Here are some specific activities, investigations or visual aids we have picked out. Click anywhere in the grey area to access the resource. The options may go beyong the scope of this level of the Functional Skills requirements.
Brainbox A puzzle requiring the arrangement of numbers on the function machines to link the given input numbers to the correct output.
Broken Calculator Some of the buttons are missing from this calculator. Can you make the totals from 1 to 20?
Chain Challenge How fast can you perform all of the given operations without using a calculator?
Yohaku Puzzles Fill in the blank spaces so that the cells give the sum or the product shown in each row and column.
Multi-step Problems Solve multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.
Sum of Three Palindromes Every whole number can be expressed as the sum of three palindromic numbers like this...
Digital Darts An online darts game for one or two players requiring skill, strategy and mental arithmetic.
Perfect Magic Square Arrange the sixteen numbers on the four by four grid so that groups of four numbers in a pattern add up to the same total.
Zygo Interactive, randomly-generated, number-based logic puzzle designed to develop numeracy skills.
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