Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers. A FREE exemplar Four in a Row game on Mental Maths is available to try before you buy. Four in a Row games on five maths topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a discounted price. The level of challenge is aimed at foundation ability level GCSE students. Typical questions are; 0.077m = 7.7cm, 4 hours = 240 minutes, 36m² square = 6m x 6m

Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers. A FREE exemplar Four in a Row game on Mental Maths is available to try before you buy. Four in a Row games on five maths topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a discounted price. The level of challenge is aimed at higher ability level GCSE students but it will serve as a useful starter at A-level. As an indication of the difficulty, the hardest expressions to factorise are; x² + 2x - 35 = (x + 7)(x -5) 2x² + 7x + 3 = (2x + 1)(x + 3)

This presentation contains the integral proof for 22/7>π . A slightly obscure topic but I thought the presentation would be gladly received by someone somewhere.

Conway’s Game of Life is a cellular automaton, a zero player game in which the progress and future states are determined only by the start configuration. The presentation contains an animated description of the game’s rules, animated gifs and weblinks. The topic is beyond the school syllabus - perhaps to stretch students in Maths/ Sciences/ Programming/ Philosophy. I hope someone finds this handy - I couldn’t find an introductory presentation on this topic elsewhere. Thanks.

A bingo game designed to get the whole class using their brains to consolidate this topic. There are 22 graph-based questions, the answer and method is shown after each question. The questions are in difficulty order. Surprisingly competitive.

A fun competitive interactive whiteboard game in which two teams take it in turns to match pictures triangles to equations describing them. Requires students to be able to label sides and apply SOHCAHTOA. Suitable for GCSE and A-level. The game automatically scores and has a built in timer in the event of a draw. Students really enjoy the competitiveness, strongly recommended. This game won a Microsoft innovation award. A version containing an editor and picture pairs is now available to buy on TES resources. Visit my shop; www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/bennyjohn5.

A fun competitive interactive game in which two teams take it in turns to match velocity-time and displacement-time graphs to their descriptions. An interactive whiteboard or two remote mice works best. Suitable for GCSE and A-level. The game automatically scores and has a built in timer in the event of a draw. Students really enjoy the competitiveness, strongly recommended. This game won a Microsoft innovation award. A version containing an editor and picture pairs is now available to buy on TES resources. Visit my shop; www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/bennyjohn5

Very competitive, fast paced and really fun - my students favourite type of quiz. An interactive whiteboard quiz for two players answering questions simultaneously on each side of the IWB. This is the “creator” template allowing you to make new games with your choice of questions. This quiz won a Microsoft innovation award. Below are links to four free examples to try before you buy. Please note that performance may vary on some types of whiteboard. Energy Cells Forces Digestive system

A fun and competitive interactive whiteboard game in which two teams take it in turns to match tiles. An interactive whiteboard or two remote mice works best. The game automatically scores and has a built in timer in the event of a draw. Students really enjoy the competitiveness. This game won a Microsoft innovation award. Very strongly recommended for all ages. This template allows you to make your own interactive whiteboard games. Making your own game should take about five minutes. A bonus matching pairs pictures template is included so you can include pictures and diagrams in your games. Nineteen exemplar Matching Pairs Games are included with editing enabled to let you customise them. There are many free examples of Matching Pairs Games to try before you buy. Please visit my shop; https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/bennyjohn5 bennyjohn5@hotmail.com

Six splendid puzzles to display on your interactive whiteboard. These make great lesson starters and are an essential part of a teacher's toolkit. You probably already know the River Crossing puzzle. The puzzles are animated to make them very attention grabbing. No printing is needed; all the puzzles should be solvable without the need to write anything down. Very engaging and fun.