October 2008 Front Page


Welcome to NRICH

About NRICH

NRICH works in a wide range of capacities, aiming to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. A list of some of our current activities can be found here .

The NRICH website offers free mathematics enrichment material (problems, articles and games) for teachers and learners from ages 5 to 19 years. It supports teachers and learners of mathematics with thousands of resources which are designed to develop subject knowledge and problem-solving and mathematical thinking skills.

For guidance on how to find the right resources for you, go to the Help section of the site.

The NRICH team offers on-line and face-to-face professional development support for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.

Each month we create content focussing on a particular theme. This month's theme is Representing . A list of previous issues can be found here .

This month

The problem Biscuit Decorations provides opportunities to talk about different ways of recording mathematics as you work and Quadrilaterals encourages use of symbolic representations of findings. Crossed Ends introduces and develops algebraic notation, and Pythagoras for a Tetrahedron offers an attractive generalisation of Pythagoras Theorem to 3D.

In addition, Bernard Bagnall discusses the importance of valuing young children's mathematical representations in this article for teachers.

News update

First teacher inspiration day a great success.

On Friday October 24th, over one hundred teachers attended the first NRICH Teacher Inspiration Day at Churchill College, funded by Goldman Sachs. A Keynote speech from Sue Pope of the QCA set the day off to a flying start after which teachers spent the day working on problems they will try out in schools before they meet again in March 2009.

Ten Million Times Mathematics

September 2008 was the first month in NRICH's history when we exceeded over 10,000,000 hits to the site in one month. October looks like it will be breaking even this staggering achievement.