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Almost One

11 to 14

Choose some fractions and add them together. Can you get close to 1?

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Using Questioning to Stimulate Mathematical Thinking

5 to 14

Good questioning techniques have long being regarded as a fundamental tool of effective teachers. This article for teachers looks at different categories of questions that can promote mathematical thinking.

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From Objects and Images to Mathematical Ideas

5 to 18

This article looks at how images, concrete apparatus and representations can help students develop deeper understandings of abstract mathematical ideas.

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How Old?

7 to 11

Cherri, Saxon, Mel and Paul are friends. They are all different ages. Can you find out the age of each friend using the information?

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Open Boxes

7 to 11

Can you work out how many cubes were used to make this open box? What size of open box could you make if you had 112 cubes?

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Probability Calculations From Tree Diagrams

11 to 16

Progression from natural frequencies to proportions to the multiplication rule, and hence to probability trees.

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The Development of Spatial and Geometric Thinking: Co-Ordinating Space in Drawings

5 to 7

This second article in the series refers to research about levels of development of spatial thinking and the possible influence of instruction.

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Farey Sequences

11 to 14

There are lots of ideas to explore in these sequences of ordered fractions.

Tracking Back Study - detailed findings

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Tracking Back Study - Detailed Findings

Detailed findings from the Tracking Back study

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Powerful Hypothesis Testing

16 to 18

How effective are hypothesis tests at showing that our null hypothesis is wrong?