The Number Gym

The Number Gym v3.0

Age Range

5 to 13 yrs

Ability Range

Key Stages 1, 2+

Activity Types

Games, Challenges &
Teaching tools

Number of Activities

Highlights

Flats, Rods & Cubes (4)
Giving Change
Make it Balance (2)
Ordering Data
Venn Diagrams (3)
The Great Turtle Race
Turtle Tracks drawing program

Price

Site: £195
Single User: £35
Run from Disk: £29

The Number Gym v3.0

What's new in The Number Gym?

Firstly the price which has come down to £195!
The Number Gym v3.0 provides a stimulating set of 63 age-neutral teaching tools, games and challenges across Key Stages 1 and 2. The teaching tools are ideal for interactive whiteboards, enabling teachers to demonstrate visually problematic concepts such as fractions and decimals.
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 6 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.
Our earlier version 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 even better!

Demo Activities

	First click the Start button below the turtle. Now drag 2 cards in the bottom row into the frames to make a sum whose answer is on one of the red balloons. (You can change the operator by clicking on the +,-,x or ÷) Best played in an ICT Suite with all players selecting the same game and starting on a given signal. Each player is then presented with their unique challenges but who can drive the turtle to the winning line first!
Choose your level of difficulty and then click Go to receive your first challenge. Can you make your target within the given number of clicks? Strategy and creative thinking are required.
	The default screen shows fractions as part of a strip. Changing the numerator on the left will show different numbers of eighths (e.g. 6/8; 7/8 8/8). It will also be helpful to continue this sequence so that pupils can see what is meant by improper fractions such as 5/4, 7/4 etc. When this sort of idea is being demonstrated it would be less distracting to have the other (blue) strip hidden along with its fractions. Stop at, say 12/8 and ask them to describe what 16/8 will look like and when will there be three completely red strips? Exploit the ability to hide the image by asking them to draw a sketch of what they think 7/4 will look like.

Video Demo

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".

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