Welcome to the new edition of NRICH.
This month's NRICH site looks a little different from usual - instead of problems, we are offering starting points for projects. The inspiration for this comes from the way teachers at Kingsfield School in Bristol work with their students. Following an introduction to a potentially rich starting point, a considerable proportion of the lesson time at Kingsfield is dedicated to working on questions, ideas and conjectures generated by students.
We hope to capture the Kingsfield way of working by offering pupils the chance to work on the projects and share ideas through the NRICH Projects discussion site. We aim to encourage pupils to work together, discuss ideas, develop conjectures, suggest new lines of enquiry, solve problems, and generally experience how a mathematical community functions, both within their own classrooms, and in the wider world. Later in the month, we shall add problems which have been developed from pupils' ideas.
This month
The Teachers' Notes accompanying each project offer guidance to teachers on how the activities could be used in classrooms to lead to rich mathematical activity and discussion.
Recent news from the NRICH team can be found here.
ABOUT NRICH
The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice. More information on many of our other activities can be found here.
On our website you will find thousands of our free mathematics enrichment materials (problems, articles and games) for teachers and learners from ages 5 to 19 years. All the resources are designed to develop subject knowledge, problem-solving and mathematical thinking skills. The website is updated with new material on the first day of every month. For guidance on how to find the right resources for you, go to the Help section of the site.
The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice. More information on many of our other activities can be found here.
On our website you will find thousands of our free mathematics enrichment materials (problems, articles and games) for teachers and learners from ages 5 to 19 years. All the resources are designed to develop subject knowledge, problem-solving and mathematical thinking skills. The website is updated with new material on the first day of every month. For guidance on how to find the right resources for you, go to the Help section of the site.
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NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project, which also includes the Plus and Motivate sites.
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