Idea Book for Cuisenaire® Rods
This collection of resources provided by ETA hand2mind is a selection of activities from Idea Book for Cuisenaire® Rods, using Cuisenaire® Rods to teach skills and concepts within mathematics. Cuisenaire® Rods are a useful mathematical resource which provides a concrete visual representation as a bridge to developing…
Nuffield Maths 5-11
Nuffield Foundation provide these resources from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project, which was originally based on the Nuffield Mathematics Teaching Project, developed in the 1960s. The initial project produced only guidance for teachers, parents and teacher trainers, but was subsequently reviewed and extended, following requests from…
Nuffield Mathematics Teaching Project
The Nuffield Mathematics Teaching Project produced a series of twenty modules aimed at supporting the teaching of topics in mathematics which in the project team’s view students found difficult. The modules were aimed at students aged 11 and 12 in the first two years of secondary education. Some of the ideas and content would…
Mathematics for the Majority
The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics (renamed Mathematics for the Majority) was set up to help teachers construct courses for students of average and below-average ability that related mathematics to their experience and provided them with some insight into the processes that lie behind the use of mathematics…
Continuing Mathematics Project
The Continuing Mathematics Project (CMP), published by Longman in the 1970s, was conceived as a response to the problem of insufficiently numerate students who were studying beyond '0' level. The Dainton Report recommended that " ... normally all pupils should study mathematics until they leave school ...".…
The Mathematics Curriculum
This collection was produced by the Schools Council Project: The Mathematics Curriculum - A Critical Review. The Project was initiated by the Mathematics Committee of the Schools Council as a result of letters having been received from teachers asking for guidance on the vast amount of new mathematical literature which had been produced…
Leapfrogs Network
Network is a series of books from Leapfrogs which were intended for middle and secondary schools. In content they are less restricting than a simple workcard and may be seen as a source of additional interesting material for class use. There are three groups of books available: Action books are each based on a theme and encourage…
Mathematics Basic Skills and Practice
This selection of books presented here and published by Longman is part of the prolific output of mathematics books written by K A Hesse to provide carefully graded examples for primary school students to practise computation and work through problems. In each of the series the books follow a similar pattern, starting with simple…
Alpha and Beta Mathematics
Alpha Mathematics and Beta Mathematics, first published by Schofield & Sims in the 1970s, were developed to provide a cohesive, progressively planned course which, when completed, would give students of junior and middle school age a broadly-based foundation in mathematics, deemed essential for future progress. Alpha Mathematics…