Number
This section of the website has all the resources associated with the teaching and learning of NUMBER. The section is subdivided in to the sections below where you can find teaching activities that help you to engage your classes with the key mathematical ideas and help to practise working and thinking with them! Here you can see All Number Activities in one place.
Operations, Multiples & Factors
This section covers key arithmetic principles of operations, multiples and factors with a range of activities!The following activities are all designed to help teachers engage their students with these...
Fractions, Decimals & Percentages
These are key ways of representing numbers and proportions. Understanding their equivalences and being fluent with manipulating them is essential for working with number and also underpin many other mathematical...
Accuracy & Estimation
So much of our worl is iscussed and described in terms of approximate quantities. Understanding the significance of such approximations is cimportant.The following activities are all designed to help...
Powers, roots & scientific notation
Index notation is an important conceptual leap and good example of how notation develops from a need to express numbers, quantities and calculations efficiently.The following activities are all designed...
Ratio & Proportion
Closely related to work on Fractions, Decimals & Percentages there are some important conceptual leaps to make about relative amount proportion.The following activities are all designed to help teachers...
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Euro2016 Betting: Fract,dec,% Free
Betting odds are an everyday example that seem so simple, yet actually require a lot of mathematical thinking to fully understand....
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Logarithms: What are they? History & Applications Free
Have you worked it out yet: 984 876 543 210 x 875 622 375 933 ? Compare methods in the class - have we all used the same...
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Standard Form: Investigation Free
If we look at the numbers in the picture on the left they can look confusing, but they are easier to interpret and understand...
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Percentage Investments Free
Sometimes our intuition/gut feeling for numbers can lead us astray.What's the best way your parents could help to make your...
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Add Subtract Fractions Free
The following geogebra activities require you to move the slider and find a common slice of pie that fits perfectly into...
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Multiple Factors Free
Take a look at the picture in theis photo.Can you work out what numbers the design represents and what factors were used...