This resource focusses on addition bonds. Four equilateral triangles are grouped to create ‘petals’ and students are challenged to place the numbers 1 to 9 in a way that ensures each triangle has numbers where the larger number is the sum of two smaller numbers. This resource is an extension of the ‘Space Ship...

This collection contains resources from the website 1001mathproblems.com by Sian Zelbo. The focus is on number bonds with addition bonds presented in the form of puzzles.  

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...

Numeracy assessment requires students to complete a multiplication table, answer questions relating to time and money, write numbers in words, order numbers and round numbers.

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...