Teacher webinars for the PTI
This online course offered teachers an opportunity to reflect on how to teach Maths in an engaging, connected and enriching way https://nrich.maths.org/enriching
We explored how tasks from the NRICH Secondary Curriculum map can be used to develop students' reasoning and problem solving skills while offering opportunities to build fluency through purposeful practice https://nrich.maths.org/secondary-curriculum
June 2020:
Factors, Multiples and Primes using rich tasks
Tasks featured:
Dozens, Factors and Multiples Game, Counting Factors
December 2020:
Averages using rich tasks
Tasks featured:
M, M and M, Unequal Averages, For Richer for Poorer, Wipeout
March 2021:
Patterns and Sequences using rich tasks
Tasks featured:
Seven Squares, Steel Cables, Marbles in a Box, Shifting Times Tables, Charlie's Delightful Machine
June 2021:
Geometrical Reasoning using rich tasks
Tasks featured:
Polygon Rings, Cyclic Quadrilaterals, Kite in a Square, Quad in Quad and Alison’s Geogebra interactivity
Also mentioned Tilted Squares
December 2021:
Teaching Fractions using rich tasks
Tasks featured:
Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow..., Keep it Simple, Egyptian Fractions, Almost One, Terminating or Not
March 2022:
Perimeter and Area using rich tasks
Tasks featured:
Perimeter Possibilities, Changing Areas, Changing Perimeters, Growing Rectangles, Perimeter Challenge, Shear Magic
June 2022:
Probability using rich tasks
Tasks featured:
In the Bag, Odds and Evens, Last One Standing, Same Number!
November 2022:
Place Value and Rounding
Tasks featured:
Dicey Operations, More Less is More - dice and spinners, Add to 200, Place your orders, Subtraction surprise, Number lines in disguise
February 2023:
Functions and Graphs
Tasks featured:
Route to Infinity, Reflecting Lines, Translating Lines, Diamond Collector, Parabolic Patterns
June 2023:
3-Dimensional Thinking
Tasks featured:
Cuboid Challenge, Boxed In, Changing Area, Changing Volumes, 3D Treasure Hunt
November 2023:
Ratio, proportion and rates of change
Tasks featured (see nrich.maths.org/ptiratio):
Mixing Lemonade, Warmsnug Double Glazing, Flapjack, Fruit Basket Ratio, Printer Ink, Don’t be late, Leg it, Late for Work, Temperature
March 2024:
Creating and manipulating linear and quadratic expressions
Tasks featured:
Perimeter Expressions, Summing Consecutive Numbers, Pair Products
Related short problems Starting Fibonacci, Big Fibonacci, Little Difference
June 2024:
Coordinates and Vectors
Tasks featured:
Isosceles Triangles, Route to Infinity, Opposite Vertices, Square Coordinates, Vector Journeys, Tilted Squares and video of a lesson using Tilted Squares