Category: Blog

Improve Pupils’ Problem-Solving using Metacognition

Kirstin Mulholland’s blog provides solid advice on how to improve pupils’ problem...

Sequences

Activities where sequences are generated and next, 10th, 100th and nth terms are found. Animations...

2022 Digits Problem (Update – 12 January)

The 4 digits of 2022 can be used to make numbers. You decide what to allow. Here we allow the four...

ATM MATs – Polygon and Polyhedra materials

There are over 1150 Mathematical Activity Tiles available as above and all except the Mini...

Puzzle and Other Old Mathematics Calendars

These calendars were available as a single purchase as I am reducing my maths library. Page...

Populations and the UK Census 2021

Sunday 21 March is Census day in England and Wales and continues the 10 year trend (except for...

Census 2021

Census Day in the UK is Sunday 21 March 2021. The image above provides 3 population pyramids for...

Circumference of a Circle

Lesson visual of PowerPoint/ActivInspire Find the circumference of a circle from polygons...

Prime Numbers and Insects

2021 is proving to be a special year in more ways than one. Not only is 2021 a product of...

Valentine’s Day Hearts

With Valentine’s Day on 14 February it’s topical to look at the mathematics of the...

The Bird Box

An ideal activity for January, early February for KS2/3: adapted, with permission, from Activity...

6 Square Challenge

Everything you need for this activity including presentation media of problem and solutions,...

2021: Making numbers using all the four digits

A super activity where we can make the numbers from 1 to 27 using a few simple rules. Good for...

2021: the product of consecutive primes

2021 = 43 x 47, the product of consecutive primes. Last happened in 1763 (= 41 x 43) and next in...

2021 is an Extra Special Year

2021 is going to be an extra special year! extra special years: Previous before 2021: 1763Next...

2021 is a Special Year

2021 is going to be a special year. In the last 100 years these have been the other special years:...

Baby Adult Ratio

Baby and adult skeletons drawn to the same height. See how a baby’s head is much bigger, in...

Body Maths: Scatter Graphs

Lesson on scatter graphs inspired by Africa Counts, Claudia Zaslavsky’s excellent book on...

Ada Lovelace Day 2020

Ada Lovelace the first computer programmer is celebrated on the second Tuesday in October as...

Writing Functions and Inverse Functions

Find the inverse of a function given by two operations on a number (one multiply by, the other...

Functions

Lesson where you are given four inputs and two operations (multiply and add or subtract) to create...

Dice Games

Interactive excel activity that simulates four games of rolling two dice. Originally part of the...

SS6 Representing 3D Shapes

Super activity from the original Standards Unit Improving Learning in Mathematics but now supplied...

SS3 Dissecting A Square