Dominoes, Ludi and coding puzzles

Find these in the Library under Maths, and assign them like any activity.

🎲 Domino maths (Grades 1 to 5)

Count the dots, find the domino with a given total, choose the domino that joins the train, find the difference, multiply the two sides and, from Grade 4, stand dominoes up as fractions to compare them. A point for each question right first time.

🎲 Ludi race (Grades 1 to 5)

Pupils roll two dice and work out the sum (adding, taking away, or times tables). A right answer moves their counter on by the total of the dice; a wrong one means they stay put. They race Anansi to the finish, and landing on each other sends you back 3 squares. The score is the number of sums they got right.

🕷️ Coding puzzles (Grades 1 to 6)

Pupils build a program from blocks to guide Anansi to his web 🕸️, picking up every mango 🥭 and avoiding the trees.

• Grades 1 and 2: arrow blocks (up, down, left, right).
• Grades 3 and 4: arrows and loops: tap a block in the program to repeat it, so ➡️×3 means "go right three times".
• Grades 5 and 6: forward, turn left and turn right, like a robot, with loops.

Pressing ▶ Run shows Anansi following the program step by step, so pupils can see where it goes wrong, fix it and run it again (this is called debugging). They score a point for each puzzle solved within three runs, and get a 🌟 when their program is as short as it can be.