Past Primary Teacher features

The tasks in this feature for Primary teachers will provide opportunities for learners to dig deeply into geometrical ideas.

New term, new classes? Playing with dice can tell you a lot about how your new pupils think.

The low threshold high ceiling activities in this feature are ideal for supporting and challenging whole classes.

Playing around with numbers is an essential part of being a mathematician...

This collection of activities allows you to focus on children's own representations and recordings.

These activities encourage children to work systematically in a variety of contexts.

These activities are particularly good for challenging high-attaining primary children.

This collection of tasks encourages children to build group-working skills.

The tasks in this collection encourage children to create, recognise, extend and explain number patterns.

These strategy games are a great way of helping children develop logical thinking.

This feature brings together a range of activities which involve the use of counters.

This feature brings together activities which make use of a geoboard or pegboard.

This feature brings together tasks which make use of interlocking cubes.

This feature details how NRICH can help you embed a problem-solving approach in your classroom.

In this feature we offer rich tasks to build learners' deep conceptual understanding of fractions.

In this feature for Primary teachers, we offer a selection of geometrical tasks that lend themselves to 'proof through words'.

The tasks in this Primary feature offer opportunities to dig deeply into number, place value and calculation.

This feature aims to support you in developing children's early number sense and understanding of place value.

This feature brings together tasks which help to develop learners' fluency in the context of number and calculation.

This feature includes articles and tasks which will support you in encouraging algebraic thinking throughout primary school.

This feature draws together tasks which give learners opportunities to reason for different purposes.

This feature focuses on generalising and proving.

This feature will help you embed the three aims of the curriculum into the teaching and learning of geometry.

These tasks offer opportunities for deepening learners' mathematical understanding and their positive learning dispositions.

In this feature, we share some of the problems from the Open Spaces pathway on Wild Maths.

In this feature, we share some of the problems from the Play to Win pathway on Wild Maths.

This feature brings together hidden gems from the NRICH site to celebrate NRICH's 20th birthday.

This feature outlines aspects to consider to create a space in which problem solving can flourish.

This feature focuses on how children's solutions to NRICH tasks can themselves be used as a teaching resource.

The focus of this feature is to show that every lesson can be a problem solving lesson.

Calling all maths detectives! This feature focuses on lots of fun problems for children to solve.

This feature explores how teachers can harness the power of curiosity by using some tasks that may cause children to wonder!

This feature contains some tricky tasks that you will need to work hard at in order to succeed

This feature for primary teachers includes tasks with an element of surprise.

These tasks encourage learners to look at a familiar context through a new lens.

These activities offer novel situations which will help provoke learners' sense of awe and wonder.

The tasks in this feature for Primary teachers will help you to develop learners' awareness of pattern and will serve as a springboard to exploring mathematical structures.

This feature for primary teachers brings together tasks with interactivities to stimulate learners' curiosity.

In this feature for Primary teachers, we offer a selection of numerical tasks that lend themselves to 'proof through words'.

Take maths outside the classroom with the tasks in this feature for Primary teachers.

These tasks, chosen from our 2022 summer challenges, are particularly suitable for the start of term, when you are getting to know your learners.

This feature for primary teachers focuses on representing mathematical thinking in different ways.

The tasks in this feature have been designed to encourage learners to be curious about different routes to a solution.

The tricks in this feature will capture children's curiosity, motivating them to explore and explain.

The tasks in this feature encourage learners to become fluent with times tables, but with a difference...

The problems in this feature will help to inspire your learners to be playful, become engaged, and then think deeply about the mathematical contexts that underpin them.

The tasks in this feature use Cuisenaire rods to help learners visualise and explore the links to be made between proportionality, equivalence, comparison, difference and pattern.

This feature offers interactive 'matching pairs' games which will help learners understand equivalence in a variety of contexts.

This feature is packed with activities and games for learners to work on at home, without a teacher.

In this feature, we offer sets of linked tasks which will help develop learners as mathematicians.

The tasks in this feature are designed to encourage learners to make, and justify, decisions about the method they use to solve a calculation.

In this feature for Primary teachers, you will find tasks to help learners develop their flexibility in a geometrical context.

This feature for primary teachers focuses on the concept of equivalence, and showcases our balance interactivity in several guises.

In this feature for Primary teachers, we offer a range of data handling activities which capitalise on learners' natural curiosity.

In this feature for Primary teachers, we encourage learners to play with factors and multiples, which will help develop their 'feel' for numbers.

This feature offers a variety of playful contexts in which pupils will be challenged to think ahead and modify their tactics as they become more expert at each of the games.

These tasks offer an engaging way for learners to deepen their understanding of place value.

The problems and games in this feature for Primary teachers will challenge your learners to visualise quadrilaterals.

These tasks, chosen from our 2023 summer challenges, are particularly suitable for the start of the year, when you are getting to know your learners.

In this feature for Primary teachers, we introduce our Mathdoku, a mathematical version of the well-known Sudoku.

To celebrate the 2016 Olympics, we have brought together these tasks which have a sporting context.

This feature offers a range of tasks which could be used to reflect on learning or used to plan transition days

This feature supports primary teachers in developing learners' problem-solving and group-working skills using tasks created for the Young Mathematicians' Award.

Children need opportunities to play around with shapes as well as meeting them formally. These activities combine the two.