Circumference of a Circle
Lesson visual of PowerPoint/ActivInspire Find the circumference of a circle from polygons...
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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...
Sequences
Activities where sequences are generated and next, 10th, 100th and nth terms are found. Animations...
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
Super activity from the original Standards Unit Improving Learning in Mathematics but now supplied...
Squares and Other Powers
Recognise/use different representations of squares and square roots, cubes and cube roots and...
Factors and Prime Factors
Recognise/use multiples, factors (divisors), highest common factor, lowest common multiple and...
Coronavirus and exponential growth
Here is an excellent YouTube video about Coronavirus and Exponential Growth, suitable for A-level...
The Book of Cross Numbers
A free book of 66 cross numbers (here) originally created with X-figure PC program (now available...
Primary Maths Curriculum (update January 2021)
It is essential that you know what mathematics needs to be taught, how best to teach it and how it...
Non-Specialist Teachers: Reference, Dictionary and More
Supporting subject knowledge These have been found useful by beginning teachers in training and...
Non-Specialist Teachers: Your Maths Subject Knowledge
Mathematics Subject Knowledge Audits/Self-evaluations and Tests These have been found useful by...
