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Diminishing Returns
How much of the square is coloured blue? How will the pattern continue?
Counting Collections in the Early Years
In this article for practitioners, Cath Gripton and Deliah Pawluch explore the 'counting collections' approach, which encourages children to spend time playing and experimenting with counting.
Shifting Times Tables
Can you find a way to identify times tables after they have been shifted up or down?
Trick or Treat?
Jennifer Piggott and Steve Hewson write about an area of teaching and learning mathematics that has been engaging their interest recently. As they explain, the word 'trick' can be applied to mathematical activity in many ways.
Classifying Solids Using Angle Deficiency
Toni Beardon has chosen this article introducing a rich area for practical exploration and discovery in 3D geometry
Proof: A Brief Historical Survey
If you think that mathematical proof is really clearcut and universal then you should read this article.
Modelling Assumptions in Mechanics
An article demonstrating mathematically how various physical modelling assumptions affect the solution to the seemingly simple problem of the projectile.