Islamic geometric designs
The best thing to do with this topic is to watch this brilliant 5 minute introduction There are a...
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Pi Day 2016
Here are plenty of activities to use on pi day (March 14) – Monday in 2016. See also the...
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Bar method – updated May 2017
Examples of the bar method, mostly for secondary level here. Makes use of the excellent Thinking...
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Freehand Circle Drawing Competition
This is an ideal pi day activity (March 14) to involve the whole school. Who can draw the perfect...
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Five Maths Videos
Charles and Ray Eames produced 5 excellent maths videos as well as other videos that are still...
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Fraction Operations
GeoDraw – Jamtec (Stoke) Ltd, any Geoboard, real or virtual, or dotty paper can be used to...
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Tessellating Pentagons
These are the only 15 known so far, the last discovered in 2015. Explanation here. Picture source....
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The Unit Circle
Great fun making Sine wave from spaghetti. This GeoGebraTube file, diagram below, shows movement...
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Mathematical Mr Men
Saw these in a classroom the other day. There are 50 with more added occasionally. Links follow...
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Bowland Assessment Tasks
These 33 tasks are still as good today as when first brought out. An ideal way to look at solving...
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Standards Box: Software
Software for the Standards Box activities S3, S4 and S5 can now be found via our Improving...
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BMI (Body Mass Index)
BMI ActivInspire flipchart, BMI Smart Notebook, BMI ActivStudio Flip file and BMI pdf file...
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Language of the Month
Newbury Park Primary School’s Language of the Month. Excellent for hearing and seeing the...
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New Puzzle Page
The Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) has a new free online puzzle page. Started in...
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Mystic Rose
Classic problem from way back – but not clear how long it’s been around...
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Isometric Areas: Geodraw
Median’s activity isometric shape areas is ideal for use on our GeoDraw – Jamtec...
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Improving Learning in Mathematics
The IWB versions of the files have now been added to the website here along with other...
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Mastery (Assessment)
These materials are published by NCETM and OUP and are currently freely available here (though you...
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Fluency Without Fear
Excellent primary resources included from page 11 onwards. Article by Jo Boaler, Stanford, Jan...
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