Mathematics
- Elaine's ResourcesReview the items below to get some new ideas for activities and resources to assist with mathematics across the primary curriculum.
I would be interested to hear of any websites or resources that you have found useful. If any school has made changes to their delivery of mathematics in the light of A Curriculum for Excellence please let me know. Email me your news and views – Elaine.
The 100plus Board
A multi-purpose numeracy resource. Each of the 132 blocks slide, rotate and lock, enabling the teacher to blank/conceal, reveal, split or group numbers instantly for activities like number bonds.
The resource is supllied with comprehensive teachers notes giving you full instructions on how to use the resource.
Direct Educational Services Ltd Kalitza Thompson Tel : 01875 852421
Cost : £339.99
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Pinnacle Education
A variety of ideas and resources for maths eg Puzzle Cards, Target Cards, Focus Cards, Genius Posters.
Pinnacle Education - External Site
Problem Solving Idea: Making Twenty Four
This puzzle provides a nice warm-up activity for students from primary through to Secondary as a way of getting the brain in gear and as a way of encouraging working in pairs.
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The rules are quite simple:
• Use all four numbers only use to make the number twenty four using the operations of arithmetic : adding, subtracting, multiplying and/or dividing.
• Each number must be used once and only one!
• Be careful ! Do not muddle up 6’s and 9’s. The base of the digit is towards the centre.
Primary Mathematics Magazine
From the Maths Association - External Site
With the development of ideas relating to A Curriculum for Excellence, we are looking for opportunities to develop cross curricular links. Here, mathematical opportunities are developed through the study of other world religions.
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BEAM: Maths all week
This book will help you set up and run a successful and creative maths week or event in your school. It contains detailed advice on planning, notes on how to involve parents and the community, a range of mathematical and cross-curricular activities and suggestions for the evaluation of your maths week. This is a truly creative approach to maths learning, where excellence and enjoyment are guaranteed
Author : June Loewenstein
ISBN:978 1 8740 9997 0
Cost: £32.50
BEAM Website
BEAM:Mental Maths Flipbooks
The activities are quick and easy to organise and can be adapted to suit children of varying abilities. Use them as oral and mental starters, as part of your main teaching or for the spare five minutes before lunch or hometime. Ideal activities for a teaching assistant to use with groups of children and a helpful resource for an NQT.
Includes: On The Mat
In The Hall
Eyes Closed
On The Board
Author :Fran Mosley and Tom O'Brien
ISBN:201452
Cost: £57.50 for all five books.
BEAM Website
The Really Useful Maths Book
The Really Useful Maths Book by Tony Brown and Henry Leibling ( www.routlege.com)
This is the book for teachers who want children to enjoy the challenge of learning mathematics and who wish to experiment with their teaching, to create rather than react, and take risks rather than play it safe. This is an accessible and jargon-free practical guide to making math meaningful, challenging, and interesting. It provides useful activities and advice for teachers, students, parents, and others who support children's learning.
Part 1 is organized around the strands of the National Numeracy Strategy. The emphasis is on developing different approaches to practical activities with children, noticing what happens, and building the necessary teaching skills around what works for you.
Part 2 develops more complex teaching strategies including how to optimize interactive teaching.
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Practical ideas for delivering a creative curriculum through mathematics Ages 5-11 Belair Publications - Folens.
ISBN 978-1-84191-460-2
Cost:£16.99
Folens Website
My thanks to Marion Morris, Carradale Primary, for the recommendation.
Hands on Numeracy
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Creative display and activities Ages 5-7 Belair Publications - Folens.
ISBN 978-0-94788-297-6
Cost: £16.99
Folens Website
My thanks to Marion Morris, Carradale Primary, for the recommendation.
Numeracy on Display
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Stunning visual displays inspired by practical and creative mathematics for children Ages 7-11 Belair Publications - Folens.
ISBN 0-94788-291-X
Cost: £16.99
Folens Website
My thanks to Marion Morris, Carradale Primary, for the recommendation.
The Maths Collection
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Practical and creative activities in maths for children from seven to eleven Belair Publications - Folens.
ISBN 0-947882-68-5
Cost: £16.99
Folens Website
My thanks to Marion Morris, Carradale Primary, for the recommendation.
