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The Standing Disease
This short activity encourages students to consider how diseases spread exponentially in an unvaccinated population.
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Teaching Secondary Mathematics Using NRICH Resources
Alison & Charlie explored how NRICH tasks can be used to develop students' reasoning and fluency through purposeful practice
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Dice
This dice activity encourages children to relate the number on the dice to the number of teddies they need to choose.
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EYFS Thinking About: Obstacle Courses
Read about children's responses to the Obstacle Course activity.
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Birthday Sharing
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It's Sahila's birthday and she is having a party. How could you answer these questions using a picture, with things, with numbers or symbols?
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The Development of Spatial and Geometric Thinking: The Importance of Instruction
This article looks at levels of geometric thinking and the types of activities required to develop this thinking.
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The Importance of Shape and Space in the Early Years
In this article for EY practitioners, Dr Sue Gifford discusses children's early spatial thinking and how this predicts their mathematical understanding and achievement.
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Maths Anxiety – Causes, Consequences, and Cures
Resources for people who attended Charlie and Alison's talk at the 2019 Festival of Ideas
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Impossible Sandwiches
In this 7-sandwich: 7 1 3 1 6 4 3 5 7 2 4 6 2 5 there are 7 numbers between the 7s, 6 between the 6s etc. The article shows which values of n can make n-sandwiches and which cannot.