Links

Awele: The awele game is present in all Africa. Wari, solo, mankala, awèlé... names change: more than 200 have been enumerated! The goal of the game is to capture the greatest number of seeds. Seeds having no distinct colour for each camp, they belong to the two players during the play. But each player is brought to capture some, he places them then in its reserve.

http://www.interjeux.net/jeux/awele/index_en.html

Tic-Tac-Toe

http://www.interjeux.net/jeux/morpion/index_en.html

Gomou: First to get 5 in a line wins!

http://maxpages.com/applets/Gomoku

Tank is an adaptation of the classical 'Artillery Duel'. Great for working with angles.

http://colbycc.edu/www/math/tank/title.htm

Nim: Players take turns removing fruit or sticks from the table, in accordance with the rules. The player who takes the last from the table is the winner.

http://www.2020tech.com/fruit/ or http://www.archimedes-lab.org/atelier.html?http://www.archimedes-lab.org/page17b.html

Mathematical secret of Nim http://www.csm.astate.edu/Nim.html

Bridges: Click on a white cell to draw a red line across before the computer can draw a blue line down.

http://maxpages.com/applets/Bridges

Towers of Hanoi: The goal is to move all the discs from the left peg to the right one. Click and drag with the mouse to move a disc. Only one disc may be moved at a time. A disc can be placed either on an empty peg or on top of a larger disc. Try to move all the discs using the smallest number of moves possible.

http://www.mazeworks.com/hanoi/

Fraction Track: The first player starts by moving one or more blue markers along the tracks, either forward or backward, so that the positive and negative distances moved by all markers add to the amount shown in the fraction box.

http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap5/5.1/index.htm

Building a Brick Wall - Dominos: Your Brick-Wall company wants to produce a catalogue of designs to show to customers. If they miss out on a design then a competitor may offer it. So your company had better include all the designs you can. The brick walls are to be two units tall. The bricks are all the same size, 2 units by 1 unit

http://mathforum.org/alejandre/frisbie/poly.html

Brick Walls and Fault Lines – Dominos: You have found a masonry pattern without any fault lines. This means that every grid line (that is, the lines, both horizontal and vertical, spaced at the width of one domino and extending perpendicularly between parallel edges) of the rectangle intersects at least one domino. You found this special masonry pattern by considering first one brick, then two bricks and you continued until you found a fault free pattern. Continue the investigation.

http://mathforum.org/alejandre/frisbie/bricks.html

Traffic Jam: There are seven stepping-stones and six people. On the three left-hand stones, facing the centre, stand three of the people. The other three people stand on the three right-hand stones, also facing the centre. The centre stone is not occupied. Everyone must move so that the people originally standing on the right-hand stepping stones are on the left-hand stones, and those originally standing on the left-hand stepping stones are on the right-hand stones, with the centre stone again unoccupied.

http://mathforum.org/alejandre/frisbie/jam.html

Game of Fif: This is a two-person game. The board consists of a row of nine squares numbered 1 through 9. Players take turns selecting squares. The goal of the game is to select squares such that among those selected by a single player there will be a triplet that sums up to 15 (hence the name Fif.)

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/blue/fif.shtml

Polygon Capture: This activity requires students to classify polygons according to more than one property at a time. So students must move from a simple description of shapes to an analysis of how properties are related, all in the context of an enjoyable game.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/lessonplans/6-8/capture/index.html

Euclid’s Capture: Input a positive difference of any two numbers already present on the board. The loser is the player unable to make a move.

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/blue/EuclidAlg.shtml

Set: The object of the game is to identify a 'Set' of three cards from 12 cards laid out on the table. Each card has a variation of the following four features: Colour, symbol, number and shading

http://www.setgame.com/set/index.html

Collections

Collection of Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles from Cut-the-Knot

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/games.shtml

Interactive Mathematics Activities from Cut-the-Knot

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml

NCTM Illuminations

http://illuminations.nctm.org/mathlets/index.html

Resource Room: A sharing place for mathematics resources from The University of Regina

http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/RR/

A collection of Commercial Online games from Archimedes-lab games. An interesting site for optical illusions, puzzles, etc.

http://www.archimedes-lab.org/atelier.html?http://www.archimedes-lab.org/page17b.html

Numbers and Operations Games

http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/RR/database/RR.09.99/sawatzky1/teachnotes-numb.html#cardgames

Some Free Geometry Software

KaleidoTile 2 - Explore tessellations of the sphere, Euclidean plane, and hyperbolic plane while creating colourful works of art. Decorate your tessellation with your own favourite images, or select images from the library provided.

http://geometrygames.org/KaleidoTile/index.html

Kali lets you draw symmetrical patterns based on any of the 17 tiling groups. Even the youngest children enjoy Kali. In particular, Kali does not assume the user knows how to read. Every work is a masterpiece! Kali lets students systematically explore the wallpaper, frieze and rosette groups.

http://geometrygames.org/Kali/index.html