The Number Gym
Age Range
5 to 13 yrs
Ability Range
England/Wales: KS1,2+
Scotland: P1-P7, S1
Activity Types
Games, challenges, teaching tools and creative explorations
Number of Activities
71
Highlights
More or Less Equal? (x2)
Understanding Pie Charts (x3)
Smart Operators (x2)
Flats, Rods & Cubes (x4)
The Great Turtle Race
Turtle Tracks drawing program
Price
Online subscription to NumberGym Maths:
Schools: from £95 p.a
Family/Tutor: £55 p.a.
The Number Gym

What's new in The Number Gym?

The Number Gym now contains 75 separate programs. Each one is age-neutral, displays clear, simple mathematical images without distractions to enable teachers to teach the concepts and then offer a range of exciting challenges and games across Key Stages 1 and 2. Ideal for interactive whiteboards.
Most activities can be personalised across a wide ability range simply by using the tick-boxes and drop-down windows.
The Number Gym also encourages creative investigations in maths with its open-ended activities, especially with its logo turtle graphics module.
The one-off site licence price includes six months online access via our website so staff and pupils can access our software at any time and engage their parents in the games and challenges too. After the first six months, continued online access may be optinally purchased at a very reasonable price.
A much earlier version of this product won the Pirelli Internet Award for the Communication of Mathematics "for its ability to provide children, by means of interactive tools and games, with an informal and fun approach to the complex world of mathematics."
This version is SO much better. Take a trial?

Our Latest Activities
Pairs Equivalent Fractions

Pairs can be played with all the cards either revealed or hidden at the start. Two players or teams take turns to select 2 cards of equivalent value. The winner is the player with the most pairs.
Use the options button to change the level of difficulty:
Level 1: 1 half, 1 quarter, 1 third
Level 2: 1 quarter, 1 half (sometimes shown as 2 quarters), 3 quarters
Level 3: 2 thirds, 3 quarters, 2 fifths, 3 fifths
The program selects random colours and rotation of shapes.

This program offers a progressive series of counting challenges which involve counting on and/or back in 1s and 10s, counting in decimals and counting across negative numbers. It can be used with the whole class, small groups or individually.
With whole-class and group activities the pupils can count aloud or in their heads and then just say the number they arrived at when prompted. Click 'keep my score' for a more individual approach where the pupil inputs the answer and clicks the tick to check if they are right.

Hoop Counting  Challenge

Pirelli International Award 2007

The Number Gym won the Pirelli Internet Award for the Communication of Mathematics
"for its ability to provide children, by means of interactive tools and games, with an informal and fun approach to the complex world of mathematics".That was way back then, you should see it now! Take a trial?