Category Archives: Maths

Here’s another link to help you to develop the speed with times tables facts. Try it out to help you get quicker at the core multiplication and division facts.

Here’s another game that our ‘testers’ thought was fun and would make practising multiplication facts (and other maths facts) more fun. Let me know if you find other free games that are good.

This is the archery multiplication game that some of you asked for. I hope you have fun getting speedy with your tables! Perhaps you could post a comment with your high score for others to beat? (Make sure you only use your nickname.)

This game allows you to practise quick maths facts including multiplication facts, decimals and fractions and many more. Can you find the answers and dodge the alien attack?!

This site offers online practice of the kinds of questions that are covered in the arithmetic paper for Year 6. You can choose the number of questions to have a go at and can take it at your own speed. Answers are given straight after you’ve had go at the question so you will know straight away what you need to work on.

Click on the image to go to the site.

Here is quite a fun monster chasing game to practise converting decimals and fractions quickly (before you get eaten!) You can play alone against the computer or as a two-player game against a friend. There are five different levels to the game so it can get quite challenging. Let me know how you get on and if you beat the monster! Click on the image to the left to go to the game.

Here is a great way to challenge yourself to become more confident at finding a percentage of a number. Click on the image to go to the activity. You can move the arrow on the number line to get a new percentage and enter the quantity you think in the box below. The great thing about this is you can try it out at a level best for you and then, as you become more confident, explore some more challenging percentages.

Here’s the multipliers game we tried this week which got our brains going! Click on the image to go to the NRICH site where the game is. Challenge yourself to see how few tiles you need to open to find the multiplier headings. Is there a good strategy when you are choosing the position of the tiles you open first? We were beginning to develop a thought that opening the four diagonals was a good idea… is that right? Are there any numbers that you think would be especially useful to find on one of the tiles? Why?

If you have any thoughts about the game and your ideas on it. Post a comment to explain your ideas and help others think about it.