Area, perimeter, volume & surface area
Area and volume carry around 10% of the marks on IGCSE and GCSE papers, on every board and tier. Ten stations take students from area of 2D shapes to sectors, cones, spheres, similar solids and past-paper style problems (compound solids, melting and recasting, frustums), with Foundation/Core and Higher/Extended levels.
📘 Revision guide: Arc length and sector area
20 short lessons, each labelled with the exams it is for, with a worked example and a quick check.
Ten stations, fresh questions each visit, with hints that fade.
Mixed questions from every station with a station-by-station report.
Open Teacher Options in the game to choose skills and levels. Nothing is uploaded: progress stays in each student's browser, so no accounts or data-protection paperwork are needed.
Every station is matched to the current specifications. Teacher options switch between Foundation/Core and Higher/Extended questions.
| Topic | GCSE (AQA, Edexcel) | Cambridge IGCSE 0580 |
|---|---|---|
| Area and perimeter of 2D shapes | G16 | C5.2 / E5.2 |
| Circles, arcs and sectors | G17, G18 | C5.3 / E5.3 (Core: sector angle a factor of 360°) |
| Compound shapes and parts of shapes | G16, G17 | C5.5 / E5.5 |
| Volume and surface area: prisms, cylinders, cones, pyramids, spheres | G16, G17 | C5.4 / E5.4 |
| Units of area, volume and capacity; density | G14, N13, R11 | C5.1 / E5.1 |
| Similar shapes: lengths | G19 | C4.4 / E4.4 |
| Similar shapes: areas and volumes | G19 (Higher only) | E4.4 (Extended only) |
| Compound solids, melting and recasting, pouring water | G16, G17 | C5.5 / E5.5 |
| Frustums; density from displacement | G17, R11 (Higher) | E5.5; C/E1.12 (formula given) |
Three examples of the kind of question the game generates, from Foundation/Core to Higher/Extended.
Sector Slice · Foundation / Core
Answer: arc 6.28 cm, area 28.3 cm²
Pointed Solids · Foundation / Core
Answer: 302 cm³ and 188 cm²
Scale Lab · Higher / Extended
Answer: 1080 cm³ and 576 cm²
Yes. It is free to use, with no account, no adverts and no tracking. Progress is saved only in the student's own browser.
GCSE Foundation and Higher (AQA and Edexcel) and Cambridge IGCSE 0580 Core and Extended. Teachers choose the level in Teacher options.
Yes. The Exam Problems station has the multi-step types that appear on IGCSE and GCSE papers: compound solids, a sphere melted into a cylinder, water poured into a tank, boxes packed into a container, and at Higher, frustums and density from a falling water level. Every lesson shows which exam and tier it is for.
Either. Students can use the calculator value or 3.142, as Cambridge allows, and answers given in terms of π are marked as exact.
Yes. It runs in any modern browser on laptops, Chromebooks, tablets and phones, and works on a classroom board.
Yes. Matching Mathwright worksheets and exam-style questions with full worked solutions are on the Resources page.
Printable practice and exam-style tests on the same topic, with full worked solutions.
Number
Practice for Foundation and Higher tiers, with full worked solutions.
Free practice: Area & Volume Workshop
Geometry, trigonometry & vectors
Area, volume and surface area worksheets in the style of Paper 2 and Paper 4, with mark schemes.
Free practice: Area & Volume Workshop
Printable IGCSE and GCSE resources from Mathwright: worksheets, exam-style practice and full worked solutions.
Coordinates & the four quadrants
Travel from Base Camp to the Treasure Chest by reading, plotting and moving between coordinates in all four quadrants.
Midpoint & length of a line segment
Six stations on the midpoint and length of a line segment, missing points, exact surd lengths and dividing a line, with past-paper question types.
Gradient & straight-line graphs
Six stations covering every straight-line question on IGCSE and GCSE papers: gradient, drawing graphs, y = mx + c, parallel and perpendicular lines, and real-life gradients.
