How to Build a Pond
This resource, from Nuffield Foundation, is an example of how mathematics can arise naturally from a school activity and contains the work of students who attended Lady Margaret Junior School in 1967. The development of their project to build a pond is described in detail by the class teacher, who recognised that a practical activity…
4 - Materials and Equipment
The ASE Materials and Equipment booklet provides lists of equipment and materials compiled from what primary teachers at the time (1966) found met the needs of their own classes as they developed investigations. It reassured teachers that a large collection of equipment was not necessary before investigations could begin, but should…
3 - List of Teaching Aids
The ASE List of Teaching Aids provides a comprehensive catalogue of films, books, charts, and other visual materials that can help the teaching of science. It also includes addresses of fieldwork centres, clubs and societies for students and museum services. All this, of course refers to what was available at the time of publication,…
2 - List of Books
The ASE List of Books provides a very comprehensive list of publications relating to science for teachers and students as current at the time (1966). The list is helpfully separated into topics and there is an index. The list comprises authors, titles and publishers with no notes. The books for teachers include those on educational…
1 - Children Learning Through Science
The ASE booklet Children Learning Through Science comprises nine short case studies of work carried out in primary school classes. They are described as providing successful examples of how the teacher leads the work in response to the children’s question, interests and reactions to the situations. It was not intended that…
Logic
This book, which forms part of the weaving series from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, is an introduction to logic in a very general sense. Its main aim was to help students aged from about 8 to 12 to think clearly and logically. In this book, students are encouraged to consider how they use the logically important words, and…
Beginnings (Circle Series)
Beginnings, from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, is concerned principally with students in their first few years at school and how their experiences of life gradually extend their mathematical thinking. This guide is a 'beginning' in another way; it is concerned with some of the basic ideas at the beginning of mathematics…
Schools Council Bulletin 1966: Mathematics in Primary Schools
This bulletin, the second edition in the series published by the Schools Council, reports on the many changes that were happening generally in primary schools and specifically in mathematics teaching. The period under review follows the publication of the Mathematical Association’s 'The Teaching of Mathematics in Primary…
A Look Ahead
A look ahead is a short weaving guide from the Nuffield Mathematics Project intended mainly for teachers of older students in upper primary and lower secondary. The object of the guide was to re-state the aims and methods of the project in the light of experience so far, and to consider some of the problems which were then arising.…
The Story So Far
The story so far, from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, attempts to summarise some of the early Teachers’ Guides. References are also made to Desk calculators and Space. The purpose of the book was two-fold: 1. To provide easy reference to the topics in the guides for those teachers using them on a day to day basis. 2.…
I Do and I Understand
This guide explains the intentions of the Nuffield Mathematics Project, gives detailed descriptions of the ways in which a changeover from conventional teaching can be made and faces many of the problems that will be met. The contribution of the psychologist Piaget to the development of mathematics is described, as is the significance…
Checking up Guides
The Nuffield Mathematics Project Check-up Guides were intended to provide information on the students' progress. As traditional tests were difficult to administer in the new atmosphere of individual discovery it was the intention of the authors to replace these by individual check-ups for individual students. The first of…
Probability and Statistics
Probability and statistics, from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, starts with play activities which can develop ideas of fairness and probability through discussions on common facts leading to the collection of data, illustrating it with graphs and charts and drawing conclusions. Experimental and theoretical probability are…
Environmental Geometry
This guide from the Nuffield Mathematics Project delves deeper in to how the study of the Environmental can lead to geometrical work. The importance of the environment as a source for mathematical ideas was stressed throughout the main teachers’ guides. The range of activities discussed in this Guide extends beyond experiences…
Shape and Size
These Nuffield Mathematics Project guides focus on shape and size. Shape and size 2 is the first guide from the Nuffield Project to be concerned with shape and size although there was some preliminary material in Beginnings. The guide has three sections: a general introduction, ideas and topics suggested for primary schools and…
Computation and Structure
These guides from the Nuffield Mathematics Project follow on from the Beginnings guide. They deal mainly with number but also cover weights and measures. In Computation and structure 2, the concept of number is further developed. A section on the history of natural numbers and weights and measures (imperial and pre decimal) leads…
Pictorial Representation
The guide Pictorial representation, from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, was designed to help teachers of students between the ages of 5 and 10. The guide deals with graphical representation in its many aspects. It contains helpful notes for the teachers as well as ideas and examples of students’ work.
Mathematics Begins
Mathematics begins (1967) is a revised and enhanced version of the Circle series ‘Beginnings' produced by the Nuffield Mathematics Project. As with the earlier guide it is concerned with students in their first few years at school and how their experiences of life gradually extend their mathematical thinking. As this…
Beginnings (Triangle Series)
This is the parallel Guide, from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, to Beginnings (Circle series). It deals with the early awareness of both the meaning of number and the relationships which can emerge from everyday experiences of environmental play: measuring, length, capacity, area, time and size.
Mammals in Classrooms
This book was written by the Nuffield Junior Science project team to explain how mammals kept in the classroom can be used for the purpose of teaching young children. Some scientific background information is included, but this, as well as details of caring for the animals, is provided for reference in Chapter 1, 'Mammals',…
Science and History
The Nuffield Junior Science project team wrote this book to highlight the benefits in primary schools that arise from the system of assigning one teacher to a class. The authors made the point that this enables the teacher to present children with the world as a unified whole rather than with a world already divided up into secondary…
Autumn into Winter
This book was written by the Nuffield Junior Science project to show teachers how seasonal materials offer children many opportunities to carry out simple investigations. The aim was to help children to build up, over the years, a picture of the continuity and wholeness of the natural world which the more traditional teaching of…
Animals and Plants: a Sourcebook of Information and Ideas
This source book of information and ideas is a reference work from the Nuffield Junior Science project, giving precise and accurate information about a variety of living creatures, but also including detailed advice on how to house and care for those which can be kept in the classroom, as well as suggesting ways in which they might…
Apparatus: A Sourcebook of Information and Ideas
This sourcebook of information and ideas from the Nuffield Junior Science Project is a collection of photographs and descriptions of apparatus designed and made by children and teachers. It was intended for reference and also to give support to teachers who were making a start. The project team hoped that teachers would soon accumulate…
Teacher's Guide 2
Teacher’s Guide 2 of the Nuffield Junior Science Project is largely a collection of reports of samples of work done by classes in the pre-pilot and pilot areas. It attempts to show how children of a wide range of age, ability, and social background, taught by a representative sample of teachers, adapted the general approach…
Teacher's Guide 1
Teacher’s Guide 1 of the Nuffield Junior Science Project sets out the general educational philosophy of the project based on the project team's observations of children. It then tries to interpret that philosophy in terms of practical classroom situations, with chapters on selected trials, classroom organisation, books,…