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Visited the Garden of Cosmic Speculation on its only day of annual opening this year (Sunday of first May bank … Read More

Introductory lesson plan for pie charts including pie chart blanks with 24, 30, 36, 40, and 50 spokes (pdf file). … Read More

Sites that offer isometric, square, circular geoboard paper (ie grid/dotty/spotty) include the brilliant nRich site and the excellent Illuminations site. … Read More

Updated May 2018 Trigonometry: use in finding heights These excellent materials were designed at Leeds Metropolitan University and are excellent for seeing … Read More

What do you and pupils see when you look at this image without the prompts? This image is about Factors … Read More

Here’s a great set of books on fractals Great to get your head round fractals. Purchasing info below. Click on … Read More

Plenty of material here to support work on circles including links helpful sites for definitions, constructions and the circle theorems. … Read More

Very useful 53 page booklet in same format as Year 1 to Year 6 booklets available for primary teachers. Links … Read More

Eight practical, evidence-based recommendations to improve outcomes in mathematics for 7 – 14 year olds. An excellent report that is … Read More

I’ve learnt a lot about mathematics and its history around the world from these books. Of these six books there … Read More

This helps with understanding how place value works as the figures move and the decimal point stays still when multiplying … Read More

Click 3 cards to make a true statement. There are always several answers! Note that this and others below require … Read More

A super activity where pupils can decide how to find the centre of a triangle: then you may have to … Read More

All published by ATM costing £50+ (£40+ for members). Recommend all of them, available individually from ATM at their shop. Maths … Read More

A classic problem from the 19th century that can used as an introduction to priority of operations (BIDMAS) and factorials. … Read More

Really useful 33 page guide in 7 sections offers A level, GCSE Higher and Foundation problem solving techniques as well … Read More

Two useful reports that show interconnections between mathematics and science. A good read for all science and mathematics teachers. The … Read More

Excellent resource from the Freudenthal Institute in the Netherlands, that can be used in a variety of ways. It uses … Read More

Ratio and proportion – a key activity: links fractions, direct proportion, straight line graphs, map scales, currency and unit conversions, … Read More

Fold or draw out the tangram parts from a one unit square. A popular activity. Create objects using all 7 … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Here are plenty of activities, many of them interactive, to use on pi day, (March 14) – Tuesday in 2017. … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Materials from the full recommendations from the 3 independent review groups are available: For poster see here.  For pamphlet here.  For … Read More

Ideal for use on an IWB or for use by pupils either at school or at home – but unfortunately … Read More

Articles on Maths from The Conversation – topical articles usually related to use of mathematics in our everyday life. Articles on … Read More

Update April 2017 Listen to or Download the More or Less 10 minute podcast on this story. Lego’s Next Fan-Designed … Read More

Here’s some helpful animations and other resources. By Lucas V. Barbosa – Own work College Help, Public Domain,  By Pi-unrolled: … Read More

An ideal activity for January, early February for KS2/3: adapted, with permission, from Activity Maths (Level 5): The Bird Box. … Read More

Flipchart for Supporting Subject Knowledge Enhancement or TSST colleagues. Pdf file with similar content. Research Report available (including summaries etc). … Read More

Frogs – a pdf file that gives background, how to solve the frogs problem, how to link it to solving quadratics, … Read More

The only file you need to show any fraction properly on an ActivInspire flipchart. Drag this flipchart page and adapt … Read More

Ideas for problem solving and mathematical reasoning using 2017 including: what is the smallest number that cannot be made with … Read More

Spiremaths Interactives Our own Spiremaths Interactives on Probability are great for KS3, though they cannot be used on iPads or iPhones. Nrich … Read More

Spire Maths Interactives for Probability (will not work on iPhones or iPad) found here. Wealth of material for KS3.

This simple idea works well and helps pupils with Reasoning skills. Lesson Notes (pdf file) Coloured Grids flipchart PowerPoint (1 … Read More

Update April 2017: Sean Hartford emphasises, again, what OfSTED really looks at. Update February 2017: Materials from the full recommendations from the … Read More

Equals Online – Mathematics and Special Educational Needs. Hadn’t realised until the MA sent a tweet around that this excellent … Read More

Although produced a while back both these reports contain useful information for specialist and non-specialist teachers of mathematics at all … Read More

These collections of lessons provide ready-made high quality lessons for the new mathematics curriculum even thought they were created some … Read More

If you like the Improving Learning in Mathematics materials then these are for you – some of the same team … Read More

If you like the Improving Learning in Mathematics materials then these are for you – some of the same team … Read More

An ideal way to look at solving 26 ‘real’ type of problems after you have looked at simpler examples such … Read More

Collection of Applying Mathematical Processes Practical Explorations. Good activities to follow the Bowland Assessment activities and Nuffield Practicals and to … Read More

