking multiplication grid.

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Express as a Percentage

Express as a Percentage

This self-marking quiz requires you to work out what one quantity is as a percentage of a second quantity.

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Simultaneous Shopping

Simultaneous Shopping

Find the cost of the individual items in shopping baskets (introduction to simultaneous equations).

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Express Percentage Puzzle

Express Percentage Puzzle

Drag the numbers into the percentage statements to make them true.

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Train Timetables

Train Timetables

An interactive exercise on reading train timetables and making time calculations.

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Circle Pairs

Circle Pairs

Find the matching pairs of circle diagrams and circle properties in this interactive online game.

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Numbasics

Numbasics

A daily workout strengthening your ability to do the basic mathematical operations efficiently.

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Tally Charts

Tally Charts

Read and draw simple tally charts to record and count different types of data.

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Missing Lengths

Missing Lengths

Find the unknown lengths in the given diagrams and learn some algebra at the same time.

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Volume

Volume

Use formulae to solve problems involving the volumes of cuboids, cones, pyramids, prisms and composite solids.

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Net or Not

Net or Not

Drag the nets into the corresponding panels to show whether they would fold to form a cube.

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M-Words

M-Words

Here are clues to some mathematical words all beginning with the letter M. Can you figure out what they are?

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Using A Calculator

Using A Calculator

Questions to test your ability to use a basic calculator, scientific calculator and a graphic display calculator.

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Dice Net Challenge

Dice Net Challenge

Drag the numbers onto the net so that when it is folded to form a cube numbers on opposite faces add up to prime numbers.

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Centexpression

Centexpression

Arrange the numbers from 1 to 9 to make an expression with a value of 100.

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Cube Face Meetings

Cube Face Meetings

Visualise the cubes formed by the nets and paint the three faces meeting at a vertex.

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Cubical Net Challenge

Cubical Net Challenge

Find all the ways of painting the faces of cubes using only two colours.

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Coloured Cube 3D

Coloured Cube 3D

Colour in the remaining faces of the nets of the cubes to match the rotating three-dimensional picture.

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Make Them Right

Make Them Right

Arrange the measurements next to the sides of the triangles so that each diagram is correct according to Pythagoras' Theorem.

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Watsadoo

Watsadoo

Rotate the cogs to catch the flying numbers in the correct sections.

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Rounding Snap

Rounding Snap

If the last card put down equals the previous card to the nearest whole number then all players race to shout SNAP!

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Fractions, Decimals, Percentages

Fractions, Decimals, Percentages

An exercise on converting fractions to decimals, decimals to percentages and percentages to fractions.

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Number Skills Inventory

Number Skills Inventory

A checklist of basic numeracy techniques that every pupil should know.

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Algebra In Action

Algebra In Action

Real life problems adapted from an old Mathematics textbook which can be solved using algebra.

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Measuring Units

Measuring Units

Check your knowledge of the units used for measuring with this self-marking quiz about metric and imperial units.

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Sum of Three Palindromes

Sum of Three Palindromes

Every whole number can be expressed as the sum of three palindromic numbers like this...

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Transformations

Transformations

Draw transformations online and have them instantly checked. Includes reflections, translations, rotations and enlargements.

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Standard Form

Standard Form

Test your understanding of standard form (scientific notation) with this self-marking quiz.

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Numerate

Numerate

Earn points by creating equations on the grid in this game of equations.

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Online Logo

Online Logo

An online version of the Logo programming language with 30 mathematical challenges.

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Sorting Units

Sorting Units

Order the ten containers according to their value (money, length and weight)

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Maths Crossword

Maths Crossword

An interactive mathematical crossword for you to do online. Find the missing words from the given clues.

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Divisibility Test

Divisibility Test

Practise using the quick ways to spot whether a number is divisible by the digits two to nine.

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Metric Units Pairs

Metric Units Pairs

Find the matching pairs of equivalent metric units in this interactive online game.

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Negative Magic

Negative Magic

Four partially completed magic squares containing negative numbers. Fill in the missing numbers.

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Recipe Ratios

Recipe Ratios

Learn the mathematics required to adapt recipes to serve a different number of people.

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Currency Conversion

Currency Conversion

Test your ability to convert from one currency to another with this self marking quiz.

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Superfluous

Superfluous

Find a strategy to figure out the values of the letters used in these calculations.

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Numskull

Numskull

Interactive, randomly-generated, number-based logic puzzle designed to develop numeracy skills.

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Vector Cops

Vector Cops

Help the cops catch the robbers by finding the vectors that will end the chase.

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One Minute Maths

One Minute Maths

A challenge to mentally add numbers together without making the classic place value mistakes.

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Jugs

Jugs

Can you make four litres if you only have seven and five litre jugs?

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One Digit Only

One Digit Only

Find expressions using only one digit which equal the given targets.

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Car Park Puzzle

Car Park Puzzle

Can you get your car out of the very crowded car park by moving other cars forwards or backwards?

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Shunting Puzzles

Shunting Puzzles

Move the trams to their indicated parking places in the shunting yard as quickly as possible.

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Lemon Law

Lemon Law

Change the numbers on the apples so that the number on the lemon is the given total.

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Pattern Clues

Pattern Clues

An interactive activity challenging you to reproduce a pattern of coloured squares according to given clues.

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Vowelless

Vowelless

Vowels have been taken out of mathematical words. Can you recognise them?

