In this article for primary teachers, Lynne McClure outlines what is meant by fluency in the context of number and explains how our selection of NRICH tasks can help.
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a parallelogram.
How can people be divided into groups fairly for events in the Paralympics, for school sports days, or for subject sets?
On a farm there were some hens and sheep. Altogether there were 8 heads and 22 feet. How many hens were there?
An activity centred around observations of dots and how we visualise number arrangement patterns.
Whether you are reflecting on the mathematical developments children have made over the year, or thinking about activities for a transition day this article offers plenty of ideas and tasks to support you.
This article describes how one nursery setting focused on tidying up time as a context in which to explicitly target the development of number and calculation skills.
This article for teachers describes a joint project in 2007/8 with Haringey Local Authority and NRICH to support improving using and applying mathematics, reasoning and creativity.