SCHUBI Abaco 1 x 1
An ingenious self-checking Multiplication table with numbered balls from 1 to 100.
Key Features
The Abaco is a hands-on counting device with a unique roller-ball action, making it fun and very easy to use - yet it looks high-tech! It is an enclosed unit, so there are no pieces to get lost. And it can be used to demonstrate, teach and calculate key numeracy concepts in a practical, straightforward way, on so many different levels throughout primary maths.The Abaco 1 x 1 can be used for hundreds, multiplication and division, and has all the number pattern potential of a hundred square.
£29.99 Each
First Class Schools Website
The Happy Puzzle Company
A great online Puzzle Shop - free delivery on all UK orders.Categories 3-8 years old and 8 - adult
Such as
Sum Swamp
Ref: LRSUW
Numeracy Skills
Wind your way through Sum Swamp by adding and subtracting the numbers you roll on the dice and moving forward the number of spaces in the answer. Journey over the Crocodile Short Cut and through the Endless Loop as you make your way to the finish line! A basic, fun maths game.
Improves Confidence & Concentration
Ages 5 to Adult | Players 2 to 4
Price: £13.99
Thanks to Caroline Boyle, Head Teacher of Taynuilt Primary, for the information.
Happy Puzzle Company Website
BEAM
BEAM is a specialist mathematics education publisher, dedicated to promoting the teaching and learning of mathematics as interesting, challenging and enjoyable.Their materials cover teaching and learning needs from the age of 3 to 14. They deal with many of the classroom concerns voiced by teachers of mathematics, and offer practical support and help. They include more than 80 publications, as well as a comprehensive range of mathematical games and equipment.
BEAM's services include consultancy for companies, institutions and government, and a programme of courses and in-service training for schools, early years settings and local education authorities.
BEAM is an acknowledged expert in the field of mathematics education.
BEAM is part of Nelson Thornes, the large educational publishing group.
BEAM Website
BEAM: Storybook Maths Set
This set of three engaging books offers countless activities, using familiar stories as a basis for children’s exploration and learning in all areas of the curriculum, but especially maths. Each 96-page book covers seven storybooks: four traditional tales and three modern stories. The set features books for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2.QUOTES:
Linking maths with stories is an excellent idea.
Great to have ready-made ideas based upon stories.
Enrich children’s learning by linking mathematics to other curriculum areas
Ensure that children see maths as meaningful and useful
Start children on their school career with the attitude that maths is enjoyable
Author :Elaine Bennett and Jenny Critcher
ISBN:6420182
Cost: £99.00 for all three books.
BEAM Website
Active Learning in Maths - Numicon
Numicon is a multi-sensory maths teaching programme using Numicon maths shapes in a series of practical teaching activities. The Maths Shapes give learners insight into number values and relationships in a way not provided by written numerals. Learners develop their own mental imagery as they combine and compare the shapes to do arithmetic in a series of practical activities.
Numicon’s visual, auditory and kinaesthetic approach appeals to different learning styles. Pupils learn through both seeing and feeling how Numicon patterns connect with each other. By physically manipulating Numicon to build constructions, make arrangements and patterns and play games using the feely bag, pupils will experience with both their hands and their eyes how numbers fit together. The powerful images can also open doors for children struggling with number, no matter how old they are.
The teaching programme that accompanies the Numicon maths shapes has been developed by the authors as they work with children and teachers on a daily basis. The teaching activities are described on a series of illustrated cards.
In the early stages children play with the Numicon shapes, through the teaching activities they begin to associate a number name with each shape and then start to use the shapes in practical arithmetic activities. Thus children develop their own mental imagery of number, relationships between numbers and arithmetic operations. As children’s understanding develops they cease to rely on the concrete Numicon imagery using their own mental imagery of number and relationships between numbers and arithmetic operations.
Numicon illustrates addition and subtraction, place value, doubling and halving, estimation, division, multiplication and much more. Pupils actively enjoy using Numicon, either independently or in groups. The colourful and durable pieces are ideal for whole class mental maths activities. As teachers begin to work with the materials they quickly find further ways of using Numicon maths shapes; percentages, fractions and decimals are all easily illustrated using the shapes.
