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Welcome to NRICH.

Teaching and Learning Maths

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Teaching methods and resources

• Teaching maths at home
• Problems for 8-9 year olds
• "Minus times a minus is a plus"
• Language in Mathematical Education
• CAME project
• CAME project: what do you think?
• Problem Solving: does a context help?
• Teaching and learning calculus
• BODMAS
• Article: Hands-On Maths
• Article: Hands-On Maths Roadshow 2001
• Article: The 1999 Cricket World Cup: A simulation game for the classroom
• Article: Inter-School Mathematics
• Article: To Prove or not to Prove
• Article: What is the Circle Scribe Disk Compass?

Questions from pupils about learning more maths

• Maths Masterclasses
• More advanced maths for 14 year olds: includes recommended reading
• Early Exam Entry - Fast Tracking - Pros and Cons
• Exam technique: is it advisable to use methods beyond the syllabus?
• "Beyond the scope of this book" - Isn't it annoying
• What is pure mathematics? What is statistics?
• Module choice for maths AS/A2-level

See separate indexes for

• Applying to university
• STEP

Reading recommendations

See new AskNRICH section for more recommendations.

• Maths books I have liked
• Books for an adult learning maths
• More advanced maths for 14 year olds: includes recommended reading
• Recommended reading
• Reading recommendations (pre-university)
• Book of problems (pre-university level)
• Books bridging from A-level to university level
• Partial Differentiation Book

Discussions of curriculum

• Maths is not important enough to be a compulsory subject in school
• Criteria for the identification of "Gifted and Talented" pupils in secondary schools: some pupil views
• Should eleven year olds take exams designed for 16 year olds?
• Motivating A-level maths students, and comparison of examination systems
• Module choice for maths AS/A2-level
• Articles: Roasting Old Chestnuts
• Article: Euclid? No, but Carole, yes.
• Articles: NRICH worldwide

Miscellaneous

• 5 yr old to get GCSE - any advice?
• Teaching: a teacher is quizzed