Smashmaths - Patterns and Algebra - Interactive Learning for the Australiam Mathematics Curriculum

Foundation - Count to and from 20 and order small collections. Students sort and classify familiar objects and explain the basis for these classifications. They copy, continue and create patterns with objects and drawings. Australian Curriculum Yr F Achievement Standard

Balloon Pop Math 1 - 10

Find the next number in order and pop the balloon it’s written on. Many levels.

Balloon Pop Order 1

Count the objects in the balloons and pop them in order from smallest to largest.

Caterpillar Ordering Mobile Friendly Version

Order numbers, progressing to ordering decimal and negative numbers. Reinforce knowledge of multiples, counting forwards and backwards including multiples such as 5's and 10's.

Fruit Shoot to 10

Count the hearts and shoot the balloon with the correct amount on it. Three levels to choose from.

Gingerbread Man Game Mobile Friendly Version

Counting, matching and ordering numbers games aimed at children who are learning to count and recognise the numbers and number words up to 10.

Ladybird Spots Mobile Friendly Version

Three different counting, matching and ordering maths games based on the numbers 1 to 10.

Number Sequences

Drag and drop the numbers in the gaps to order the numbers 1 to 10.

Pattern Matcher

Four rows with pictures will appear on the screen. Can you find the repeating pattern in the pictures at the top row and click the matching one from the rows below it? Two levels.

Paul Pattern

Paul shows you a pattern with three others to choose from. Find the one that shows the same pattern in a different way. After finding 20 patterns Paul will give you a dance show.

Seeing Patterns

Using the example shown, can you figure out which pattern comes next?

Teddy Numbers Mobile Friendly Version

Learn numbers and words to 15. It helps you learn to count and there's 6 levels.

Ten Frame NEW!

Thinking about numbers using frames of 10 can be a helpful way to learn basic number facts. The four games that can be played with this applet help to develop counting and addition skills.

Tesselate Decorate - Squares! NEW!

Decorate a room in a house with patterns made of squares. Select a tessellation of squares to make. Copy the pattern and see it cover part of the room. Finish decorating the room with two more tessellations. Create your own designs with the squares in the play space.

Tessellate Decorate - Rectangles! NEW!

Decorate a room in a house with patterns made of rectangles. Select a tessellation of rectangles to make. Copy the pattern and see it cover part of the room. Finish decorating the room with two more tessellations. Create your own designs with the rectangles in the play space.

Underwater Counting Mobile Friendly Version

We need to find the treasure! Can you help by counting the underwater creatures? Two levels: Count to 5 and Count to 10.

Year 1 - Count to and from 100 and locate numbers on a number line. Students continue simple patterns involving numbers and objects. Australian Curriculum Yr 1 Achievement Standard

Balloon Pop Order 2

Count the objects in the balloons and pop them in order from smallest to largest.

Balloon Pop Skip Counting

Choose the number that you want to skip count by and goodluck! Many levels.

Blast Off - Mobile Device Friendly NEW!

This game helps students identify and work with two-digit numbers. The oral questions in the first game mode requires students to find a specific number. In the second they are required to find a number in between two given numbers.

Chinese Dragon Game Mobile Friendly Version

Drag and drop activities help students to order numbers, beginning at a basic level and progressing to more exercises ordering decimal and negative numbers. Sequencing activities reinforce sequences and reinforce multiples.

Chopper Squad - Mobile friendly NEW!

Chopper Squad is an easier version of the mental maths game, Helicopter Rescue. Chopper Squad has different sized number grids, the largest of which is from 1 to 100. It is designed to help students with the concept of one more or less and ten more or less than a given number.

Christmas Maths

A huge selction of number activities using 1- 10. And Christmassy too!

Coconut Odd or Even - Mobile Device friendly NEW!

A range of games all of which focus on helping recognise numbers as odd or even. Throw the coconut as the selected numbers. You can choose to work with a range of numbers from 10 to 1000!

Forest Ordering

A fun ordering activity that explores basic number patterns. Three levels.

Fruit Shoot Group Counting

Select the number you want to practice and shoot the fruit with that numeral on it. Great fun!

Fruit Shoot Number Words

Read the word and shoot the fruit with that number on it. Are you ready for the challenge? Four levels up to 1000.

Give the Dog a Bone!

How good you are at finding numbers on a 100's number square? Make it quick because you're against the clock!

Hundreds Square Advanced - Mobile Device friendly NEW!

This hundred square is similar in function to the standard Hundred Square except you can choose the start number for the hundred numbers. With this you can model how patterns continue as the cross into the hundreds all the way up to 1000.