Steps are being taken to link the Curriculum for Excellence outcomes and experiences to the Numicon resources
Numicon Website
Further information available from Emma Haydon
emma@numicon.com
T +44 (0) 1273 515591
F +44 (0) 1273 515592
Active Maths Labels
An idea from the Scottish Learning Festival!!
With the increase in active learning teachers are often worried by the decline in 'evidence' in pupils' jotters. These labels, along with photographic evidence, help to reassure parents that the child has been learning. They are also a useful reminder to staff of many active ways that maths and numeracy can be undertaken.
The labels are designed for Avery L7160 labels.
Click here to download a page of examples.
A cd of a page of each of the labels exemplified and a 'blank' example are available from Elaine Magor ( elaine.magor@ea.argyll-bute.sch.uk)
BEAM: MiniMaths 1 and 2
MiniMaths 1 and 2 take a fresh approach to teaching mathematics in the early years. They are full of inventive games and activities based on everyday objects and will help young children gain confidence and grasp the fundamentals of mathematical ideas.
The books are colourful and fully illustrated, and the information is clearly organised. You get a description of the activity, a list of what you need, things to ask, words to use, challenges, assessment hints, and the maths learning. Every section also includes a matrix linking the activities to the stepping stones and Early Learning Goals.
Author :Kim Connor
ISBN:2201445
Cost: Price : £38.50
Each book is priced £24.50, so buying both together saves you over £14.
BEAM Website
BEAM Play Away Maths
These family-friendly books of homework games provide an opportunity for children and parents to talk about maths together and address key learning objectives in the refreshed Framework. We have included clear, easy-to-read instructions and ‘cribs’ of facts where appropriate. A welcome alternative to practice sheets.
20 games in each book, with core and extension level
No special equipment needed, not even dice - just use bits and pieces around the house
Give children practice in number, shape and measuring skills
Addresses key learning objectives in the refreshed Framework
No mention of year groups on the books, so high and low attainers can work with different books
Play in the after-school club, breakfast club, during wet dinner times or in class
16-page teachers’ notes on using the games and working with parents
Includes:
72 activities in each book, with mathematical vocabulary, questions and challenges
Planning and assessment grids linked to the Early Learning Goals
Author :Fran Mosley
ISBN:64164495
Cost: Price : £35.00 for ten books and teacher's notes
BEAM Website
BEAM:Maths Out Loud
We are being encouraged to include speaking and listening in various curriculum areas - but how do you include them in maths? Now BEAM has the answer: books of 28 lessons (24 at Key Stage 1) which use a range of classroom techniques to promote speaking and listening skills. The books cover the maths curriculum from the number system through to handling data. Essential for quality maths talk in the classroom.Each lesson:
Identifies which speaking and listening skill and which mathematical objective is being addressed.
Promotes development of specified personal skills
Suggests ways to support learners and to extend the activity for high achievers
Provides the necessary resource sheets, including extras for high and low attainers where appropriate
ISBN:201473
Cost: Price : £185.00 for six books
BEAM Website
BEAM:Maths a la carte
Puzzles and Problems from ParisStretch children’s mathematical thinking and problem solving, French style. Three wonderful books to entertain and amuse both you and your class. Written in a child-friendly style by a Parisian professor of maths, they offer problems, puzzles, hints and answers and a wry humour. There are also some shorter problems in French, alongside the English, to enable you to use it as a maths and modern foreign language resource.
Broaden the boundaries of your classroom as you eat croissants or visit the Eiffel Tower as the context for some motivational maths problem solving. You could even try some of the problems in French to challenge the budding linguists.
Includes:
99 quirky word problems and logic puzzles
CD-ROM for you to project the problems onto the whiteboard or print them out
Author:Marie Berrondo-Agrell
ISBN:978 1 9031 4297 4
Cost: Price : £14.00
BEAM Website
BEAM:We Can Do It!
