These three resources, from the National Strategies, focus on solving problems.

Logic problems and puzzles...

This guidance is aimed at businesses and other organisations looking to provide support and inspiration for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in schools.  It is based on consultation with teachers, further developed through debate between teachers, businesses and learned societies.  Teachers...

Aimed at primary level, this resource contains an interactive spreadsheet designed to illustrate different types of quadrilaterals. Each page provides colourful examples of the following: square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, kite, trapezium and arrowhead.

This resource contains an interactive spreadsheet designed to illustrate teaching points and which could be used as the basis of investigations which involve reasoning about number and shape. Each page of the spreadsheet contains a different activity:

This booklet from the National Numeracy Strategy was written to help students: * solve mathematical problems or puzzles, recognise and explain patterns and relationships, generalise and predict; * explain methods and reasoning orally and in writing; * suggest extensions by asking ‘What if …?’ All the activities...

This resource aimed at the Early Years, provides two weekly plans which help support children in counting and addition. The objectives covered in the lessons include reciting numbers to 10, then 20, counting to 10, matching one-to-one, recognising numbers, matching numerals to quantities and ordering numerals to 10...

This resources aimed at EYFS learners, provides two weekly plans which help support children in:

• Reciting numbers to 100
• Counting 20 objects
• Ordering numbers
• Counting back
• Estimating
• Counting objects, actions and sounds
• Ordinal numbers

This resource aimed at the Early Years, provides two weekly plans which help support children in counting and addition. The objectives covered in the lessons include:

• Counting in 1s and 10s to 100
• Counting at least 20 objects
• Adding 1, 2 or 3 to any number to 20 by counting on,
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This resource has been created for mixed age classes of early years and lower primary children. Containing two weekly plans which support learning about number, place value and addition, objectives covered in the lessons include:

Week One

• Counting up to 10, then 20 objects...

This resource has been created for mixed age classes of early years and lower primary children. Supporting learning about number, place value and addition, the detailed weekly plans contain differentiated activities for the different year groups, guided tasks and the resources required for each lesson. Objectives...

The Researching Effective CPD in Mathematics Education (RECME) project was set up under the umbrella of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) in England, who provide these resources.

The project's aim was to provide advice, guidance and recommendations to be used by NCETM...

The MEP Scheme of Work, provided by the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, is clearly specified for Years One to Six and is part of a complete Year 1 to Year 11 plan with associated written and mental tests. There is a focus on numeracy skills in the early years but maths is treated as an integrated...

These Nuffield Mathematics Project guides focus on shape and size. Shape and size 2 is the first guide from the Nuffield Project to be concerned with shape and size although there was some preliminary material in Beginnings. The guide has three sections: a general introduction, ideas and topics...

The activities in this booklet are intended to help students visualise and describe shapes and their properties. The purpose of the activities is to encourage students to picture things in their mind and use mathematical vocabulary to describe them, this was a key feature of the National Numeracy Strategy.

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Aimed at primary level, this pack contains a range of different activities which take sixty seconds and are intended to stretch the imagination. The activities cover a mixture of topics including: materials and their properties, Earth and space, forces, living things and their habitats, mathematical puzzles and...