This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of the properties of number, and a booklet 'Squares and Primes'.

Properties of number pack one contains sixteen work cards with a wide variety of...

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 games to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding...

This Instant Maths Ideas resource from Colin Foster contains two files: Factors, Multiples, Prime Numbers and Divisibility contains 26 instant maths ideas requiring students to use Venn diagrams to show different sets of numbers, explore methods of prime factorisation, devise tests for divisibility, investigate...

This resource written by Shirley Fall has fifteen cards each with a statement about 2-D shapes and how they lie on a 3 by 3 grid. The rationale is for students to discuss the possible options and work towards a solution of which 2-D shape lies in each of the grid cells. Extension questions are also posed.

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This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of the properties of shapes, from identifying shapes to investigating right-angles in polygons.

Properties of shapes pack one contains nine work cards...

This sub-collection of materials from the dy/dan collection contains three resources that bring mathematical storytelling to the classroom in the context of ‘properties of shapes’. Resources comprise:

• Act One: a video or photograph to provide a ‘hook’ to the problem

• Act Two:...

This sub-collection of materials from the dy/dan collection contains five resources that bring mathematical storytelling to the classroom in the context of ‘proportion’. Resources comprise:

• Act One: a video or photograph to provide a ‘hook’ to the problem

• Act Two: further relevant...

These transition lessons from the National Strategies have been developed to support transfer from middle to upper schools but will also support year-on-year transition in Key Stage Three for all secondary schools.

Three pairs of transition lessons are available: • Fractions, decimals and percentages, two...

This lesson develops the concept of producing and evaluating geometrical proofs. In particular students work on:

• Interpreting diagrams
• Identifying mathematical knowledge relevant to an argument
• Linking visual and algebraic representations
• Producing and evaluating mathematical...

In this Bowland assessment task, students are presented with a statement claiming that more than three in five drivers are considering using public transport rather than their cars and are asked to compose a letter explaining why they think the statement may be misleading. Teacher guidance includes concepts which...

These two books from the Shell centre focus on the pure investigations. The pure investigation tasks are, perhaps, rather different from the other two main types of extended task, those of a practical nature and those of an applied nature, in the sense that they allow...

This video, for the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), looks at how water is becoming an increasingly precious resource, even in affluent places like California where the infrastructure is struggling to cope with demand. Engineers have looked at extreme conservation, sea water desalination, importing...