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DominoesAn interactive whiteboard resource to support any investigations using dominoes. In particular this resource was created to support classroom use of puzzles included in a book by Henry Ernest Dudeney in 1917. Books this old are in the public domain and so their contents can be distributed and built upon freely. Instructions Resource Printable Dominoes Puzzle 1 Puzzle 2 Word-WiseWordwise is a vocabulary building game. Students must guess the mystery word and call it out. The teacher slowly gives the students more 'hints' by showing additional letters. It can sometimes be noisy but it is always fun. Word-wise is an easy-to-edit PowerPoint file consisting of a cover sheet, instructions, some examples and a master sheet. This is one of many creative interactive activities available from John Short's wonderful website: Memory SquaresIt's the old memory cards game but now a team game for IWB. The class is divided into two teams. The teams must hunt for pairs of matching items by revealing just two squares at a time. Download this free PowerPoint template which is easy to edit for use in any classroom. This is one of many creative interactive activities available from John Short's wonderful website: Robo-QuizThis is a Powerpoint quiz template for a competition between two teams. After entering your own questions divide the class into two teams, each with a representative at the board. Students from each team must convince their representative of the correct alternative response. This is one of many high quality interactive activities (powerpoint and flash files) from John Short's marvellous collection, found at Mystery Maths Words (aka Hangman)A maths version of hangman. There are links to a range of maths dictionaries if the class doesn't know the meaning of the word. http://www.mathcats.com/explore/puzzles/mathmysterywords.html Five 10 second timersFive 10-second timers, each of which culminates in a bomb. And you can even have more timers if you wish by first choosing 'Disable Actions' in the upper right corner and copying and pasting one of the bombs. Six Team ScoreboardThis ActivBoard flipchart keeps the scores for up to six competing teams. Square ItPlayers take it in turns to choose on any of the given dots. The first player makes the chosen dots red and the second player or computer makes the chosen dots green. The winner is the first to have four dots of their colour that can be joined by straight lines to form a square. Squares can be any size and can be tilted. Is there a winning strategy? Jeopardy - Year 10 MathsA lovely implementation of the Jeopardy game. More Jeopardy games: Jeopardy - High School MathsA lovely implementation of the Jeopardy game. More Jeopardy games: 
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