Knowing the times tables is vital to success in maths. '...

This times tables game involves children working in pairs using 'target boards' to practise multiplication facts. Children use the ‘target boards’ to choose questions, winning points for each correct answer, the more difficult the multiplication fact the more points they win. Once the question has been answered, it...

This times tables game involves children working in pairs using 'target boards' to practise multiplication facts. Children use the ‘target boards’ to choose questions, winning points for each correct answer, the more difficult the multiplication fact the more points they win. Once the question has been answered it...

This resource focusses on measuring the lengths and widths of leaves from a tree, placing the data in a table and calculating the mean average of each. In this activity learners will measure the lengths and widths of six leaves from a single tree. They will place this data in a table and then calculate the mean...

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 suite of videos, from the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), looks at elements of progression in multiplication across the primary school. The videos are:

Multiple representations of multiplication In the context of children practising table facts and...

This resource support the learning of the language associated with pattern and number sequences. The aim is for students to:

• To identify patterns within certain sequences of numbers;
• To determine whether certain sequences of numbers follow given rules;
• To extend those sequences of...

This STEAM activity gives pupils the opportunity to make and fly loop the loop planes, measure distance travelled appropriately and record data in a table. This maths activity gives pupils the chance to apply their existing understanding of data collection as well as being an introduction to the topic. This is a...

This QCA document describes through case studies and activities how the P scales can be used in a range of educational settings to assess the progress of students.

The P scales were designed, like the programmes of...

This selection of spreadsheets, designed by the Primary National Strategies to aid teaching and learning, tackles multiplication and division in a variety of ways. The five Multiplication and division facts spreadsheets have a four by four blank multiplication table that generates random numbers...

This report from Ofsted looks at the provision for excluded pupils. Schools and local authorities are required to provide full-time and suitable education for pupils from day six of fixed-period and permanent exclusions. This survey evaluates the extent to which a sample of schools and local authorities were...

The number of children aged seven and under who are excluded from primary schools is very small and comprises a tiny proportion of children of this age from a very small proportion of schools. Nevertheless, some children of this age group are receiving fixed-period exclusions, occasionally leading to permanent...

Interactive Teaching Programs (ITPs) are an ICT-based tool developed by the National Strategies to support the teaching of key concepts in mathematics. Where available, manuals which describe how the ITP works and could be used are posted as separate files.

The ITPs here are:

• Moving digits:...

This STEM activity supports pupils to follow a set of verbal instructions to successfully navigate a maze made from tables whilst blindfolded. Pupils will understand the importance of clear instructions when instructing others and to be able to use mathematical vocabulary such as whole, half, quarter and three...

This series of six leaflets from QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority) were produced to exemplify children’s performance in mathematics at levels 2A and 3. They illustrate how judgements of attainment could be made by taking into account strengths and weaknesses...