This resource from Ofsted, published in May 2012, is a full report and summary of the findings into the teaching of mathematics, based predominantly on evidence from inspections between January 2008 and July 2011 in maintained schools in England. Attention is drawn to serious inequalities in students’ experiences...

The National Curriculum Council (NCC) published non-statutory guidance to support the teaching of mathematics in the National Curriculum in 1989, and again in 1991, to accompany the first revision of the National Curriculum.

This resource from Ofsted is a report published in September 2008, based principally on evidence from inspections of mathematics between April 2005 and December 2007 in 192 maintained schools in England. It describes how the best teaching is enthusiastic, knowledgeable and focused clearly on developing students'...

These resources come from the Maths Careers website, which is managed and maintained by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. The eleven activities in this collection are designed to encourage learner to delve deeper into a wide range of mathematical...

Maths Chest was published in the late 1980s to provide a structured primary scheme which runs from reception through to the end of primary education. It takes into account the needs of the subject, the constraints of a classroom teacher and the development, including language development, of the child at each stage...

These Eigen publications booklets contain a large number of games which almost exclusively focus on developing understanding of number and practicing number skills. Many of the games are 'box games' which involve students putting individual one or two digit numbers into ‘boxes’ to achieve some objective. * ...

These Eigen publications booklets contain a large number of games which almost exclusively focus on developing understanding of number and practicing number skills. Many of the games are ‘box games’ which involve students putting individual one or two digit numbers into...

This Subtangent wordsearch resource provides the opportunity to reinforce topic specific spelling and the terminology used across the mathematical curriculum.

The number of words to be found varies, although most of...

This maths dictionary provided by mathsphere, is likely to be useful for older primary students and their teachers.  It provides a definition for every term teachers are likely to come across when teaching and learning primary mathematics.

This resource from Cre8ate maths investigates the maths found in work by two artists. Both activities have an accessible starting point and both can be extended to provide a real challenge.

An artistic puzzle uses a...