A resource from the Mathematics Centre at the University of Chichester which gives some examples of students' work and a variety of activities to develop mathematical skills.

Examples of students’ work from a wide range of ages and attainment. This section contains an overview of the project...

Eight more examples of students’ work from a wide range of ages and attainment, produced by the Mathematics Centre at the University of Chichester. They are accompanied by appropriate questions and activities all of which illustrate some characteristics of the type of work the project sought to promote.

Each...

A National Strategies booklet describing teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics in its broadest sense beyond National Curriculum level five. Each area is covered by looking at teaching strategies, activities, progression and addresses typical algebraic misconceptions.

The booklet...

This National Strategies booklet describes teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities in its broadest sense beyond national curriculum level five. This booklet covers: * place value; * ordering and rounding; * fractions, decimals, percentages and their equivalence; * ratio and...

This booklet from National Strategies describes teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities beyond level five.

This booklet covers:
* geometric reasoning (lines, angles and shapes);
* using symmetries, reflections, rotations and translations;
* enlargement...

This National Strategies booklet describes teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities beyond level five.

The activities described in this supplement build upon and develop activities suggested in Teaching mental mathematics from level five: algebra and are designed to...

This booklet from the National Strategies describes teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities beyond National Curriculum level five. The activities described in this supplement build upon and develop activities suggested in Teaching mental mathematics from level five: geometry....

This National Strategies booklet describing teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics abilities beyond National Curriculum level five. The activities described build on and develop activities suggested in Teaching mental mathematics from level five: number.

The resource includes...

This National Strategies booklet describing teaching approaches that can be used to develop mental mathematics in its broadest sense beyond national curriculum level five. Each area is covered by looking at teaching strategies, activities and progression charts.

This booklet looks at the Data Handling Cycle...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand applying Pythagoras’ theorem in an unfamiliar situation and calculating areas of circles.

During the Edo period (1603-1897) of Japanese history, geometrical puzzles were hung in the holy temples as offerings to the gods and as challenges to...

The resource has three parts.

Continue the patterns 1 provides tessellating patterns produced on squared dotted lattice paper. Students are required to continue each of the patterns.

Continue the patterns 2 provides tessellating patterns produced on isometric dotted...

This resource contains eight instant maths ideas, designed to provide students with the opportunity to investigate which polyominoes tessellate, which triangles tessellate, which quadrilaterals tessellate, design their own shape that tessellates and find tessellating patterns in art and nature. Student resource...

This puzzle involves spatial reasoning relating to nets. Some nets of a tetrahedron are shown with different arrangements of colours. The challenge is to determine which one results in a different arrangement of colours when folded. This resource is suitable for Key Stage 3.

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This resource, from the Maths Careers website, explores decimal numbers, predicting terms of a sequence and geometrical pictures and was produced in conjunction by More Maths Grads and the Queen Mary University of London.

The activity invites students find the maths hidden in everyday images, before...

The Highway Code: SMILE card 1314 is a booklet of activities using the signs found in the Highway Code as a context. The booklet begins with a page of road signs. The first task asks students to categorise the signs by placing then into a two way table based upon their shape and their colour. The...