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Charlie has moved between countries and the average income of both has increased. How can this be so?
Guess the Dominoes for child and adult.
'What Shape?' activity for adult and child.
Arranging counters activity for adult and child.
One day five small animals in my garden were going to have a sports day. They decided to have a swimming race, a running race, a high jump and a long jump.
In this article Liz Woodham reflects on just how much we really listen to learners’ own questions to determine the mathematical path of lessons.
You'll need to work in a group on this problem. Can you use your sticky notes to show the answer to questions such as 'how many boys and girls are there in your group?'.
Why does the tower look a different size in each of these pictures?
This task depends on learners sharing reasoning, listening to opinions, reflecting and pulling ideas together.
This task requires learners to explain and help others, asking and answering questions.
This task depends on groups working collaboratively, discussing and reasoning to agree a final product.
Explore Alex's number plumber. What questions would you like to ask? Don't forget to keep visiting NRICH projects site for the latest developments and questions.
This project challenges you to work out the number of cubes hidden under a cloth. What questions would you like to ask?
In this challenge, you will work in a group to investigate circular fences enclosing trees that are planted in square or triangular arrangements.
In this challenge, buckets come in five different sizes. If you choose some buckets, can you investigate the different ways in which they can be filled?
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day of Advent.
What can you see? What do you notice? What questions can you ask?
On this page we give a selection of good starter activities for those new to NRICH
Explore this interactivity and see if you can work out what it does. Could you use it to estimate the area of a shape?
An old game but lots of arithmetic!
Which of these roads will satisfy a Munchkin builder?
Being stuck is usually thought of as being a negative state of affairs. We want our pupils to succeed, not to struggle. Or do we? This article discusses why being stuck can be fruitful.
Some questions and prompts to encourage discussion about what experiences you want to give your pupils to help them reach their full potential in mathematics.
Bernard Bagnall describes how to get more out of some favourite NRICH investigations.
In this article for teachers, Bernard gives an example of taking an initial activity and getting questions going that lead to other explorations.
In the process of working with some groups of teachers on using questions to promote mathematical thinking, the following table was developed. It provides examples of generic questions that can. . . .
Good questioning techniques have long being regarded as a fundamental tool of effective teachers. This article for teachers looks at different categories of questions that can promote mathematical. . . .
