Researching Effective CPD in Mathematics Education
The Researching Effective CPD in Mathematics Education (RECME) project was set up under the umbrella of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) in England, who provide these resources. The project's aim was to provide advice, guidance and recommendations to be used by NCETM to inform future…
Issue 84: A Resource for the Classroom - Averages Mystery
Issue 84 of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) Secondary magazine featured an activity which was developed by a teacher looking for ways of integrating a problem-solving approach into his everyday teaching. The activity focuses on finding the mean, mode, median and range of scores of three…
Issue 75: Christmas Puzzles
These four puzzles were initially published in 1917 but are now presented by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) in their Secondary magazine as starting points for mathematical exploration. Each puzzle is accompanied by the period text and illustrations and a solution with further ideas to…
Issue 20: Games - Threading Beads
This article, from an Early Years edition of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) online magazine, uses beads and threading as its key activity. Threading is a well established activity for young children and this article gives a number of suggestions as to how the mathematics can be developed…
Issue 37: The Weather
This issue of the Primary Magazine from the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) takes weather as its inspiration for a number of mathematical starting points. Stormy weather gives rise to opportunities to discuss and work with large numbers, speed, distance and time, percentages and probability…
Thinking Through Mathematics
These resources, produced by The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), have been designed to encourage distinctive ways of thinking and learning as part of the NCETM professional development package. Analysing reasoning and solutions sets a number of problems about proportion and percentages and…
Issue 31: Art of Mathematics
Taken from Issue 31 of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) Primary magazine, the Art of Mathematics focuses on Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian painter and architect. His buildings are colourful and rounded, trees are extremely tall, everything is inaccurate. He disliked edges and straight…
Issue 1: Ideas for the Classroom - Odd One Out
A resource from the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) online FE magazine which is aimed at educators interested in or teaching in the further education sector or post-16 education generally. Odd one out, is an activity that aims to promote discussion and observation, encouraging a wider perspective…
Issue 39: It's in the News! Space Junk
This activity from the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) Primary magazine takes the issue of space junk as its central theme. There are opportunities to develop and understanding of time and time zones, probability, mass, speed and large numbers relating to distances. Other opportunities offered…
Issue 21: Games - Scavenger Hunts
This article from an Early Years edition of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) online magazine describes how to use a digital camera to produce a scavenger hunt for early years students. The usual way that a scavenger hunt is carried out is for the participants to have a list of items to…
Issue 81: It's in the News!
It’s in the news! This idea for a mathematical activity featured in the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) Secondary magazine issue 81. A pair of size 21 trainers has been found at a petrol station in Derbyshire! Denise Bostock, who works in the lost property office for the police said,…
Issue 21: And Finally...Using Photographs
This resource from the further education edition of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) online magazine, explores how photographs could be used in lessons as starting points for mathematical discussion or exploration. The article uses photographs taken around the National Science Learning…
Issue 3: Maths and Numeracy - Exploring Digital Devices
Using the context of digital devices, this article from the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) FE online magazine, explores how students might be helped to understand how decimal numbers work by considering binary numbers and manipulating them. Tables are used to explain the link between base 2…
STEM Knowledge Networks
This booklet provides twelve case studies from STEM Knowledge Networks. These were projects supported by the National STEM Centre in partnership with the National Centre for the Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (NCETM). Schools were required to enable at least two or more STEM departments to work collaboratively by releasing teachers…
Issue 24: Games - Feed Henry
Feed Henry, an activity from an Early Years issue of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) online magazine, develops ideas of patterns and corresponding mathematical language. Henry only eats patterns. It doesn’t matter what the pattern is made from - as long as it will fit in his mouth,…