On this page, you will find four groups of resources which will help you embed problem solving into your curriculum:
- Curriculum Mapping Documents
- Features
- Collections
- Resources to develop Mathematical Habits of Mind.
If you are an Early Years practitioner, you may well find our Early Years homepage more appropriate than this one.
To find out about the thinking that informs the development of these tasks, read What We Think and Why We Think it.
Our Curriculum Mapping Documents link NRICH tasks to curriculum objectives.
Primary Curriculum Mapping Documents
Our features gather together tasks and articles around a theme. They are very usefully explored during a staff meeting, for example. Our features generally fall into one of the following four categories:
Aims of the National Curriculum
Key National Curriculum Content
Manipulatives
Pedagogy
Successful mathematicians understand curriculum concepts, are fluent in mathematical procedures, can solve problems, explain and justify their thinking, and have a positive attitude towards learning mathematics.
For problems arranged by curriculum topic and age group, see our Primary Curriculum Mapping Document.
The tasks, with short descriptions, also appear in the collections below, organised using the same curriculum headings.
For problems arranged by mathematical thinking skills, see our Mathematical Thinking page
For problems arranged by mathematical mindsets, see our Mathematical Mindsets page
Statistics
Successful mathematicians understand curriculum concepts, are fluent in mathematical procedures, can solve problems, explain and justify their thinking, and have a positive attitude towards learning mathematics.
Being curious, resourceful, resilient and collaborative are all valuable mathematical mindsets. We hope the activities below will give learners opportunities to develop these desirable characteristics.
For problems arranged by curriculum topic, see our Primary Curriculum page
For problems arranged by mathematical thinking skills, see our Mathematical Thinking page