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Developing a classroom culture that supports a problem-solving approach to mathematics
This article offers you practical ways to investigate aspects of your classroom culture.
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Shifting times tables
11 to 14
Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?
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Exploring the challenge of online mediation
This reports on students’ responses to a mathematical problem
from the NRICH website. In particular, we were interested in
students’ responses to a question that provided an unusual
challenge. We have used the findings to suggest mediation
strategies that could be offered on a website to meet the needs of
all learners. These mediation strategies take into account the
strategies used by teachers in classrooms.
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Impuzzable
This is about a fiendishly difficult jigsaw and how to solve it
using a computer program.
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Factors and multiples game
7 to 16
A game in which players take it in turns to choose a number. Can you block your opponent?
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Cyclic quadrilaterals
11 to 16
Draw some quadrilaterals on a 9-point circle and work out the angles. Is there a theorem?
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Escape from the castle
7 to 14
Skippy and Anna are locked in a room in a large castle. The key to that room, and all the other rooms, is a number. The numbers are locked away in a problem. Can you help them to get out?
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Irrational arithmagons
16 to 18
Can you work out the irrational numbers that belong in the circles to make the multiplication arithmagon correct?
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Difference of two squares
14 to 16
What is special about the difference between squares of numbers adjacent to multiples of three?
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Maths makes a difference
Recording and links to the resources used during the MMAD webinar on 2nd February 2021.