Maths Heist (Online game)

Maths Heist Challenge

Let your students attempt a Heist! Except it’s an ethical heist, and they need to answer lots of maths questions along the way. BUT (as my students tell me) it is ‘really fun’.

The bulk of the game is around the heist planning for which you take the role of the ‘hacker’ who is also expected to pitch in with a lot of the mathematical queries that arise in planning. I focused this game towards Geometry and towards the upper end of Foundation GCSE / standard Higher GCSE content.

Maths content:

• Angles in parallel lines
• Missing dimensions (perimeter)
• Area of compound shapes
• Volume
• Area of a sector
• Pythagoras
• Trigonometry
• Bearings
• Vectors
• Circumference & Area of Circle
• Mass, density & volume
• Column vectors

I hope students (and maybe teachers) will find this fun, it would be a good light-hearted revision lesson or end of term lesson. I imagine most classes will take around an hour completing the game. If they finish early, they could be encouraged to think about designing their own!

Teacher Access

There is a ‘login’ on slide 1 which allows teachers access to a contents page from which you can jump to the different different challenges in one-click with the password. There are also answers on the contents page.