Past primary teacher features

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

This feature focuses on generalising and proving.

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

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

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

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