The skills of strategy, forward thinking and logical thought are ones which make a good mathematician. Students can learn these skills through certain board games. This resource, produced by the Centre for Teaching Mathematics at the University of Plymouth, contains playing instructions for six mathematical games...

These three activities are taken from the Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) publication ‘Mathematical Jo...

These resources, from the Maths Careers website, looks at the maths behind a variety of magic tricks and was created in conjunction with More Maths Grads and the University of Leeds. Tricks and ideas include those from Rob Eastaway, Johnny Ball and others.

The resource package includes a PowerPoint...

This resource focusses on measuring the lengths and widths of leaves from a tree, placing the data in a table and calculating the mean average of each. In this activity learners will measure the lengths and widths of six leaves from a single tree. They will place this data in a table and then calculate the mean...

This resource from SMILE Mathematics contains 27 activities with full teacher's notes and answers.

The activities cover:

Integers, powers and roots: Some sums, Half time scores, Tower of Hanoi

Written methods: Largest product

Equations, formulae...

The main aim of Mathematics Challenge is to provide targeted one-to-one support to help those year seven students currently achieving level three in mathematics to attain level four.
Some pupils working at level four may also benefit from parts of the programme to...

This resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, contains a collection of copymasters for reception class children.

Each set of copymasters is matched to a block of ten lessons.

These lessons, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT), are grouped into blocks of ten, each of which is accompanied by a set of images in the form of copymasters. The plans for each block of lessons contain descriptions of the activities, teacher questions and references to posters or...

This resource contains two treasure hunts. Each treasure hunt contains twenty questions appropriate to the topic. Each page contains the answer to one of the other questions, the question to be answered and a box containing the card number. Students are required to answer the questions and record the order in which...

This resource, from Mathematics for Engineering Exemplars, shows the application of mathematics within public health engineering to supply clean water in a rural mountain area. Here students learn about the formulae used to calculate the optimum size of pipes which will ensure good pressure of water throughout the...

These resources have been provided by Mathematical Education on Merseyside who have been running Challenge and Senior Challenge, take-home competitions for February half term, since the late 1970s.

These challenges are aimed at students aged between 11 and 14 years. Each challenge consists of about eight...

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

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

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

Basic...