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  • Pupils' recording or pupils recording
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    Pupils' recording or pupils recording

    This article, written for teachers, looks at the different kinds of recordings encountered in Primary Mathematics lessons and the importance of not jumping to conclusions!
  • Adding with the Abacus
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    Adding with the abacus

    Nowadays the calculator is very familiar to many of us. What did people do to save time working out more difficult problems before the calculator existed?
  • Palindromes
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    Palindromes

    Find out about palindromic numbers by reading this article.
  • Path of Discovery Series 3: I do and I understand
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    Path of discovery series 3: I do and I understand

    Marion Bond recommends that children should be allowed to use 'apparatus', so that they can physically handle the numbers involved in their calculations, for longer, or across a wider ability band, than is currently the norm.

  • An Alphanumeric
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    An alphanumeric

    Freddie Manners, of Packwood Haugh School in Shropshire solved an alphanumeric without using the extra information supplied and this article explains his reasoning.
  • Learn About Number Bases
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    Learn about number bases

    We are used to writing numbers in base ten, using 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Eg. 75 means 7 tens and five units. This article explains how numbers can be written in any number base.
  • Dicey Operations in Line
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    Dicey operations in line

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    In these addition, subtraction, multiplication and division games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the target.

  • Dicey Operations
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    Dicey operations

    Age
    7 to 14
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    In these addition and subtraction games, you'll need to think strategically to get closest to the target.

  • Calculator Bingo
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    Calculator bingo

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    This is a game for two players. What must you subtract to remove the rolled digit from your number? The first to zero wins!