Resources by Teachers TV

Maths - Using Game Playing

This video resource, from the Teachers TV series Uncut Classrooms, features Anna Jones, teacher of mathematics at a school in North Somerset, using game playing as a tool to consolidate the understanding of reflection, rotation and translation with students in a higher tier Year Ten GCSE class.

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Maths Across the School Day

This Teachers TV video shows how a number of initiatives across a school day are being used to improve progression in mathematics at Great Barr Primary School, Birmingham. Teaching assistants deliver wave three intervention and then feed back to teachers.

A student’s progress is discussed by a key worker...

Maths at Melcombe Primary School

Uncut Classrooms is a Teachers TV series in which an entire lesson is recorded and shown unedited, providing a resource would would be technically difficult for schools to capture. It is intended to help develop classroom observation skills.

Teacher Kerry Lee introduces the video of her lesson, explains...

Maths for the Terrified: Involving Parents

This Teachers TV video shows how one primary school engaged with parents to support mathematics. Wylde Green Primary School, Sutton Coldfield invites parents to mathematics workshops with their children, where they learn to use consistent methods and techniques to positively support mathematics at home. The...

Maths in the Navy

Teachers TV provide this resource which features two teachers from two very different working environments. Understanding algebra can make the difference between life and death in the navy and between pass and failure at GCSE.

Peps McCrae, Head of Mathematics at Falmer High School in Brighton, is concerned...

Maths Stories

This programme from Teachers TV contains seven clips which may be used to demonstrate a technique for teaching number operations and fractions using paper cups. Teachers should view the programmes Just a Fraction and Understanding Fractions to see the technique being used with a class.

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Maths with Professor Christopher Zeeman

This resource from Teachers TV features Professor Christopher Zeeman at the Royal Institution in London to talk about mathematics. In 1979, Professor Christopher Zeeman was the first mathematician to deliver a Royal Institution annual Christmas Lecture, which influenced many young mathematicians at the time. It...

Mean, Median and Mode

This video resource from Teachers TV is presented by Wendy Fortescue-Hubbard who explores average house prices at Colliers Wood and Wimbledon in south-west London, with a local estate agent who explains how an average price is obtained and why it may be useful to mortgage lenders. Stuart Hill, Head of Mathematics...

Measures

From the series Great Lesson Ideas, this Teachers TV video highlights activities that engage students in learning about measures. At Cuffley School in Hertfordshire, Year Two students work in pairs to estimate the volume of water contained in different-sized bottles, In the playground they draw a chalk circle and...

Measuring Height in Durham Cathedral

This video resource from Teachers TV is presented by Steve Humble. Filmed in Durham Cathedral, it investigates the mathematics used by master masons and the links with classical architecture. Steve demonstrates a technique, using a 30cm ruler, which can be used to estimate the height of a column within the...