Learning how to use and apply maths to solve problems is a critical aspect of children’s mathematical development during their time at primary school. Our We Can Do It! series offers stimulating problem-solving challenges that inspire genuine mathematical thinking. Six books, one for each year, allow a whole-school approach to using and applying maths. Each book includes:
36 challenges, one for each week of the school year, matched to the strands of the renewed Framework to fit seamlessly with your planning
Assessment for Learning pointers to easily identify learning needs
Ideas for extension and support to provide for the individual needs of each child
Resource sheets and answers
CD-ROM containing all the resource sheets for you to print out
Author :Peter Clarke
ISBN:6419390
Cost: £35:00 per book
BEAM Website
BEAM:Using Maths
Two sets of six value-for-money books that put mathematical activity in context. Each book demonstrates how maths might be used in real life, engaging the reader in working out timings, reading maps, sorting out logistical problems and many other activities. Good for the extended school day and for cross-curricular work, for use in a maths club or for children to take home. Will motivate the most reluctant mathematician.Green Set includes:
Six themes: Be a Zookeeper, Dinosaur Dig, Firefighters to the Rescue, Journey to the Moon, Treasure in the Jungle, Ocean Giants.
Photographs, real-world information and puzzles
Red set includes:
Six themes: Emergency Department, Survival Skills, Mission into Space, Build a Skyscraper, Design a Rollercoaster and Climb Everest.
Photographs, real-world information and puzzles
Published by Tick Tock
ISBN:6419015
Cost: Price : £30.00 a set
BEAM Website
BEAM:The Brain Buster Maths Box
It has everything to get your class involved in a good maths investigation once a week throughout the year: A4 problem cards for pairs to share (or you can print out multiple copies from the CD-ROM); enough equipment for a class of children working in pairs on the same problem at the same time; a teachers’ book and a CD-ROM of the problems, activity sheets and notes - all in a neat storage box. There are problems about finding all the possibilities, diagram problems and visual puzzles, problems involving finding rules and describing patterns, and logic puzzles. Each problem has an extension for the able mathematician. There is help in encouraging children to explain their methods and in analysing their strategies.
The equipment: plain counters, numbered counters, digit cards, wooden sticks, square tiles and tetronimo shapes.
Includes:
30 problems presented on laminated A4 full-colour cards (15 for each year) and also on a CD-ROM
Extension activity sheets and recording sheets
Five or six different types of equipment, sufficient for all 30 problems, including an analysis of the problems and skills children need to solve them
48-page teachers’ book
Written and devised by NRICH
ISBN:978 1 9031 4254 7
Cost: Price : £150.00 (+ VAT)
BEAM Website
BEAM: Word Problems Interactive
Get children working together to solve our word problems, using the interactive whiteboard. Choose a calculation type and level of difficult, then the topic for your word problem. Do you fancy problems about flamingos or hippos? Boy bands or sticker collections? Then work with the children to make sense of the information to solve the problem - you can move sentences around, order them, hide them. And you can even solve the same problem again and again with different sets of numbers.
Develop children’s understanding of word problems and build up their repertoire of experience in solving them
Select mathematical operations and difficulty levels to suit the children’s needs
Follow a similar structure to the big books, with problems presented according to the type of calculation
Use on the interactive whiteboard, on a stand alone computer or networked in the IT suite
Author: Mike Askew
ISBN:6416880
Cost: Price : £85.00 (+ VAT)
BEAM Website
BEAM: Mission Maths
This compelling board game and accompanying interactive CD-ROM is an excellent way to hone mathematical proficiency and competency. Children complete their chosen ‘mission’ by answering questions on ‘real-life’ number problems, number calculations, shape and space, and measures. Play as individuals, pairs, groups or the whole class in teams. This is challenging material that will raise expectations while giving enjoyment.
Includes:
The Mission Maths board game includes:
6 game boards
1 base board
4 packs of 50 question cards
1 spinner
160 counters in 4 colours
1 rulebook Mission Maths Interactive features:
Hundreds of new maths questions on number, problem solving, measures and shape and space
Two levels of difficulty
What to do:
Use on a whiteboard with the whole class in teams and choose your maths topic and level
Set up the computer suite with pairs, playing for the highest class score
Pairs can play against each other to advance their maths knowledge and skills
Author: Billie Old and Tom O'Brien
ISBN:6417219
Cost: Price : £90.00 (+ VAT)
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