Mathepillar Mobile Friendly Version

Order falling numbers on a number line by positioning their caterpillar in the correct place to catch the numbers. There are four stages to the game and each stage presents a slightly more complicated number line or pattern. Print Butterfly Certificates if you get through all stages!

Musical Counters

Make some music by building up rhythms from four instruments. Add a whole number several times on the number line to make a pattern. For example, set up a sound pattern where a drum waits on the first note, and then plays on every fourth note.

Number Trains 30-50

Arrange train carriages according to numbers on their sides. The numbers are represented in a range of words, numerals, base-10 blocks or counting frames. Identify the numbers that come before and after starting numbers. Work with whole numbers from to 30-50.

Number Trains Skip Counting

Arrange train carriages according to numbers on their sides. Identify the numbers that come before and after starting numbers. Work with numbers in the range 1

Park the Pods

Great 100's number square game which helps you to count on and back, with 10's, across 10's and with 10's and 1's.

Rachel Rocket

Help Rachel Rocket count in twos to launch their rocket into space. Carry on the sequences by putting in the next numbers.

Skip Dot to Dot

Reveal the hidden picture by clicking the dots in intervals of 2, 4 and so on. Gets more challenging as you go.

Treasure Cliff Mobile Friendly Version

Can you find Golden Beard’s treasure? It’s hidden behind one of 100 numbered compartments in the face of a steep cliff. Follow the higher or lower arrows until you eventually find the treasure. You have ten tries!

Back to TopYear 2 - Identify the missing element in a number sequence. Students recognise increasing and decreasing number sequences involving 2s, 3s and 5s.
Australian Curriculum Yr 2 Achievement Standard

Adventure Sequence - BBC

Help Molly cross the bridge by jumping over the next number in the pattern. Three levels of difficulty.

Adventure Sequences

Help Molly cross the bridge by jumping over the next number in the sequence. Three levels.

Balloon Pop Order - 100

Pop the balloons in order from smallest to largest using 1 - 100. Many levels that get harder as you progress.

Chinese Dragon Game Mobile Friendly Version

Coconut Odd or Even - Mobile Device friendly NEW!

A range of games all of which focus on helping recognise numbers as odd or even. Throw the coconut as the selected numbers. You can choose to work with a range of numbers from 10 to 1000!

Gingerbread Man Game Mobile Friendly Version

Counting, matching and ordering numbers games aimed at children who are learning to count and recognise the numbers and number words up to 10.

Matching Maths

A sum appears with an answer but there is a missing number in the sum. 1000 point bonus per round if you get it right. Six rounds.

Musical Times

Let's look at counting rules and patterns on a number line. Once you've made a counting rule, you can check whether it matches the pattern on the number line by listening to it played back to you!

Number Fact Families - Mobile Device Friendly NEW!

Can you recognise fact families and inverse operations such as 3 + 5 = 8 and 8 - 3 = 5? This game which has differing levels of difficulty including subtraction, multiplication and division fact families.

Number Trains 90-120

Arrange train carriages according to numbers on their sides. Identify the numbers that come before and after starting numbers. Work with numbers in the range 90

Number Trains Skip Counting

Arrange train carriages according to numbers on their sides. Identify the numbers that come before and after starting numbers. Work with numbers in the range 1

Scale Matters 100s

Find the missing numbers on the number line. You can choose from two activities. 'What's the Number?' and 'Where's the Number?'

Scale Matters 10s

Find the missing numbers on the number line. You can choose from two activities. 'What's the Number?' and 'Where's the Number?'

Skip Count - Advanced

Choose the number you want to skip count by. Shoot the fruit with the missing number on it.

Skip Counting Advanced

Choose the number you want to skip count by then practice your skip counting by shooting the fruit with the correct number on it. Loads of different levels.

Skip Counting Squares

Choose the number to skip count by. You can choose from 1 to 9. The first two numbers appear on the number line. Find the numbers and click them.

Skip Counting with Sam

Help Sam cross the river by skip counting and stepping on the correct stones. If you press the 'Reset' button it will change the amount you skip by.

Spring Maths

Counting, ordering, sequencing, number bonds, addition, subtraction, multiplication... all set around the theme of Spring.

Talking Calculator

This calculator says the number you type in out loud, into the TRILLIONS! It also tells you what it is doing as you plug in equations for it to solve.

Back to TopYear 3 - Classify numbers as either odd or even. Students continue number patterns involving addition and subtraction. Australian Curriculum Yr 3 Achievement Standard

Balloon Pop Skip Counting

Choose the number that you want to skip count by and goodluck! Many levels.

Caterpillar Ordering Mobile Friendly Version

Order numbers, progressing to ordering decimal and negative numbers. Reinforce knowledge of multiples, counting forwards and backwards including multiples such as 5's and 10's.

