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Timed Maths Games and Anxiety: How to Keep Practice Safe

Whether timed practice causes anxiety is unresolved. These practical changes lower the pressure for children who find speed hard.

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Does Competitive Maths Help Children Learn? What the Research Says

Research supports brief timed practice once learners are accurate, and it favours cooperation over head-to-head rivalry. Here is what that means for tug of war.

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Dice Tug of War: A No-Tech Maths Version

No screen? Play maths tug of war with paper, two dice and a counter.

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How to Play Maths Tug of War

The complete rules, controls and settings for maths tug of war, explained in a few minutes.