Puzzles and games

Games to improve maths skills

Help key stage 3 and key stage 4 students develop their maths skills and have a bit of fun at the same time with these fun maths games, puzzles and activities. For KS5 games, click here.

 

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Support learning with maths games

The printable worksheets and activities in this collection reinforce core concepts outlined by the national curriculum for KS3 and exam specifications for GCSE. These games and puzzles provide a great opportunity to practise essential maths skills in a more engaging way.

Simply browse the collection to find the perfect activity for your chosen topic or year group.

Number games, treasure hunts and more

Our selection of number games reinforces key concepts at KS3 and GCSE. Loop cards help learners practise times tables and build arithmetic skills such as mental addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and very simple calculations with decimals and fractions. Treasure hunt activities are a fun way to practise using the laws of indices, collecting like terms and expanding brackets. Dominoes-style activities support understanding of mixed, improper and equivalent fractions.

For practising geometry skills, there are a number of fun maths resources to choose from. Printable 2D shape and 3D shape dominoes cards are great for KS3 maths classes. Or the treasure hunt and treasure trail activities make a great game for practising angle facts, transformations and bearings.

Activities based on the board game ‘Battleship’ provide a fun way to practise using coordinates, solving equations and expanding double brackets in algebra.

Simply browse the collection to find the perfect activity for your chosen topic or year group.