Maths

[|Maths Games]  This website gives fun, mathematical games that children can play to help consolidate their knowledge.

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 []  Do you want to help your child with mathematics? Do you teach mathematics? If so, this is the site for you. MathSphere contains mathematics worksheets for children and a mathematics site for teachers and parents to download practice worksheets and tests to improve children’s achievement. Includes competitions, children’s pages and children’s contributions as well.

 []  These are not word problems in the usual sense but maths questions. An excellent site with graded maths problems requiring a great deal of thought, this presents a really good challenge. The pages include hints if students get really stuck and, with careful planning, they could be usefully incorporated into the Daily Maths Lesson.

 []  B’ham City Council free maths software to download, fractions and times tables

 [] |[]  Investigate tessellation through a variety of activities combining mathematics with language and art. These lesson plans and templates, although devised for American fifth grade students, contain ideas which can be adapted for use in Key Stage 1 and 2 classrooms and the Daily Maths Lesson.

 [] Beam is a mathematics development project for nursery, primary, special and lower secondary teachers.

 [|http://www.learn.co.uk] Guardian hosted site, aims to offer UK school students and teachers top quality on-line lessons and learning materials. It’s in-depth, interactive, utterly reliable and fun.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [] Come and surf our project library! Experience a real interactive and dynamic world with you in control. If you haven’t downloaded our free Web Player, do it now so you can see the projects on your computer. Then experiment on-line with a broad range of subjects: from games to art, language arts to math. All the projects have a common thread: they were created with MicroWorlds, the most powerful Logo ever.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> @http://www.dfes.gov.uk/numeracy The National Numeracy FrameworkUse this site to plan your numeracy hour. Planning grids, teaching programmes and assessment activities are all done for you and the Q and A section has plenty of advice on how to organise your lessons

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [] "Count On": An excellent site with lots of links to other maths sites well worth a visit.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [] The activities are designed to cause students to think; they are not algorithmic. They do not say, To add fractions, do step one, step two, step three. Students will explore geometric models of fractions and discover relations among them.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|www.primaryresources.co.uk] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This site provides a range of lesson plan ideas and a collection of games and puzzles to support learning in various aspects of numeracy. Number problems are applied to different mathematical contexts, including time problems, weight, capacity, fractions, coordinates and probability.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> @http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ A collection of teaching resources for teachers, including many worksheets that can be downloaded. The site also contains many ideas for number games and puzzles and practical activities for use in the classroom.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://www.schoolfriend.com Site designed by a father to provide interactive support for pupils maths skills, and tied into the requirements of SATS/Exams etc. Reported recently in Evening Standard, positively.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This is a useful booklist for Nursery and Primary teachers enabling mathematical concepts to be introduced or extended through stories. It broadly divides maths into the following categories: addition, counting, estimating, fractions, geometry, graphing, measurement, money, multiplication and division, and number sense. There are plenty of suggestions for each category, and the site is a good way to combine the Literacy Hour with the Daily Maths Lesson.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> An exciting and colourful introduction to tessellation. The site contains information on the mathematics, history, and application of tessellation as well as images and animations of many real-life examples, including the art work of M. C. Escher. With many hands-on activities and templates, this site provides a useful resource for all Key Stages.