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...

This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of translations and vectors, from creating border patterns to working with vectors.

Translations and vectors pack one contains twelve work cards with a...

A special issue of Computer Science for Fun focused on computers and images, containing articles on:

• Fractals

• Using Geomlab for tessellating images

• The golden ratio and beauty

• Robot artists

• The painter’s algorithm for drawing 3D graphics

• Communicating ideas...

In this Bowland assessment task, students solve a puzzle known as a magic sum, in which the numbers 1 to 7 have to be placed in a grid such that both lines of numbers add to the same total. Students have to choose a logical way to solve the puzzle, make a conjecture then attempt to justify it. Students form...

This Instant Maths Ideas resource from Colin Foster contains two files: Factors, Multiples, Prime Numbers and Divisibility contains 26 instant maths ideas requiring students to use Venn diagrams to show different sets of numbers, explore methods of prime factorisation, devise tests for divisibility, investigate...

The investigation begins by looking at the area of three segments related to a quadratic. The investigation begins with a practical investigation using measurement of lengths and angles. The...

This is a series of ten activities from Churchill Maths. Each resource has student handouts, teachers' notes and answers.

Adding Outwards - an investigation starting with addition of integers then using algebra to explain findings.

Circles in a Triangle - an...

A series of resources from Defence Dynamics in which the teaching and learning of mathematics is put into a military context. Students' activity sheets show how important mathematical concepts are used in real-life situations by the armed forces. The resources are:

Bearings- students plan...

The ‘Something in Common’ collection from John Burke contains problems that enable students to hone their skills of both problem solving and proof. ...

This series of seven videos gradually build on the concepts that lead to an understanding of air pressure and contain clips of some interesting demonstrations to show its effects which could be replicated in a classroom.The demonstrations...

This SMILE resource contains four packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of patterns and generalisations, from finding number patterns on a hundred-square grid to exploring converging sequences.

Patterns and generalisations pack one...