This page is a "rattle bag" of maths sites - some for teachers, some
for children, some for parents and some for allcomers. Browse through and take your pick.
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Base Ten Block Activities
This site offers on line virtual base 10 blocks (units, tens and hundreds), rather like a
MyWorld page, with a number of activities to use them on.
Better
Thinking Better Mathematics
Part of Swansea University's offering to its PGCE students. A collection of investigations
with explanations of the teaching to be gained from using them.
The
Constants and Equations Page
This is really useful. Do you want to know the mass of the Earth, its volume or the
time of sunrise in Kabul on January 18th? Do you know how many gallons there are in a dry
pint? Do you know what a slug or G-pound is and how many Kg it is equal to? This site has
over 4500 pages of information about scientific, mathematical or astronomical constants
and equations. All those mathematical relationships are here together with some
explanations.
Children's
Mathematics Network
CMN is an
international, non-profit-making organisation for teachers,
practitioners, students, researchers and teacher educators working
with children in the birth-8 year age range. They focus on
children's mathematical graphics and the meanings children make.
Although the site is still a little light on content, what is there
is fascinating and well worth a look. (Oh, and it's a site that
ICTeachers built!)
Encyclogram
This site has a java powered program that draws harmonograms, spirographs, and Lissajous
figures. The decaying motion of the plot fills in the shapes with their spiralling-in
echo. Encyclogram can also draw the curves in varying colours against a black background,
resulting in breath-taking works of art that can be as beautiful as fractals. See the
gallery of examples.
Figure
It!
 
Maths Challenges for Families. Aimed at middle school age children this site offers up to
80 different maths challenges for children and their families to do at home. Each activity
is supported by real world examples, extensions and parents' notes about the mathematics
involved. This is one to recommend to parents or to use to find some interesting homework
tasks.
ICT Games for
Infant Learners
Toftwood Infants' School have produced some useful little number activities using Flash.
(There are also Literacy games here). You can download the Flash Reader from this site, too, if you haven't got it. It's a nice
looking website, too.
Freeware and Shareware for Arithmetic and Mathematics
A number of downloadable resources
Giant Interactive Maths Calculator
A javascript-powered basic calculator that fills the screen. It runs
in a webpage which can be downloaded for use offline. It comes in
two sizes suitable for different screen resolutions. Graham
Jennings, who's site this is on, also has a collection of other
resources.
Hayley's Tables
Multiplication tables. American - yells out if correct and a message if not right....
kids love it!!
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany
Masses of stuff - and just what it says on the tin.
Interactive Teaching Programs and ICT Resources (for teaching
Maths)
This collection of downloadable programs for teaching maths is on
the Department for Educations and Skills' Standards Site. The
programs are excellent (I think) and are ideally suited to using
with your interactive whiteboard. Most of them are interactive Flash
movies and so will work on either PC and Mac. There are about 30
programs, covering a wide range of maths skills and knowledge.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way of downloading them
all at once. Click the link, then scroll down the page.
Logo - MSW Logo page
From here you can download MSW Logo (for a PC - It's free). There are also links to a
number of useful Logo related sites.
Mathematical
Association
"Supporting mathematics in education". Periodicals, meetings,
roadshows etc.
Maths Forum
Enormous and excellent loads of downloadable resources in pdf format suitable KS2 higher
ability& KS3 upwards, some really baffling.
Maths
Online
5 great interactive activities. Here you can play with Archimedes in his bath (Are you,
like me, old enough to remember Eureka?), 2 games about reflections and translations, a
factions version of Kim's game and and angles game.
MathsRoom
This site, produced by
Michael Aitchison, a teacher in Scotland, is a really useful
collection of links and activities for teaching and learning Maths
from Primary through to A level. It looks a little odd to English
eyes because it is categorised by according to the Scottish levels
rather than the English system but, hey! we can figure it out.
MathsWeb
Leicestershire LEA's Numeracy Website. Really useful resources, assessment ideas and
advice, teaching ideas. Well worth a visit.
