These resources from Shropshire Centre for Mathematics Education contain a selection of ideas, pertinent to a specific theme, designed to develop mathematical thinking skills.

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These resources from Shropshire Centre for Mathematics Education contain a selection of ideas, pertinent to a specific theme, designed to develop mathematical thinking skills.

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This collection of practical activities, investigations and games is all based on current lunar research. It supports many aspects of working scientifically and links to area of the curriculum including: earth and space, light and shadows, forces, materials, changes of state and rocks and soils. Activities are...

Consider the topic that you are next teaching in mathematics, use the charts to find something that children find confusing in this topic. Choose a model or image to support their learning in this area of mathematics. 

This set of charts, from the National Strategies, give examples of key models and images which can enhance the teaching of mental calculation strategies through Years One to Three. In addition, the materials offer a list of potential difficulties and examples to...

The games in this pack, from Shropshire Centre for Mathematics Education, provides students with repeated opportunities to develop skills of counting and exchanging coins, as well as adding coin values mentally. Several of the games can also be extended into puzzles and...

This resource, aimed at early years and lower primary, contains an interactive spread sheet designed to illustrate teaching points on the topics of money. Ideal for use with the whole class at the start or end of a lesson it provides screens on the following:

A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of early years mathematics. It includes challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities, and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding in the topics of money and measurement.

A selection of resources, published by BEAM, for teachers of primary mathematics. It includes challenging problems, puzzles and resources to practise and consolidate students mathematical understanding of money and days of the month.

The activities, with their mathematical content, are:

*Calendar...

Published by BEAM, this collection of games give students opportunities to practise and consolidate their mathematical understanding of money, through coin recognition, counting and matching amounts of money. The games, with their mathematical content, are: *Shopping - matching pence coins to numberals *Coins -...

Published by BEAM, these games require students to play in twos, using coins and dice to develop their knowledge of money and time.

The games, with their mathematical content, are:

*15 pence - using 1p, 2p and 5p coins

*Balloons - counting coins

*Buying toys - reading and saying amounts...

Published by BEAM, this collection provides a selection of resources for teachers of primary and lower secondary mathematics.Included are a number of challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities, and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical...

This game, aimed at primary level, allows children to practice multiplication problems. Children move along a track landing on different numbers, mainly from the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables. To move they must say the pair of numbers (factors) which will multiply together to give a nearby product on the board. The...

This short clip is the first of a suite of videos which look at progression in multiplication at primary level. It follows Sam, a Key Stage One teacher as she reinforces children’s understanding of the concept of multiplication using the interactive whiteboard. Children are asked to match pictorial representations...

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...