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Nuffield Applying Mathematical Processes

Twenty activities, a mix of investigations and practical explorations, can be downloaded via the links to the left.

Key Ideas in Teaching Mathematics

This website is for teachers and other education professionals interested in how secondary school students best learn mathematics.

It takes each of the ‘key ideas’ in the mathematics curriculum and provides research-based guidance about teaching these ideas to 9- to 19- year-olds. Each idea is broken down into several themes, which have links to relevant online activities and resources that exemplify the approaches presented. The ideas are listed on the left hand side of this page. 

Bowland Assessment Material

Bowland Maths includes over thirty tasks designed to help you assess your pupils' achievements and progression against the Key Processes. To help you with this assessment, each task comes with sample pupils' work, and a "progression table" showing how pupils' work on this task can provide evidence of their progress with the four Key Processes. These self-contained tasks take between twenty minutes and an hour.

These materials are also ideal for formative assessment that concentrates on providing the types of rich feedback that have been proven to help pupils improve their reasoning.

Although titled 'Assessment', these tasks have been designed to be just as rich and engaging as the longer 'Case Studies'. If you are new to Bowland and unsure about taking on a 3-4 lesson project, one of these shorter tasks would make a great basis for a lesson. 

Standards Units

Improving Learning in Mathematics builds on existing successful practice and explores approaches that encourage a more active way of learning through the use of group work, discussion and open questioning. Learners are encouraged to ‘have a go’, become more independent and reflective about their mathematics, to learn to think mathematically rather than simply learning rules and most importantly, to enjoy their mathematics"

This link includes "classroom ready" versions of these outstanding resources, which not only save you a lot of time, but also contain tips, words or caution, and examples of students' work to help you have the most effective teaching and learning experience possible.

NRICH Secondary Curriculu

NRICH have gathered a set of links that take you to a selection of Secondary NRICH tasks chosen because they are ideal for developing subject knowledge, mathematical thinking, problem-solving skills and good mathematical habits.
 

Articles on Pedagogy

NRICH articles concerning general pedagogical issues.

Secondary curriculum

These are links into the upper secondary curriculum. Stage 4 material is organised under Number, Algebra, Handling Data and Geometry and Measure. Stage 5 material is organised into C1-2, C3-4, Further Pure and Applied Modules.