Strategic STEM Learning Through Play

🧩 Game Overview (Quick Explanation for Students)

Players take turns placing colour matching triangle cards
together to form hexagon shapes

  • Fast-paced
  • Visually intuitive
  • Perfect

for both individual play and team tournaments

🏫 Why Use Trigahex in Your School?

  • Engages students from Year 2 to Year 12
  • Builds strategic thinking, collaboration, and spatial reasoning
  • Encourages mathematical pattern recognition, problem-solving, and systems thinking
  • Offers a fresh, fun way to integrate STEM learning - recognized as a top-tier product by Best of STEM evaluators

🔬 STEM Area - How Trigahex Helps

  • Science - Encourages observation, testing outcomes, and pattern recognition.
  • Technology - Introduces systems logic and rule-based interaction.
  • Engineering - Reinforces modular thinking and designing optimal structures.
  • Mathematics - Develops skills in angles, symmetry, spatial relationships, and scoring logic.
  • STEM authenticated badge
  • Best in STEM
  • 🏅 Recognised as a
    “Best in STEM” 2024–2025 product – awarded to only the top 5% of
    STEM-accredited resources.

🏆How to Run a Trigahex Tournament in Your Classroom or School

Trigahex tournaments are a fantastic way to engage students in strategic thinking, teamwork, and healthy competition. Teachers can host competitions within their own class or expand the event to include an entire year level. The format is flexible—students can compete individually (in games of 2 or 3 players) or in teams (with 4 or 6 players). Team members are not permitted to communicate during gameplay, which adds a unique challenge and reinforces the importance of planning and silent collaboration.

Teachers can decide how rounds are structured and whether games will use one, two, or three hexagons, depending on available time and desired complexity for each year. As the competition progresses, results can be shared in a central location to keep everyone informed and motivated.

Importantly, Trigahex is STEM-accredited and has earned the prestigious ‘Best in STEM’ recognition, awarded to only the top 5% of STEM products. Hosting a Trigahex tournament is not only fun and engaging—it’s a valuable way to support learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through strategic, hands-on play.

Recommended Setup

  • Use 1-hexagon games for speed and ease (ideal for beginners).
  • Best of 3 games format per round encourages persistence and adaptability.
  • Rounds can be individual or team-based, depending on class size and preference.

🎮 Game Format Options

Game Format: Solo - 2 or 3 Players

Perfect for classroom stations or small groups.

Game Format: Team Play - 4 or 6 Players (2-3 per team)

Encourages collaboration and communication. Great for upper primary and secondary.

🔁 Hexagon Play Options

1-Hexagon - Fast-paced, good for short rounds or beginner players.

2-Hexagons - Adds complexity, ideal for more strategic play.

3-Hexagons - Maximum challenge, suited for older students or championship rounds.

🏆 Advancement

Winners from each round advance to the next round.

Final rounds can be across classes to reach a grade champion.

📢 The Benefits of Trigahex

This game is not just fun - it’s STEM certified and challenges students to think critically.

Only 5% of educational products achieve the Best in STEM award - Trigahex is one of them.

Students LOVE playing this game - and they don’t even realise how much they’re learning.

🧠 Tips for Teachers

Start with a demo session: Play a quick round with 2 students in front of the class.

Encourage student referees: Older students can help younger students run their games.

Keep a leaderboard visible in the classroom or school corridor to build excitement.

Use class time or lunchtime clubs for regular play - easy to slot into existing programs.

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