This resource asks students to consider the properties of 'number cubes' - or dice. There are three questions to investigate, including rearranging the dots so that the difference between opposite sides is always constant. The extension ask students to consider different kinds of dice and an invitation to think of...

This resource bank consists of 16 activities exploring and investigating polygons. The activities include:

• The 'make a polygon' game for two players
• Making polygons using a pinboard
• Investigating the number of diagonals in a polygon
• Exploring the shapes and tessellation...

This resource contains 21 instant maths ideas designed to explore the properties of polygons. Practical activities include creating polygons by folding newspaper, exploring the number of triangles that can be drawn on a triangular dotted grid and creating, naming and classifying quadrilaterals. Students are asked...

This resource contains a collection of interactive pictures designed to illustrate the position of an object in relation to other things. Objects are positioned at different places on a picture and the correct word is selected to describe where the object is in relation...

This excel file deals with the four operations on positive and negative numbers giving practice at a variety of calculations.

The first interactive sheet shows a table with -5 to 5 both along the top and down the side...

Power for Young Mathematicians was first published in March 1988 as a submission by MESU (The Micro-Electronics Support Unit) to the National Curriculum Mathematics Working Party.

At the time of publication, computers were relatively new to many schools and there was much debate about how they could be used...

This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of powers and roots, from identifying square numbers to investigating numbers expressed as powers.

Powers and roots pack one contains twelve work cards...

This resource focusses on probability, using the act of taking an item of fruit at random from a bag. In this activity learners will develop understanding of the possible outcomes of simple random events. They will also understand that there is a degree of uncertainty about the outcome of some events. The teacher...

These materials, produced by the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) for the primary extension of the Mathematics Enhancement Programme, include the pages from Practice Book 3a with detailed lesson plans and all necessary resources to accompany them....

These materials, produced by the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT), for the primary extension of the Mathematics Enhancement Programme, include the pages from Practice Book 3b with detailed lesson plans and all necessary resources to accompany them. It follows on from Practice Book 3a.

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These materials, produced by the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) for the primary extension of the Mathematics Enhancement Programme, include the pages from Practice Book 4a with detailed lesson plans and all necessary resources to accompany them.

Students increase their mathematical...

These materials, produced by the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) for the primary extension of the Mathematics Enhancement Programme, include the pages from Practice Book 4b with detailed lesson plans and all necessary resources to accompany them. It follows on from Practice Book 4a.

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These materials, produced by the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) for the primary extension of the Mathematics Enhancement Programme, include the pages from Practice Book 5a with detailed lesson plans and all necessary resources to accompany them. Within these resources students review number...

These materials, produced by the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) for the primary extension of the Mathematics Enhancement Programme, include the pages from Practice Book 5b with detailed lesson plans and all necessary resources to accompany them. It...