London North East Maths Hub - 17th November 2017
Langdon Park School
"I don't expect, and I don't want, all children to find mathematics an engrossing study, or one that they want to devote themselves to either in school or in their lives. Only a few will find mathematics seductive enough to sustain a long term engagement. But I would hope that all children could experience at a few moments in their careers ... the power and excitement of mathematics ... so that at the end of their formal education they at least know what it is like and whether it is an activity that has a place in their future."
David Wheeler
Here are links to the resources that Charlie recommended
Collections of Short Problems linked to the curriculum.
Posters for the classroom.
Some favoutite problems:
Cryptarithms
Dozens
Unequal Averages
Odds, Evens and More Evens
Factors and Multiples Game
(100 squares available to print in Resources page)
Multiples Sudoku and Product Sudoku
You may also be interested in our book Approaches to learning and teaching Mathematics
"A teacher of mathematics has a great opportunity. If he fills his allotted time with drilling his students in routine operations he kills their interest, hampers their intellectual development, and misuses his opportunity. But if he challenges the curiosity of his students by setting them problems proportionate to their knowledge, and helps them to solve their problems with stimulating questions, he may give them a taste for, and some means of, independent thinking."
Polya, G. (1945) How to Solve it