Mathematics
Worksheet Factory
Create instant, customized, and unlimited maths worksheets for the practice of whole
number, decimal, and fraction operations in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and
division. You need to download the free version of theprogram. Well worth the effort.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
This is the BEST maths thing I have seen in a long time. It
is the outcome of a project based at the University of Utah and
consists of a collection of maths activities designed to engage
children in doing rather than being told about or simply practising
maths." Mathematics," they say on this site, "is not a spectator
sport." There are activities for preschool to upper secondary.
NRich
Mathematical Enrichment Club
Lots of enrichment activities mainly for secondary pupils. Lots of
interactivity.
NRich Primary Maths
A great site with lots of puzzles and games to stretch those mathematical brain cells! It
has a wide variety of interactive pages for children aged 5-16
Number
Crew
channel 4's number site for use with 5-7 yr old bright and interesting useful special
needs as well music and helping animals!
Number Gym
A developing website of free activities which are intended to
give children practice and reinforcement
of number concepts in an enjoyable way. The emphasis is on active
participation rather than passive viewing of Flash presentations.
The activities should be particularly useful with interactive
whiteboards.
Number Puzzles
Monthly puzzles give entertainment and education for all ages (they say although more
suited to KS3 and up). Excellent printable number puzzles, cross puzzles (words and
numbers). Also Interactive puzzles. May be useful as group activity and homework /holiday
work files.
Numeracy
Software
Free downloads of lots of useful files: MSW Logo procedures, Excel spreadsheets for maths
activities and more.
Perfect
Times
A card game for practising times tables skills. You can play the 9
and 24 times games on line or buy the cards (You can also get the CD
from Cambridge University Press).
Plot
the Robot
A maths activity site involving both calculation and use of co-ordinates. This site
includes printable activities and a free downloadable book. The activities involve solving
number problems which allow you to arrive at co-ordinates. When the co-ordinates are
plotted and joined in sequence a picture is generated. Colourful and well worth a look.
Primary Games
From the same stable as Teaching Tables this site has a collection of games to help
children develop and practice their maths skills and knowledge. Some of the games are
quite challenging. (If you like them you can download the games to use offline or buy them
on a CD for about £10).. Excellent.
Primary
Worksheets
Loads of maths worksheets generated before your very eyes! Choose the one you want. Print
it. Click the button to generate a new version. Great!
Problem Solving
This is a must see site! Loads of problems tied to the New Zealand Mathematics Curriculum
but easy to apply to the UK NC. The home page gives a good explanation of what problem
solving is and why it is such a valuable tool for mathematical education. Then there are
problems set at levels 1 to 6 each with specified learning outcomes, extension activities,
resources (including copy masters in English and Maori!), alternative contexts for the
problem and a set out teaching sequence... and all laid out on a simple, quick loading
pages. Excellent!
Spreadsheet
Resources
3 sets of Excel spreadsheets that generate worksheets that can be
used for homework etc..
Stats4Schools
Ideal for anyone wanting to use real life statistics with children.
This site, from the UK Office for National Statistics, provides
lesson plans and real-life data, including some large datasets
(around 1000 records). An excellent resource.
Stroh Math Page
This is a cool website where students can get Algebra Help. They can find
explanations, examples, and practice problems with hints and answers.
Tables Trainer
A computer program to spice up the business of practising tables. It is a commercial
product (but only a fiver) and you can download a demo version to see if you like it.
Teaching Ideas for Primary Maths
Lots of ideas from fellow teachers for maths activities and games to play The site has a
nice clear index page. Don't miss it!
Teaching Tables
A collection of online Flash games and worksheets/ worksheet generators to help children
learn and practice their multiplication tables. Simple and excellent.
Teaching Time
A site with a collection of interactive games and activities to help in teaching about
time. There are also supporting worksheets to download although most of them will only
print if you have paid the modest fee. This is from the same author (Mark Cogan) as the
excellent Primary Games and Teaching
Tables sites.
Time
Have fun with this site! Learn all about time and try some of the exciting activities
which include such interesting topics as Time Machine, Exact Time and Beat the Clock.
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