The Physics Lab — maths and physics puzzle rooms
Rooms full of broken inventions; fix each one by solving a maths challenge.
What you practise here
Ratio and proportion, measurement, estimation and calculation in a physical context — levers, gears, trajectories and speed.
How to play
Choose a room, read what's broken, and solve the challenge to get the invention working again. Each room holds several challenges in rising order of difficulty.
Who it's for, and why it works
Year 3 to Year 9.
When a calculation is the means to fix something rather than an end in itself, the right question gets asked — 'what do I need to know for this to work' — and that's exactly the shift from arithmetic to problem-solving.