Maths games for secondary school

Secondary-school maths suddenly becomes abstract: letters, negative numbers and graphs appear, and many students go from understanding everything to not knowing where to start. The same thing nearly always fails: rules are learnt ("what is added moves across as a subtraction") without the picture that explains them.

These games put the picture first. In Balanza Algebraica you solve for x by removing the same thing from both pans, which is exactly what the rule says; in Caza la Función you move the line or the parabola until it fits the graph; in Salta la Recta integers are jumps to the left and right. With the picture clear, the rule stops being a trick.

What children practise

  • Linear equations
  • Linear and quadratic functions
  • Integers and rational numbers
  • Fractions and percentages
  • Statistics: mean, median and mode

Games · 10

Topics to study

With a summary, examples and a multiple-choice test.

In other years

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