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Welcome to the September edition of NRICH, the maths enrichment site.

This site supports teachers and learners of mathematics with thousands of free resources which are designed to develop subject content knowledge and problem-solving and thinking skills. We aim to offer engaging and challenging problems, articles and interactive environments that offer opportunities for exploration.

Go to Stage 1 & 2 if you are interested in mathematics at a level usually encountered at primary school.
Go to Stage 2 & 3 if you are interested in mathematics at a level usually encountered at lower secondary school.
Go to Stage 3 & 4 if you are interested in mathematics at a level usually encountered at upper secondary school.
Go to Stage 4 & 5 if you are interested in mathematics usually encountered at post-16 level.

NRICH News

Curriculum

We have been working hard on teachers' notes for many of our problems over the summer. All Stage 1 and 2 problems on our Curriculum Mapping documents now have detailed notes with Stages 3, 4 and 5 following close behind. The process mapping documents give guidance on the potential problem solving skills learners can develop when working with each problem.

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Professional Development

The NRICH Team is offering a free professional development programme for mathematics teachers at maintained sector schools/colleges in the UK. The Teacher Inspiration programme will be delivered as 3 one-day events over the course of the 2008/9 academic year.

The programme is aimed at teachers of mathematics at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. The aim of the professional development programme is to support mathematics teachers who are committed to nurturing confident, resourceful and enthusiastic learners.

Dates for the programme are 24th October 2008, 19th March 2009 and 3rd July 2009.

Each Teacher Inspiration event will be a full day, held at the University of Cambridge, with a mix of plenary speaker sessions and intensive hands-on workshops. The days will link together with participants encouraged to try out and share ideas between sessions. Preference will therefore be given to teachers who can attend all three days of the programme.

Schools are encouraged to send up to two teachers to all three days. The Goldman Sachs Foundation has generously provided support to enable us to offer free places to mathematics teachers at maintained sector schools in the UK.

The last deadline for applications is 30th September 2008. Places are limited so an early response is encouraged. Full details are given in the flyer

To apply please complete and return the registration form (this can also be downloaded from the MMP website ). We will contact you to confirm your place.

The new site

We thought it was time for a change, so we'll shortly be saying goodbye to the jungle and ice imagery that has adorned the NRICH site for the last few years. Just so you know what to expect, the new design will look something like the thumbnail image below. We've gone for a less noisy design that has plenty of white space to set off the all-important content. Hope you like it!

Redesigned home page

Reaching Safari, Opera and the rest

Thanks to some sterling work by our Summer vacation students, the new site now uses jsMath for all mathematical notation. This is great news as it is no longer necessary to download special plug-ins to view the mathematics properly, and for the first time you'll be able to view the site properly in the Safari and Opera web browsers. To find out more about jsMath, click on the small button that appears on the bottom right of every page.

More Maths Grads

Launched in 2007, more maths grads is a three year project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England whose goal is to ensure the UK has the mathematical skills it needs for the future. By engaging young people in stimulating maths activities MMG shows maths isn't just about numbers - it's the comprehensive skill set that leads to dazzling futures!