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 collection of materials were all produced by Frank Tapson for use in the mathematics classroom. The collection consists of two sub collections.

Exercises and Practice contains nine resources, each resource containing a number of activities which can be used in a variety of ways in the...

This collection of resources from the National Strategies includes resources for activities and lessons that make effective use of ICT in teaching and learning secondary mathematics. The resources include the use of spreadsheets, programs, dynamic geometry software, graph plotting software, video and internet...

A set of tried and tested curriculum resources which aim to improve students' enquiry skills and increase engagement.  

This video resource from Teachers TV features AST mathematics teacher Gary Morris, from William Parker Sports College in Hastings, as he delivers a Key Stage Four GCSE revision lesson which is intended to assess students' understanding of a recently completed module on statistical diagrams. Students work in teams...

This task assesses understanding of graphs and box plots.

A graph is given that shows the highest average temperature for each month in California and Washington. The task is to say what is the same about the graphs, and what is different. A subsequent task is to select correct box plots for California and...

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...

This worksheet challenges students to answer a series of questions themed around tesselation. It provides worked examples, examiners top tips and answers to each question. The resource is useful for teaching maths content in design and technology, or as a maths activity sheet.

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), introduces students to the idea of creating a rule that can be used to create tessellated patterns, thus understanding what is required to make interlocking units.

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...