Tunnelworks: Key Stage Five Mathematics
Tunnelworks is a series of teaching and learning resources linking mathematics and science to the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, a major new sewer that will help protect the River Thames from increasing pollution. Background to the project is given in the introductory video. AS Maths: In this lesson students generate and transform…
Tunnelworks: Key Stage Four Mathematics
Tunnelworks is a series of teaching and learning resources linking mathematics and science to the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, a major new sewer that will help protect the River Thames from increasing pollution. Background to the project is given in the introductory video. Lesson one explores mean, mode and median using fictitious…
Tunnelworks: Key Stage Three Mathematics
Tunnelworks is a series of teaching and learning resources linking mathematics and science to the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, a major new sewer that will help protect the River Thames from increasing pollution. Background to the project is given in the introductory video. Lesson one explores right-angled triangles and Pythagoras’…
Forming a Rhythm Band
This resource uses Cuisenaire® Rods to investigate how to make different sounds by putting the differently coloured rods into a can and shaking them. Children are then asked to create notes for the different coloured rods and use these to write and perform their own songs. Cuisenaire® Rods are a useful mathematical resource…
Changing Rod Stories to Number Sentences
This resource uses Cuisenaire® Rods to create addition stories. Select one rod and the two rods that when positioned side by side are the same length as the original. Then use the white rods which represent 1 to convert the rod story into an addition sentence. Included are teachers' notes and a worksheet to practise converting…
Interpreting One-colour Trains as Fractional Parts
In this resource children are asked to build all of the possible one-colour trains to match the purple rod. Fitting them underneath they then resemble a fraction wall where children can describe the fractional parts of the whole purple rod. They then investigate the other coloured rods and their fractional parts, for example halves…
Recording Subtraction Stories
In this resource, children are asked to create subtractions using different coloured rods and interpret and solve subtraction sentences. Following this they form all of the possible addition and subtraction sentences for three given rods. This activity is a way of introducing or reinforcing subtraction using a concrete, visual representation.…
Colouring All the Trains
In this resource, children are asked to investigate the number of possible trains they can make for a given colour of rod. They then record this information and see if they can find any patterns. It helps develop the skills of logical thinking, looking for patterns and the systematic recording of results. It could be used as a whole…
The Whole Curriculum in Primary Schools
Published in 1993 by the Association for Science Education, this report was a response to concerns about primary curriculum overload and the place of science as a core subject within the curriculum. A task group including practising teachers, a primary head teacher, a science adviser, lecturers and researchers in primary education…
Sorting
This resource from Maths Chest 3 contains detailed teacher notes for running activities on logic. The topic is organised into two sets of activities both of which include teacher-led activities, group activities and individual activities. At the end of each topic there are opportunities for reinforcement and extension and suggestions…
Multiplying Decimals
This resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, illustrates the common mistakes students make when multiplying two decimal values. It suggests that the language used could be adjusted so that the term times is interchanged with of, thus one-tenth of one-tenth is equal to one one-hundredth. Practice of multiplying…
Measure - Pack 2
This resource from Maths Chest 2 is aimed at Key Stage One and contains teachers' notes for running activities on the topic areas of money, capacity, length, time, weight and area. It is divided into 14 topics which are designed to be taught in sequence at different times within the year. Each topic is organised into two…
Number - Pack 3
This resource from Maths Chest 6, aimed at Key Stage Two, contains teachers' notes for running activities on number including: counting, ordering, place value, halving, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It is divided into 22 topics which are designed to be taught in sequence at different times within the year. …
Number - Pack 2
This resource from Maths Chest 6, aimed at Key Stage Two, contains teachers' notes for running activities on number including: counting, ordering, place value, halving, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It is divided into 22 topics designed to be taught in sequence at different times within the year. Each…
Number - Pack 2
This resource from Maths Chest 5, aimed at Key Stage Two, contains the teacher notes for running activities on number including: counting, ordering, place value, halving, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It is divided into 20 topics which are designed to be taught in sequence at different times within the year. Each…
Measure - Pack 2
This resource from Maths Chest 4 aimed at lower Key Stage Two, develops understanding of measure through games and investigations which are designed to motivate and encourage self-confidence in learners. It contains detailed teachers' notes for running activities on topic areas of money, capacity, length, time, weight and area.…
Number - Pack 2
This resource from Maths Chest 4 aimed at lower Key Stage Two, develops understanding of number through games and investigations which are designed to motivate and encourage self-confidence in learners. It contains detailed teachers' notes for running activities on topic areas including: counting, ordering, fractions, number…
Calculations with Negative Numbers
Straightforward logic is used in this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, to establish the calculation, necessary to move correctly along a number line, when the starting point is at a negative value. Phrases such as owing and debt are used to help students deal with directed number in context. Further…
Adding with Negative Numbers
A number line is used in this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, to illustrate how to solve a calculation involving negative numbers. To help correct misconceptions regarding these, the term taking away is used to represent minus and giving back for plus. Thus -8 +6 is read as taking away 8 and giving…
Dividing Whole Numbers by Fractions
This resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, uses diagrams to illustrate division by a fraction and, to clarify the common misconception identified with this task, prompts students to rethink the statement, divide three by one quarter, as the number of quarters that fit into three. Practice of dividing…
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Decimals and Their Equivalent Fractions
This resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, explores the misconception that decimals and fractions are different types of numbers. It illustrates how to write a decimal value as a fraction, as well as how, by using division, most fractions can be expressed with denominators of 10, 100 or 1000 to find their…
Multiplications Can Increase or Decrease
This resource, provided by the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, explores why multiplication does not always increase the size of a number. It explains how, by putting the term multiplying into a context with which students can identify and making a situation meaningful, this common misconception can be addressed. Practice…
Rounding Numbers
Students' misconceptions when rounding to the nearest 1000 is the focus of this resource from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. It illustrates how, when asked to round a value to the nearest 1000, some students mistakenly round to the nearest 10, then the nearest 100 and finally to the nearest 1000, giving an…
Probability
Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on probability and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years. Each section offers an overview of a particular topic and…
Percentages
Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on percentages and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years. Each section offers an overview of a particular topic and…
Numbers
Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on numbers and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years. Each section offers an overview of a particular topic and the…
Mensuration
Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on mensuration and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years. Each section offers an overview of a particular topic and…
Handling Data
Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on handling data and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years. Each section offers an historical background of a particular…
Geometry
Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on geometry and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years. Each section offers an overview of a particular topic and the…
Fractions
Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on fractions and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years. Each section offers an overview of a particular topic and the…
Equations
Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on equations and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years. Each section offers an overview of a particular topic and the…
Decimals
Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on decimals and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years. Each section offers an overview of a particular topic and the…
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