Collection of 11 Applying Mathematical Processes lessons that let pupils follow through investigations. Good activities to follow the Bowland Assessment … Read More

Each of the 12 KS3 Resources contains 4 or 5 independent (sets of) lessons based around a common theme (the Activities). … Read More

Ada Lovelace the first computer programmer has the second Tuesday in October as ‘Ada Lovelace Day‘, which has been celebrated since … Read More

Something for the holidays. Note that the Guardian currently doesn’t allow free access to its crosswords on mobiles.  Source  Mobile … Read More

Interesting, informative and entertaining programme on data that introduced me to William Farr, Claude Shannon and Donald Davies, but did … Read More

Click below for direct links to: Conference information Report: A framework of core content for ITT Report: Developing behaviour management content … Read More

Basically an 8 page report (June 2016) building on ACME’s work in this area since 2010. The ACME report on … Read More

This report based on PISA 2012 results looks at how pupils might improve their ability to think quantitatively and solve real-life, … Read More

  The Compass, Ruler and Protractor flash file can be used live (but work cannot be saved). Unfortunately as a flash … Read More

There are a wealth of free materials that can be used to support this topic. Here are my favourites. The … Read More

Primary teachers should do less marking in mathematics! See: OfSTED myth busters Nick Gibb at ATL conference (April 2016) Marking … Read More

Here are plenty of activities to use on pi day (March 14) – Monday in 2016. See also the earlier … Read More

Examples of the bar method, mostly for secondary level here. Makes use of the excellent Thinking Blocks Modelling Tool. (I’m … Read More

   Makes some excellent points. Available here.    

This is an ideal pi day activity (March 14) to involve the whole school. Who can draw the perfect freehand … Read More

Stoke-on-Trent Mathematics Excellence Partnership Great to be there at the launch of this ambitious and important partnership and to know … Read More

Charles and Ray Eames produced 5 excellent maths videos as well as other videos that are still useful today. Eratosthenes … Read More

Published early February 2016, updated in March 2016, contains helpful guidance of ‘working at the expected standard’. Collect KS1 from here. Collect … Read More

GeoDraw – Jamtec (Stoke) Ltd, any Geoboard, real or virtual, or dotty paper can be used to support the understanding … Read More

These are the only 15 known so far, the last discovered in 2015. Explanation here. Picture source. The Guardian’s account. Account … Read More

Great fun making Sine wave from spaghetti. This GeoGebraTube file, diagram below, shows movement around unit circle as well as motion … Read More

Saw these in a classroom the other day. There are 50 with more added occasionally. Links follow here. Contain a … Read More

This helps with understanding how place value works as the figures move and the decimal point stays still when multiplying … Read More

A whole set of resources from the internet that include real-life examples related to powers and scale. Some great stuff. … Read More

A wonderful parable of curriculum development originally from the 1930s. Annotated version also available. Brought to my attention by colleague … Read More

These 33 tasks are still as good today as when first brought out. An ideal way to look at solving … Read More

We like these short clips.

  Want to find out more about Shanghai mathematics? Then head over to our page that provides some background, further … Read More

Software for the Standards Box activities S3, S4 and S5 can now be found via our Improving Learning in Mathematics page. … Read More

  BMI ActivInspire flipchart, BMI Smart Notebook, BMI ActivStudio Flip file and BMI pdf file available.

Newbury Park Primary School’s Language of the Month. Excellent for hearing and seeing the numbers spelt in other languages. Downloadable … Read More

The Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) has a new free online puzzle page. Started in August 2015 they state … Read More

Classic problem from  way back – but not clear how long it’s been around (couldn’t find anything other than suggestion … Read More

This 1947 instructional video of a mathematics lesson still has relevance today. Effective Classroom Management: How to Maintain Discipline In … Read More

Note that download of pdf in Chrome from National Archive can take time and you may need to refresh page.

Median’s activity isometric shape areas is ideal for use on our GeoDraw – Jamtec (Stoke) Ltd app for iPads (screenshot shown … Read More

The Conversation has many good articles about mathematics. This one focuses on maths anxiety and how parents with maths anxiety … Read More

  The IWB versions of the files have now been added to the website here along with other useful references.

These materials are published by NCETM and OUP and are currently freely available here (though you may have to log … Read More

This classic book written in 1964 and updated in 1982 is a must for anyone teaching mathematics to pupils of … Read More

Core Maths is aimed at those with C or better at GCSE who are not doing any other mathematics courses … Read More

See the Wolfram blog of 12 March for info about this and get your own pi day spiral at Mypiday.com/

An occasional blog that usually contains some interesting mathematics.

Once you have done this, make a square for another area (use integers only) – choose an area that is … Read More