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Percentage Change

Percentage Change

Test your understanding of using percentages with this self marking quiz about percentage change.

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Partial Pyramids

Partial Pyramids

Calculate the missing numbers in these partly completed pyramid puzzles.

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Choose Your Average

Choose Your Average

This is a game for two players. You should know how to find the mean, median and range of a set of numbers.

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Rotational Symmetry Pairs

Rotational Symmetry Pairs

The traditional pairs or pelmanism game adapted to test knowledge of rotational symmetry.

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Solve To Find Fractions

Solve To Find Fractions

Find the value of the unknown in each of these linear equations. All of the answers are fractions

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Mine Find

Mine Find

Find where the mines are hidden without stepping on one.

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Pentadd Quiz

Pentadd Quiz

Find the five numbers which when added or multiplied together in pairs to produce the given sums or products.

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Shapes In The Stars

Shapes In The Stars

Join up the stars to find the hidden regular polygons.

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Clue Sudoku

Clue Sudoku

A different way to complete a Sudoku puzzle with clues available at every stage.

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Straight Line Graph Equation

Straight Line Graph Equation

An online exercise about the equation y=mx+c and the features of a straight line graph.

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Navigation NEWS

Navigation NEWS

Each visitor to this page has a unique maze constructed for them to find their way through answering questions about bearings along the way.

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If Then What?

If Then What?

Deduce multiplication and division results from a related calculation.

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Boxed In Numbers

Boxed In Numbers

The classic dots and boxes game with the addition of some positive and negative numbers which determine your score.

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Estimating Percentages

Estimating Percentages

Estimate the percentages represented by the diagrams.

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Pentransum

Pentransum

Mathematical questions with five possible answers. If you get 20 correct you can add your own question to the database.

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Cartoon Scatter Graph

Cartoon Scatter Graph

Place the cartoon characters on the scatter graph according to their height and age.

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The 12 Ways of Christmas

The 12 Ways of Christmas

How many different ways can you make the number 12 using the digits 1 to 4?

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Prime Pairs Game

Prime Pairs Game

A game for two players who take turns to select two numbers that add up to a prime number.

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Pick Up Sticks

Pick Up Sticks

If you were to pick up the sticks from this pile so that you were always removing the top stick what calculation would you create?

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Graphs of Vertical and Horizontal Lines

Graphs of Vertical and Horizontal Lines

Questions about the equations of straight line graphs that are parallel to the axes.

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Plane Numbers

Plane Numbers

Arrange numbers on the plane shaped grid to produce the given totals

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Logic Puzzle

Logic Puzzle

Solve this deduction logic puzzle to find who, where and what.

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Fractal Mosaic

Fractal Mosaic

Follow the precise instructions to create the ever-growing fractal mosaic pattern.

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Pu Wiang

Pu Wiang

A fewest-moves, counter-swapping challenge invented in northern Thailand.

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Thai Restaurant

Thai Restaurant

Calculate the restaurant bills for each of the tables in the Thai Restaurant.

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River Crossing

River Crossing

The traditional River Crossing challenge. Can you do it in the smallest number of moves?

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Plus

Plus

A number arranging puzzle with seven levels of challenge.

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Goal Products

Goal Products

Arrange the numbered footballs on the goal posts to make three, 3-number products that are all the same.

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Estimating Correlation

Estimating Correlation

Practise the skill of estimating the correlation of data on a scatter graph in this self marking exercise.

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Circles

Circles

Practise using pi to calculate various circle measurements. There are six levels of difficulty.

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Hexblock Hunter

Hexblock Hunter

The mathematical version of TV's Blockbusters game show. Find the mathematical words from the clues.

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Latin Square Puzzles

Latin Square Puzzles

Arrange the given digits to make a Latin square with the given row and column calculation results.

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Powten

Powten

Practise multiplying and dividing by powers of ten without using a calculator.

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Pi-Mon

Pi-Mon

Memorise the digits of pi with help from some musical notes.

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Correlation

Correlation

Arrange the given statements in groups to show the type of correlation they have.

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Xmas Ornaments

Xmas Ornaments

A hands on activity requiring students to arrange Christmas ornaments in a square box.

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Polygon Angles

Polygon Angles

A mixture of problems related to calculating the interior and exterior angles of polygons.

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Pyramid Puzzle

Pyramid Puzzle

Numbers in the bricks are found by adding the two bricks immediately below together. Can you achieve the given target?

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Algebraic HCF

Algebraic HCF

Exercises providing practice finding the highest common factor of algebraic expressions.

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Algebraic LCM

Algebraic LCM

Exercises providing practice finding the lowest common multiple of algebraic expressions.

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Factorising

Factorising

Practise the skills of algebraic factorisation in this structured online self marking exercise.

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Pancake Day

Pancake Day

Toss the pancakes until they are neatly stacked in order of size. Find how to do this using the smallest number of moves.

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Pentominoes

Pentominoes

Arrange the twelve pentominoes in the outline of a rectangle.

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Quick

Quick

Can you multiply a number by 1001 in your head? This exercise provides practice in this and other similar challenges.

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Optical Illusions

Optical Illusions

Don't let your brain be fooled by these geometric optical illusions in this online quiz.

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Where's Wallaby?

Where's Wallaby?

Find the hidden wallaby using the clues revealed at the chosen coordinates.

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