Nuffield Maths 2: Teacher's Handbook

This resource, from Nuffield Foundation, provides clear guidance on the content, methods and timing appropriate at each stage of the Nuffield Maths 5 - 11 project, which was developed to promote students' understanding of the concepts, as well as proficiency in the basic skills of mathematics.

The chapters in this handbook develop and extend the topics begun in Nuffield Maths 1 Teachers' Handbook and provide practical suggestions for teaching number, measurement and shape, using activities suitable for children with a wide range of abilities and backgrounds. Ideas for making worksheets, work-cards, charts, and models are also included, together with suggestions of how to deal with students' difficulties.

Number section includes:

Finding the difference ▪ Counting back ▪ Taking away ▪ Grouping ▪ Number bonds to 20 ▪ Counting on ▪ Ways of recording ▪ Difference by matching and counting ▪ Subtraction by counting back ▪ Taking away ▪ Recognising and counting equivalent sets ▪ Multiplication as repeated addition ▪ Arrays and the commutative law ▪ Division by sharing ▪ Division by repeated subtraction ▪ Division as the inverse of multiplication.

Quantities and shape section includes:

Sorting for shape and size ▪ Fitting shapes together ▪ Coins up to 10p and introduction of 50p ▪ Breakdown of coins, equivalent value ▪ Ways of measuring time ▪ Reading a dial ▪ Surfaces and faces ▪ Telling the time, hours, half and quarters ▪ Covering surfaces, leading to area ▪ Making amounts up to 20p ▪ Addition, simple shopping bills ▪ Symmetry, introduction ▪ Standard measure ▪ Metric measures, introduction and using ▪ Giving change ▪ Subtraction of money, taking away ▪ Telling the time, five minute intervals ▪ Measuring in metres and centimetres ▪ Simple calculations involving time ▪ Other units of time ▪ Cubes boxes and walls.