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Maths in Town Squared: Maths and gameplay
Town Squared is designed to explore The Big Ideas in Maths, address maths anxiety, and apply mathematical thinking to problem solving. Find out more about our approach.
Maths in Town Squared: maths on the Building Site
Children move materials onto platforms so both sides balance, and send it to builders on the floors above. An equation under the platform updates as they add or remove materials to work out the answer. Repeated successful balancing wins a quest ticket.
Maths in Town Squared: shapes and area in Sprite flights
Children help the clean sprites go home by plotting out 2D shapes of a specified type, and tracing these in the sky. These puzzles explore shapes and area. Making enough of the right types of shapes earns a quest ticket.
Maths in Town Squared: balance and equivalence on the Building Site
Children move materials onto platforms so both sides balance, and send it to builders on the floors above. An equation under the platform updates as they add or remove materials to work out the answer. Repeated successful balancing wins a quest ticket.
Maths in Town Squared: combining numbers in the Airport
Children combine numbers on a grid to help power up an airship. Each grid presents different ways to add, subtract or think in multiples. Finding enough combinations sends a surge of power to the waiting airship and eventually earns a quest ticket.
Maths in Town Squared: fractions and measurement in the Factory
Children measure ingredients to make items in the Factory using fractions, decimals and percentages, and by converting between them. Success means they can keep some of the items they make, to use in quests to help their quest team get a better result.
Maths in Town Squared: maths in the Factory
Children measure ingredients to make items in the Factory using fractions, decimals and percentages, and by converting between them. Success means they can keep some of the items they make, to use in quests to help their quest team get a better result.
Maths in Town Squared: maths in Sprite flights
Children help the clean sprites go home by plotting out 2D shapes of a specified type, and tracing these in the sky. These puzzles explore shapes and area. Making enough of the right types of shapes earns a quest ticket.
Maths in Town Squared: maths in the Airport
Children combine numbers on a grid to help power up an airship. Each grid presents different ways to add, subtract or think in multiples. Finding enough combinations sends a surge of power to the waiting airship and eventually earns a quest ticket.
Maths in Town Squared: Blocks as in-game currency
Some children struggle to translate their maths skills to real world problems, like managing money. Town Squared uses a virtual currency to explore the ideas of value, earning, saving, spending, investing, sharing and giving.
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