Learning Outdoors
This programme from Teachers TV shows how one school uses the school grounds as a valuable resource for learning across the primary curriculum, especially in numeracy. Pip Mann a Year Three teacher at Hook Primary School in Goole passionately believes in the benefits of learning outdoors. Using the outside space within the school…
Data Handling in the Classroom
In this Teachers TV programme, a Year Two teacher overcome her own fear of ICT while improving her teaching of data handling at Key Stage One by using the advice of a fellow teacher. Data handling is often conducted using traditional pen and paper methods in the classroom, but ICT offers an effective and simple way to teach data…
Drama 4 Learning - KS1
This Teachers TV programme shows how one teacher incorporates drama into a mathematics lesson on number at reception and Key Stage One. Terri English at Great Hockham School in Norfolk uses the technique of "Teacher In Role" playing the part of a café owner to make her lesson more engaging for the children, stimulating…
Independent Learning - KS1 Maths
In this Teachers TV programme, two education experts Malcolm Reed and Alison Fletcher analyse a primary mathematics lesson for a mixed ability class, looking at the teacher's techniques for encouraging independent learning. Teacher Pritti Poole encourages the use of mathematical vocabulary as she introduces her lesson on…
Teaching and Learning - Algebra and Geometry
The Royal Society provide these resources which offer an insight into reviews, which took place in the mid 1990s and early 2000s, to investigate the teaching and learning of algebra and geometry. Both reviews took place at a time of considerable discussion over developments in mathematics, both at home and at international level. Teaching…
TIMSS 2011 International Results in Mathematics
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMMS) has the goal of helping countries make informed decisions about how to improve teaching and learning in mathematics and science. This report summarizes the results of the TIMSS 2011 international mathematics assessment of fourth and eighth grade students in countries…
Solving the Maths Problem: International Perspectives on Mathematics Education
This resource, written by Emma Morris, outlines the core choices facing mathematics education and builds on the recommendations of the 2011 Vorderman Report, by examining which mathematics approaches and reforms have worked overseas. The paper does not recommend directly importing practice from either of the case study sites, high-achieving…
Primary Problems - a First Curriculum for Mathematics
This resource, from Politeia, responds to the developments in the educational reform of mathematics, published in 2012. It contains a curriculum, drawn up by Professor David Burghes, Director of the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) at the University of Plymouth. Particular attention is paid to the teaching…
Children's Understanding of Probability
These resources, from the Nuffield Foundation, follow a previous study which reviewed the available research on how students learn mathematics. Probability is the focus here and this review, published in 2012, was commissioned to explore several aspects of the topic. The starting point in this report on children’s understanding…
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…
Mathematics in A level Assessments
This report, from Nuffield Foundation, presents the findings of a research project which mapped the mathematical and statistical content in the assessment of six A level subjects: business studies, computing, economics, geography, psychology and sociology. Analysis of the summer 2010 examination papers from AQA, CCEA, Edexcel,…
Key Understandings in Mathematics Learning
These resources are provided by the Nuffield Foundation who, in 2007, commissioned a team from the University of Oxford to review the available research literature on how children learn mathematics. The resulting review is presented in a series of eight papers. Paper 1 Overview - summarises findings from detailed analysis of a…
Digital Technologies and Mathematics Education
These resources, written in 2011 and provided by the Joint Mathematical Council (JMC), discuss the role that digital technologies might and should have in mathematics education. Consideration is given to the types of experiences students encounter and how best to develop the curriculum to engage students in using skills to explore…
Deep Progress in Mathematics: the Improving Attainment in Mathematics Project
This resource, provided by Anne Watson, Els De Geest and Stephanie Prestage, describes how a group of ten teachers taught low attaining groups in secondary school, and what features were seen to be important. The teachers had a shared commitment to improving the attainment of their lowest attaining students by building on the belief…
Mathematical Needs
In 2009, the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME), who provide these resources, embarked on the Mathematical Needs Project to investigate how both the national needs and the individual needs of students, from age five to nineteen in England, could be met by a curriculum, delivery policy and implementation framework. The…
Money Activities Games Pack
The games in this pack, from Shropshire Centre for Mathematics Education, provides students with repeated opportunities to develop skills of counting and exchanging coins, as well as adding coin values mentally. Several of the games can also be extended into puzzles and investigations. Exchange games - collect and exchange sets…
Mathematical Activities for Nursery and Reception
