This resource contains a number of articles explaining how statistics help us understand the world.

Investigating fingerprint types

A 2 by 4 grid is presented. The numbers from 1 to 8 are to be placed in the grid so that no two consecutive numbers touch at a side or a corner. The resource is suitable for Key Stage 3 students.

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Number-up sheets contain a sheet of 40 questions designed as practice of basic skills. Students complete the questions, record how long the exercise took and their score once marked. A1 requires students to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using single digits. J1 uses a mixture of one and...

MEI GCSE Extension materials for Number/Algebra. Tasks are available on quadratics, surds, interpreting graphs, trial & improvement, functions, indices, simultaneous equations, fractions, inequalities and curves.

The materials are aimed at students who are working towards GCSE Mathematics and would...

Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on numbers and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years. Each section offers an overview of a particular...

This collection of resources is produced by the Core Maths Support Programme to support the implementation of Core Maths. The collection contains a range of activities all designed to enable students to use and apply mathematics in unfamiliar contexts.

This set of materials from the National Strategies is intended to help practitioners working with students in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and lower Key Stage One, to plan their mathematics provision and help students to secure some of the key mathematical...

This Teachers TV programme observes a Year Four class at a Bristol primary school where teacher Simon Mills uses the problem of the distribution of colours in a tube of sweets to explore the challenge of understanding frequency and interpreting and presenting data. The class worked in the school's ICT suite over...

This resource contains 23 instant maths ideas exploring number problems such as how many ways the digits one to nine can be combined to make 100 and how many ways 100 can be made out of four nines. Target numbers, mental squares, arithmagons, bingo and other number puzzles all provide students an opportunity to...

A resource from the National Curriculum Council (NCC). One of the first acts of the new Labour government was to announce national targets for literacy and numeracy, these were for 75 per cent of 11 year olds to achieve the standards expected for their age in mathematics by 2002.

The Numeracy Task Force was...

Mathcentre provide this numeracy refresher resource, which was developed and trialled by staff of the University of Birmingham Careers Centre and subsequently used widely throughout the HE Sector. There are sections which review decimals, fractions, averages, percentages and ratios, making it a useful resource for...

A collection of early years maths/numeracy resources designed to help early years practitioners support children in their early stages of learning mathematics. These resources are designed to help children’s emerging understanding and use of numbers and counting and lay strong foundations in mathematics.

Numeracy Through Problem Solving is a sequence of five modules which develop students' ability to use mathematics together with other skills. In tackling problems of concern or situations of interest in everyday life - the original definition of numeracy, which was reinforced by the Cockcroft Report. The five...