This Cre8ate maths activity requires students to calculate areas of polygons and to appreciate the link with volumes of prisms. It may also involve detailed exploration of similarity.

Provided by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME), this resource was written in 2002. It includes recommendations on the steps to be taken, at that time, to raise the quality of mathematical provision in schools. Concerns regarding the poor uptake of students continuing to study mathematics at Post...

This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of coordinates.

The pack contains ten work cards with a wide variety of activities requiring students to use coordinates to solve a coded message, draw a picture, use...

This activity from the Institution of Engineering and Technology involves interpreting and using hieroglyphic symbols for simple mathematical functions.

Pupils will discover how the Ancient Egyptians used a decimal system using 7 different symbols for numbers up to 1,000,000, They will learn how to write...

This series of interactive excel sheets aimed at students in Year Two looks at counting, reading and ordering whole numbers up to 100. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button. To return to the menu page click on the musical...

This series of interactive excel sheets aimed at students in Year Three look at counting, reading and ordering whole numbers up to 1000. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button.

This series of interactive excel sheets, aimed at students in Year One, looks at counting, reading ordering and comparing numbers. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button. To return to the menu click on the musical note...

This STEM activity supports pupils to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division multi-step problems in context, giving them the opportunity to decide which operation to use and justify why. This activity is based on the Countdown TV show, pupils will be asked to select 5 random numbers and work out a...

This dot to dot activity, from the Maths of the Month series published by BEAM, challenges students to recognise and sequence numbers from 80 to 104, producing a picture of a house.

*Dot to dot - sequencing two digit numbers.

Published by BEAM, the activity What's what? challenges students to identify numbers and match them to a list of given properties including, negative, square, and mixed numbers before deciding which description(s) fit several numbers. Students are then asked to make up their own descriptions that fit several...

Two games, published by BEAM, to help lower Key Stage Two (Year 3-4) students to develop their counting and sorting skills.
*Big numbers - a game for two players requiring students to use the results of rolling four dice to write down a four digit number and then read out the number written.
*Writing...

Published by BEAM, this collection provides a selection of resources for teachers of primary mathematics. Included are a number of challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding of counting,...

These Cre8ate maths activities are provided to introduce students to the fundamental processes involved in programming a computer. Students are given drawings, along with the Logo commands which have been used and, by...

This resource combines understanding of the natural world with maths skills, to create a map and guidebook of the local flora and fauna. In this activity learners will work together to gather information about local flora and fauna. They will create a map with coordinates showing the location of plants and animals...