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There are 50 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Rich Tasks, you may find related items under Mathematics education and research.
Broad Topics > Mathematics education and research > Rich TasksThis is the introductory page of a set of resources designed to support teachers in using rich tasks in their daily mathematics lesson.
In this very brief article, the NRICH Team outlines what they understand by the term 'rich mathematics'.
This article for primary teachers outlines the reasons for us selecting the tasks in our Hidden Gems Feature.
Find out about the five-term project (January 2014 to July 2015) which NRICH is leading in conjunction with Haringey Council, funded by London Schools Excellence Fund.
This article, written for primary teachers, links to rich tasks which will help develop the underlying concepts associated with fractions and offers some suggestions for models and images that help support ideas around fractions.
In this article for teachers, we explain what is meant by Low Threshold High Ceiling tasks, and why we like them.
This article for teachers suggests activities based on pegboards, from pattern generation to finding all possible triangles, for example.
This article for teachers describes NRICH's work from 2010 to 2011 with Creative Partnerships and three Bristol primary schools.
Liz Woodham describes a project with four primary/first schools in the East of England, focusing on rich mathematical tasks and funded by the NCETM.
This article explores the key features of a Low Threshold High Ceiling classroom.
This is the second part of an article describing the ‘Enriching Mathematics’ project in Devon in 2008-9. The participating teachers describe NRICH activities they have tried with their learners.
It began in Devon in 2008. The Maths Team was keen to raise the profile of mathematics investigations and further promote mathematical thinking and problem solving in primary classes. Liz was invited to Devon to launch ‘Enriching Mathematics’ with a group of 25 teachers.
In this article, read about the thinking behind the September 2010 secondary problems and why we hope they will be an excellent selection for a new academic year.
Here are examples of how two schools set about the task of ensuring that problem solving was an integral part of their curriculum.
A useful entry point into the NRICH site for those students interested in Mathematical Olympiad problems or the Maths Challenges.
In this article Jenny talks about Assessing Pupils' Progress and the use of NRICH problems.
Alf and Tracy explain how the Kingsfield School maths department use common tasks to encourage all students to think mathematically about key areas in the curriculum.
Liz Woodham describes a project which took place in 2007-9 working with three primary schools. It aimed to improve mathematics teaching and learning, and to trial and refine an online professional development resource.
In this article for teachers, Liz Woodham describes the criteria she uses to choose mathematical games for the classroom and shares some examples from NRICH.
A group of teachers involved in embedding NRICH tasks into their everyday practice were keen to challenge common perceptions of mathematics and of teaching and learning mathematics. In this article, the teachers share what they are doing to change perceptions in their schools.
The teachers involved in the Engaging Mathematics Projectwanted to embed rich tasks from the NRICH website into their curriculum for all KS3 and KS4 students. In this article, the teachers share the issues they needed to consider and what they are doing to address them.
A group of teachers involved in embedding NRICH tasks into their everyday practice decided they needed to address the (im)balance between teacher and student activity in their classrooms. In this article they share the issues they identified and what they have been doing to address them.
As teachers, we appreciate the need to have clear objectives at the start of lessons but have been aware of the limitations this sometimes seems to place on our ability to get the most out of using rich tasks. In this article we talk about how we managed this tension.
Teachers who participated in an NRICH workshop produced some posters suggesting how they might use a tessellation interactivity in a range of situations.
This is the section of stemNRICH devoted to the advanced applied mathematics underlying the study of the sciences at higher levels
engNRICH is the area of the stemNRICH Advanced site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of engineering
PhysNRICH is the area of the StemNRICH site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of physics
chemNRICH is the area of the stemNRICH site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of chemistry, designed to help develop the mathematics required to get the most from your study of chemistry at A-level and university.
Kirsti Ashworth, an NRICH Teacher Fellow, talks about her experiences of using rich tasks.
An article that reminds us about the value and importance of communication in the mathematics classroom.
This gives a standard set of questions and tips for running rich tasks in the classroom.
Need some help getting started with solving and thinking about rich tasks? Read on for some friendly advice.
Here we describe the essence of a 'rich' mathematical task
This professional development activity is designed to help you assess your embedding of rich tasks into the curriculum and, in particular, think about what to do next
This professional development activity is designed to help you assess your embedding of rich tasks into the curriculum through evaluating a theme
This professional development activity encourages you to investigate how rich tasks and problem solving link together.
bioNRICH is the area of the stemNRICH site devoted to the mathematics underlying the study of the biological sciences, designed to help develop the mathematics required to get the most from your study of biology at A-level and university.
This professional development activity is designed to help you assess your embedding of rich tasks into the curriculum through peer observation
The aim of this professional development activity is to successfully integrate some rich tasks into your curriculum planning.
This professional development activity looks at what teachers can do to support learners engaging with rich tasks
This professional development activity encourages you to investigate what is meant by higher-order thinking skills.
These two tasks are designed to support professional development on integrating rich tasks. You are asked to think about what problems that encourage Higher Order Thinking Skills look like.
This is activity 1.1 in the series of activities designed to support professional development through integrating rich tasks. This activity looks specifically at what makes an activity "rich".
An article for teachers based on a lecture and workshop activities at the NZAMT conference in New Zealand 2007
Following on from a workshop at an MA Easter conference, Jennifer and Jenni talked about the way in which the website is made more accessible to teachers who want to plan threads of activity. Here’s a pattern- based theme.
What are rich tasks and contexts and why do they matter?
Avril Crack describes how she went about planning and setting up a Maths trail for pupils in Bedfordshire.
This article discusses the findings of the 1995 TIMMS study how to use this information to close the performance gap that exists between nations.
The content of this article is largely drawn from an Australian publication by Peter Gould that has been a source of many successful mathematics lessons for both children and student-teachers. It presents a style of problem-solving activity that has the potential to benefit ALL children in a class, both mathematically and socially, and is readily adaptable to most topics in mathematics curricula.
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.