Crack Hacker's Safe

Can you help Digit open the safe? Crack the code using your knowledge of number patterns.

Guess the Number!

How many turns does it take you to guess the number? Develops your estimation and halving skills. Put in your own numbers to make it as easy or hard as you like.

Hundreds Square Advanced - Mobile Device friendly NEW!

Line Dry

Complete different number patterns with increasing levels of difficulty. Gets harder as you go.

Musical Number Patterns:odds and evens

Let's find out how to make patterns with odd and even numbers. Once you've made a rule to create a continuing pattern, you can listen to it being played out on a number line!

Number Patterns Explained- BBC

A great explanation of number patterns and how they are made. Activities to complete along the way.

Number Trains Skip Counting

Arrange train carriages according to numbers on their sides. Identify the numbers that come before and after starting numbers. Work with numbers in the range 1

Poddle Weigh In

Evil Hacker has removed all the numbers from all the Poddles from Poddleville. Use the scale to balance things back to normal.

Puppies in Baskets

The puppies want to go to sleep but there needs to be an even number of puppies in each dog basket. Can you put the correct amount of puppies in each basket?

Scale Matters - Simple Units

Help a town planner to design a site plan for a park. Choose regions on a grid for different uses such as picnic tables, swings, sandpits or ponds. Use this tool to explore how to show fractions and display them in different ways.

Talking Calculator

This calculator says the number you type in out loud, into the TRILLIONS! It also tells you what it is doing as you plug in equations for it to solve.

Back to TopYear 4 - Describe number patterns resulting from multiplication. Students continue number sequences involving multiples of single digit numbers. They identify and explain strategies for finding unknown quantities in number sentences. Students use the properties of odd and even numbers. Australian Curriculum Yr 4 Achievement Standard

Car Pattern Quest

The computer is hiding a secret pattern using up to four of the six cars. Use the clues to solve the puzzle.

Find the Rule

A short introduction to number patterns and some great graphics that test your understanding of how number patterns work. Many activities.

Genius Boxing Mobile Friendly Version

Defeat Einstein, Bill Gates, Leonardo da Vinci, and Isaac Newton in boxing! An equation appears. Click on , or = to make the number equation true. Be careful though, each round gets much harder!

Line Dry

Complete different number patterns with increasing levels of difficulty. Gets harder as you go.

Make 24

Arrange the playing cards and maths signs so they equal 24. Sounds easy? Give it a try... Many levels.

Number Balls

Click on the balls starting with the smallest number and work up to the biggest. Includes negative numbers. Many levels.

Number Fact Families - Mobile Device Friendly NEW!

Order of Operations

Solve the problem by clicking on the right operation according to the order of operations rules. For example, if you get 2 + 5 X 3 then first click the X. On the next row that appears, click the + sign.

Pattern Chomper

Start by choosing the number range to practice: up to 10, up to 100 or up to 1000.

Prime Numbers NEW!

5 prime number bubbles and 5 non prime. The challenge is to burst all of the primes in as short a time as possible. by shooting the fruit with the correct number on it.

Skip Counting Advanced

Choose the number you want to skip count by then practice your skip counting by shooting the fruit with the correct number on it. Loads of different levels.

Back to TopYear 5 - Describe, continue and create patterns with fractions, decimals and whole numbers resulting from addition and subtraction.
Australian Curriculum Yr 5 Achievement Standard

1 - 100 Interactive Chart

Interactive 100 number chart that's great for displaying number patterns, skip counting and to learn multiplication tables. Students can print their charts too!

Cassowary Fractions NEW!

Help a park ranger build enclosures for sick and injured birds in a wildlife sanctuary for cassowaries. Divide shapes like circles, semicircles, hexagons and squares into sections (fenced enclosures). Group the enclosures to form a quarantine zone for birds with particular problems then move the birds in.

Hundreds Square Advanced - Mobile Device friendly NEW!

Number Patterns - BBC

Use your number skills to crack the Mission codes and defeat the evil roboids! Takes a while to load but it's great fun

Stop that Creature!

Hacker has created 10 clones and sent them to destroy the powerstation! You stop the clones when you name the rule that runs the machine. Many levels.

Weigh the Wangdoodles NEW!

Wangdoodles live on planet Algebra 5. They test snacks made by Dr. Decay. Unfortunately they shrink when eating anything hot and grow when eating anything cold. Can you figure out what each Wangdoodle weighs?

Back to TopYear 6 - Recognise the properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers. Students describe rules used in sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals. They also write correct number sentences using brackets and order of operations.
Australian Curriculum Yr 6 Achievement Standard

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