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2010: a year of investigations
This article for teachers suggests ideas for activities built around 10 and 2010.
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A flexible approach to calculating
The tasks in this feature are designed to encourage learners to make, and justify, decisions about the method they use to solve a calculation.
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A good foundation for number learning for five year olds?
This article, written by Dr. Sue Gifford, evaluates the Early Learning Numbers Goal in England, in the light of research.
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A Japanese mathematics lesson
Jenni Way describes her visit to a Japanese mathematics classroom.
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A maths afternoon
This article describes no ordinary maths lesson. There were 24 children, mostly Years 3 and 4, and there were 17 adults working with them - mothers, fathers, one grandmother and two grandfathers, a classroom assistant and their regular teacher. Every child was working with an adult, and no two adults sat together.
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A new challenge
In this article for teachers, Bernard gives some background about the theme for November 2011's primary activities, which focus on analysing different approaches.
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A problem is a problem for all that
In this article, Jennifer Piggott talks about just a few of the problems with problems that make them such a rich source of mathematics and approaches to learning mathematics.
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A random rambling rant
A random ramble for teachers through some resources that might add a little life to a statistics class.
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A selection of group-worthy tasks
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7 to 16
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A collection of group-worthy tasks with Teachers' Resources which outline how teachers can put into practice a Complex Instruction approach in their classrooms.
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ACME report: developing able young mathematicians
Lynne McClure gives an overview of the ACME report 'Raising the bar: developing able young mathematicians', published in December 2012.
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Activities on the Gattegno chart
In this article, Alf outlines six activities using the Gattegno chart, which help to develop understanding of place value, multiplication and division.
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Adventures into the unknown
These activities offer novel situations which will help provoke learners' sense of awe and wonder.
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Aims of the national curriculum
The features on this page are linked to the three aims of the National Curriculum - number fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
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Algebra in the new curriculum
This feature includes articles and tasks which will support you in encouraging algebraic thinking throughout primary school.
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Algebra in the new curriculum
Algebra is only formally mentioned in the new National Curriculum at Year 6. However, we can encourage algebraic thinking from a much younger age. In her article, Anne Watson suggests ways of developing an algebraic, structural understanding of number and arithmetic. Lynne's article builds on this by explaining how the chosen tasks below support Anne's advice.
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Always, sometimes or never tasks
Here you can find all our primary 'always, sometimes or never?' tasks.
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Amount
These tasks will help learners develop their understanding of place value, particularly giving them opportunities to express numbers as amounts.
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Analysing others' reasoning
These tasks have been deliberately designed to integrate learners' work, which makes them a great tool with which to analyse reasoning.