Learn the powers of two up to 2048!

Learning the sequence of doubling numbers (powers of two) is a worthwhile pursuit for children of all ages. This game is lots of fun to play, does not require the player to already know the doubling sequence, but presents the numbers in context and in a way that will help the child learn and recognise them.

Play the game little and often! Do not spend hours and hours playing but do spend ten minutes every day working to improve your score. Your personal best score is shown at the top right of the screen and this provides a target for you to try and beat. Earn trophies as you achieve the high score tiles.

Enjoy playing the game and learning more mathematics as you do.

Comment recorded on the 28 May 'Starter of the Day' page by L Smith, Colwyn Bay:

"An absolutely brilliant resource. Only recently been discovered but is used daily with all my classes. It is particularly useful when things can be saved for further use. Thank you!"

Comment recorded on the 28 September 'Starter of the Day' page by Malcolm P, Dorset:

"A set of real life savers!!
Keep it up and thank you!"

How the scoring works: Every time two tiles merge, the value of the new tile is added to your score. Joining two 2s makes a 4 and earns 4 points, joining two 64s makes a 128 and earns 128 points, and so on. Simply moving tiles without making a merge scores nothing, so the bigger the tiles you create, the faster your score grows. Building a 2048 tile from 2s alone earns about 20,000 points along the way, because every tile that went into it was also scored when it was made. Your best score is saved on this device and shown next to your current score. Trophies are awarded for the largest tile you make (128 for Level 1, doubling for each level after that) and the trophy record shows the score of the game in which you earned it.

This game is adapted from code created by Gabriele Cirulli (http://gabrielecirulli.com) based on 1024 by Veewo Studio and conceptually similar to Threes by Asher Vollmer. The details of the copyright notice can be seen here.

In the video below Steve Mould and James Grime discuss 2048 strategy and Maths.

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Bar chart showing the number of trophies earned and claimed for each level.