A maths game that encourages students to remember the prime numbers below 100.  This game can only be played by using the keyboard.  Students may use it on a single PC to practice or their game could be projected on to the interactive white board for a class competition.  The game is kept intentionally difficult to allow a number of students to be able to take a turn in a short time.

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The game will begin paused.  Pressing one of the arrow (cursor) keys will start it.  Use the left and right arrow keys to steer the snake.  Points are scored by eating eggs with prime numbers on them.  There will always be 2 eggs on screen, one with a prime number, one without.
Each egg eaten will make the snake grow a little longer.  The game is lost by hitting the edge of the screen, eating an egg without a prime number on it, or biting part of the snake.  A lady bird will appear and move randomly, eating this will also end the game.
A score of over 150 can be considered a great achievement! 

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This teaching resource for your Interactive Whiteboard is useful for starters or plenaries in maths lessons where you would like to practise basic money addition with your students.  A list of items appears on a receipt.  When you feel ready the students are asked to total the prices.  It is useful for the students to use mini whiteboards with this teaching resource.

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Depending on the size of your room the values may be a little small to see from a distance so it is useful to read them out as they appear.  It works well using mini-whiteboards with a competitive element added to it.  Students hold their answer up as soon as they have calculated it.  The winner is the one who gets it correct first.

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Three teaching resources for maths lessons teaching graphs and coordinates.  Mark coordinates and join them with lines using the interactive whiteboard.  A one quadrant, two quadrant and four quadrant graph.  Choose one of the three following links for the different resources.

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Go to two quadrant graph

Go to four quadrant graph

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Click any whole number coordinate to mark it with a cross. 
If the Draw Line button is not highlighted tapping a cross will remove it.  If the Draw Line button is highlighted tapping a cross will turn it red.  This is the beginning point of a line.  Tap another cross for a line to be drawn to connect them.  Once a line has been drawn it can be removed by tapping it.
Clear All removes all lines and crosses.

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Two scrollable number lines for the interactive whiteboard.  One that covers negative numbers; one that starts at zero. 

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Use the arrow buttons to scroll quickly or slowly though the numbers. 

Click on a bar below a number once to highlight it.  Click it a second time for it to attach an arrow marking the number ten higher or ten lower depending on the option selected selected on the two lower Count buttons.

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