Alex Morgan

A Parents' Guide to Maths Tug of War at Home

How to use short matches at home, keep them fun and know when to stop.

Why a tug of war is decided by the ground, and how to draw its forces correctly.

Four ways to play maths tug of war on paper with cards, dice or a skipping rope.

How to test touch, open full screen and solve common problems on classroom boards.

How to keep a match close and fair when players are working at different levels.

Tug Team is a well-known game series. Here is how it relates to the wider idea of maths tug of war.

A dated comparison of what popular maths tug of war sites showed on their public pages, and which suits which job.

A rope pulled either side of a centre line is a natural number line. Here is how to use it to teach integers.

$Two teams of children in a tug of war with a badge showing the fraction three quarters.$ Maths concepts

Practise fractions of amounts, adding, simplifying and comparing in a two-team tug of war, or write your own question set.

A tug of war set for older students: negative numbers, fractions, percentages, order of operations, algebra and roots.