This resource pack, from Shropshire Centre for Mathematics Education, provides ideas for activities that can be offered on a repeatable basis to most students in Nursery and Reception classes. They engage students in experiences that will challenge them and develop their ability to think mathematically. Large numerals - arrange…
Cuisenaire and Pattern Blocks
The Shropshire Centre for Mathematics Education provides this resource which offers a selection of activities, using cuisenaire rods and pattern blocks, that allow students to discover a range of mathematical concepts such as equivalence, addition, difference, multiplication and fractions. Pictures and patterns - students make…
Teaching and Understanding Science
This book published in 1992 by Hodder & Stoughton was written with the aim of helping teachers to understand the science involved in the activities they lead in class. It is designed as a reference guide for teachers, providing simple background knowledge on key concepts within the National Curriculum science programmes of study,…
Lancashire Looks at...Science in the Primary School
This book was published in 1981 by Lancashire County Council and aimed to develop the confidence of classroom teachers in their delivery of science lessons. It was the product of a group of primary school head teachers, class teachers and County Science Advisers who looked at the teaching of science in primary schools in the late…
Nuffield Maths 2: Worksheets and Copymasters
This resource, from Nuffield Foundation, is a collection of worksheets from the Nuffield Maths 5-11 project. Practical experiences are used to introduce students to the early stages of subtraction and place value. The worksheets were designed to be used in conjunction with the Nuffield Maths 2 Teachers' Handbook and provide…
Nuffield Maths 2: Teacher's Handbook
This resource, from Nuffield Foundation, provides clear guidance on the content, methods and timing appropriate at each stage of the Nuffield Maths 5 - 11 project, which was developed to promote students' understanding of the concepts, as well as proficiency in the basic skills of mathematics. The chapters in this handbook…
Nuffield Maths 1: Teacher's Handbook
This resource, from Nuffield Foundation, provides clear guidance on the content, methods and timing appropriate at each stage of the Nuffield Maths 5 - 11 project, which was developed to promote students' understanding of the concepts, as well as proficiency in the basic skills of mathematics. The chapters in this handbook…
Numeracy and Literacy
This Teachers TV programme focuses on two lessons where teachers use ICT to aid the teaching of mathematics at Key Stage Two and Literacy in a reception class. A primary teacher in Kent develops a lesson using free Interactive Teaching Programmes from the National Strategy in her work on pentagons and diagonals. Working alongside…
"Goodbye SATs... Hello Assessment" - Programme 2
In this Teachers TV programme, mathematics consultant Val Worcester joins Melanie Grant and Vanessa Clarke from Aston Tower, Birmingham as they reflect on the assessment activities used in their Key Stage One classes. The challenge for teachers in Key Stage One assessment is to design activities that will yield evidence about…
"Goodbye SATs... Hello Assessment" - Programme 1
This programme from Teachers TV looks at how teachers assess progress. Year Two teachers, Melanie Grant and Vanessa Clarke are anxious about how they can accurately build up a picture of children's skills at the end of Key Stage One. They work with mathematics consultant, Val Worcester, to design active assessment opportunities.…
Dancing Skeleton
This worksheet provides a picture of a skeleton for children to label by choosing the correct word from the list. The activity can be completed after watching the videoTiana and Star’s Story, which features two sisters who have brittle bone disease, or as part of a topic on the body. This activity was produced by Genetic…
Bone Bingo
This is a competitive game which tests children’s knowledge of bones, joints and their function. The teacher reads out a statement related to a bone or joint, and children cross off the answer if they have it. This resource was produced by Genetic Disorders UK, which provides schools with a host of free resources for increasing…
Tiana and Star's Story
This video features Tiana, who has broken a total of eight bones, and her sister Star, who has broken thirty-three. Tiana and Star talk about brittle bone disease and explain how it affects their lives. The teachers notes provide an explanation of the disease and how it is inherited. Curriculum links include ourselves, human variation,…
Primary Mathematics with Polydron
Polydron is a system of strong, colourful shapes capable of being fitted together to make nets of shapes that can be folded to make 3D models. Primary Mathematics with Polydron describes forty six activities, in eight themed chapters, designed to promote exploration and creativity as a vehicle for understanding. Section One contains…
Reception 2
In this programme from Teachers TV a panel of early years experts analyse the practice at Berridge Infant School and talk about the balance between child-led and adult initiated play. Sheila Sage, primary adviser with responsibility for early years in Worcestershire, is joined by Ged Cotton, an infant school head teacher from…
Reception 1
This programme from Teachers TV follows teachers Johanna Moore and Kristabel Harwood from Berridge Infant School, a multicultural school in Nottingham. They each choose a target child to focus on over the day, Jade and Shoaib. Throughout the day they create a balance between teacher-led and child-initiated learning in their classes…
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