This booklet, from the Mathematics Centre at the University of Chichester, explores how the microcomputer can be a valuable tool when engaged in investigating a situation that leads to such laborious arithmetic that the 'sums' spoil the activity, especially in the...

This Cre8ate maths activity requires students to calculate areas of polygons and to appreciate the link with volumes of prisms. It may also involve detailed exploration of similarity.

This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of coordinates.

The pack contains ten work cards with a wide variety of activities requiring students to use coordinates to solve a coded message, draw a picture, use...

This dot to dot activity, from the Maths of the Month series published by BEAM, challenges students to recognise and sequence numbers from 80 to 104, producing a picture of a house.

*Dot to dot - sequencing two digit numbers.

Published by BEAM, the activity What's what? challenges students to identify numbers and match them to a list of given properties including, negative, square, and mixed numbers before deciding which description(s) fit several numbers. Students are then asked to make up their own descriptions that fit several...

Two games, published by BEAM, to help lower Key Stage Two (Year 3-4) students to develop their counting and sorting skills.
*Big numbers - a game for two players requiring students to use the results of rolling four dice to write down a four digit number and then read out the number written.
*Writing...

These Cre8ate maths activities are provided to introduce students to the fundamental processes involved in programming a computer. Students are given drawings, along with the Logo commands which have been used and, by...

In this activity, primary pupils make use of the theme of the King’s coronation to design a stone garden in the style of a flag or other item to commemorate the event. They will consider the design brief for the criteria, use a template to produce a design on paper, consider the scale for the final display and...

This is one of a set of resources from the IET that uses the theme of the lunar new year to reinforce basic maths skills through the use of Chinese calligraphy. The activity is aimed at key stage 3 pupils with low levels of attainment.

Pupils learn about and make use of Chinese calligraphy. They will learn...

This activity from Cre8ate maths explores the rotational symmetry of carefully chosen crystals. Initially students work with plain and coloured nets of cubes may use trial and improvement methods to find different possible rotations of symmetry, before exploring ways to be systematic in their investigation. For...

This activity from Cre8ate maths explores Platonic solids, which are formed from regular polygons where all their faces are identical and all their vertices are identical too. Students are told that there are only five platonic solids, which they can build using triangles, squares and pentagons. Completing the...

This activity is from the Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) publication ‘Learning and Teaching Without a...

Published by BEAM, this activity for two students uses Venn diagrams to develop an understanding of the intersection of two sets.

About us - an activity for two students. Each student labels one circle of a Venn diagram with their name. Students then take turns to pick a characteristic of themselves. The...

Jingle Bells, a Christmas themed activity, published by BEAM. In this activity, students have to identify a range of musical notes. Students are required to construct a tally chart. From the results of the tally chart a bar chart can be drawn. Students then have to interpret their results by deciding which student...

The complete resource of Data, Numeracy and ICT Instant Maths Ideas contains all eight subject topics together with appropriate resource materials. The ideas are aimed at teachers of Key Stage Three but could also be appropriate for use with other age groups. Each topic contains a number of questions or activities...