This booklet, the Mathematics Centre at the University of Chichester, contains accounts of how some students aged ten and eleven became involved in starting to carry out some of their own mathematical explorations. The accounts focus on the first hour or so of five...

Each file in this resource begins by asking: What grade are you...? There then follows a series of questions on the given topic with an indication of the level of difficulty of each question by means of a GCSE grade assigned to that question. The final pages supply the answers to the questions

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This Eigen publications material is designed to support the teaching of early number concepts. The booklets are entirely dependent on the flapjacks which need to be made for both teacher and student use. The flapjack is a robust, simple and effective resource which students enjoy using. The booklets are entirely...

This Eigen publications material is designed to support the teaching of early mathematics concepts. The booklets are independent of each other each with a specific focus.

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These Eigen publications booklets contain a large number of games which almost exclusively focus on developing understanding of number and practicing number skills. Many of the games are 'box games' which involve students putting individual one or two digit numbers into ‘boxes’ to achieve some objective. * ...

These Eigen publications booklets contain a large number of games which almost exclusively focus on developing understanding of number and practicing number skills. Many of the games are ‘box games’ which involve students putting individual one or two digit numbers into...

These maths starters from Badger include samples from Years Seven, Nine and Ten. They were written after the launch of the Framework for teaching mathematics.

The starters cover place value in year 7 and year 10, standard index form and rounding for making estimates in year 9 and approximating for...

This resource contains activities that can be used in mathematics and numeracy lessons to improve the financial capability of pupils who have recently arrived in the UK and/or for whom English is an additional language. They can also be used by other pupils who need additional support. The activities enable pupils...

This challenge asks teams of students to plan a major sporting event in their local area. The resource provides an opportunity for students to explore their ideas in a creative environment. Teams can define their own goals and priorities, but may want to focus on three main areas of planning an event:

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This resource gives a very practical use of basic mathematics that might be used by a trades person in their work. The activity is based around carpeting and flooring rooms. It involves the use of area and lots of calculations which resemble the functional skills questions in GCSE maths exams.

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This resource from Cre8ate maths investigates the maths found in work by two artists. Both activities have an accessible starting point and both can be extended to provide a real challenge.

An artistic puzzle uses a...

This resource from, the Maths Careers website, includes eight maths activities and was created by More Maths Grads. The activity was designed to be used with able Year 7 or Year 8 pupils, in teams of four or five, and should last around an hour.

The eight activities are:

1. Nets of Cubes

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These four Eigen publications booklets provide a range of data handling activities based on four different sports. As well as the calculation of simple statistics the encourage the production of graphical representation of information to assist in the analysis and...

A compilation of whole class activities from SMILE intended for use as lesson starters or as part of a plenary session. The activities are categorised into five sections. Each section contains a number of activity ideas each consisting of a clear aim, a full description and suggested variations. The activity...

These three Eigen publications booklets provide a range of data handling activities based on football. The booklets largely focus on calculation of means and the use of tallies, frequency tables and bar graphs. However, they also encourage students to look at rather...