DfEE - National Curriculum - Primary Numeracy section
Mathematics
DfEE - National Curriculum - Primary Numeracy section
This lively interactive website for practising and testing multiplication tables. It's based on the BBC Schools Television series "Megamaths", using the same castle setting and a selection of characters from the programme to introduce a variety of activities and games. Most suitable for 7-9 year olds, but has something to offer older age groups.
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(Roughly in alphabetical order)
This is a collection of fun tools to encourage young children to learn some basic skills.
One of the best educational sites around. Games, puzzles and quizzes for ages 3 to 13+.
An entertaining multimedia introduction to algebra created by an Oxford professor.
A beautifully presented site with maths based puzzles to solve.
Regularly-updated problem-solving activities, imaginatively presented, at each of three levels 8-9 yrs, 10-11yrs and 12yrs+. Solutions are given the following week.
Displays the current month by date and weekday, with a search facility to find any other month, future or past, from 1/001 to 12/9999.
The site is aimed at 9- to 12-year-olds and its quirky American style should not be off-putting.
Covers data collection, sampling, representation and probability through newspaper articles, each of which features a discussion and link to associated topics.
The calculator works out the days, minutes and seconds between any two dates.
Play in Dynamo's Den where children aged 5-9 can find quizzes, games, stories etc.
Eric’s
Treasure Trove of Mathematics
This site is an on-line mathematical encyclopaedia, containing an A-Z of everything you would ever want to know about maths. You need to know what you are looking for and the site does assume you have some prior mathematical knowledge.
KS 2 teachers may wish to pass on these simple multiplication tips to pupils to help develop their mental arithmetic skills. Alternatively, it could form a basis for Numeracy Hour activities.
The many activities cover a variety of curriculum areas including maths and English, presented in a fun and challenging way.
This site covers just about everything on fractals in a comprehensive and very readable way. .
Pattern-block activities.
Glossary
of Mathematical Mistakes
This is an excellent site for understanding more about how maths is used in everyday life.
Helping
Your Child Learn Maths
This site can be used as the basis of a maths lesson in ratio, proportion and scale.
Practise basic maths. Useful for the Numeracy Hour. American.
This site lists imperial-to-metric conversions for length, area, volume, mass and temperature, and provides functionality for conversions.
Join Fred and all the cast in a weekly maths problem solving challenge. Strategies and vocabulary help pages. Submit ansers and problems. A fun maths site for ages 8 to 11.
Little
Animals Activity Centre
Created by a maths teacher, from a UK comprehensive school, MathsNet is an impressive network of pages enthusing about numbers and how to manipulate them. The author of the site clearly has a passion for numbers, as shown with the many extension topics covered. Highlights include information on graphing calculators, links to relevant shareware packages, introductions to the world of fractals, and many other topics far too interesting to ever feature on a real syllabus! Parents (and any teachers out there) might also read some of the articles, which discuss various issues to do with maths and how it is best taught.
Source: Internet@ccess
There is much public domain mathematics software and teaching materials on the internet, and archives like this help you get hold of it.
MathMagic is run from America, but teachers from all over the world contribute. A good site for getting resources.
Maths Pages - Primary
This illustrates the Mayan mathematical and counting system of dots, bars, etc.
Math
Forum: Ask Dr. Math - Elementary School Level
This is a Web project that aims to provide strong motivation for pupils to use computer technology while improving their problem-solving strategies and communication skills.
Five maths games with a difference allow children to follow directions, construct their own boards and even formulate their own rules to an unknown game.
Busy website packed with games, puzzles and free software to help teach maths and numeracy skills.
A good, simple introduction to how the metric system works.
Card tricks and puzzles..
This is a useful booklist for Nursery and Primary teachers enabling mathematical concepts to be introduced or extended through stories.
A useful site that children can use to practice basic division facts and multiplication tables from 1-9.
This well presented and extensive site offers a wealth of fun maths and science activities, plus some aviation history movies and trivia.
This site is about Pi. It covers what it is, ratio, where it is on the number line, how it is used, a means of calculating it. A simple and focused site for mathematical basics.
Share playground activities around the world.
One of the best practical classroom activity sites for primary level teachers. The server will generate a large variety of word puzzles, cryptograms and number puzzles based on your input.
Part of a much larger site of teaching resources, most of which are not free.
Quick
and Easy Maths Games for Early Years
Stories with a mathematical slant. A good resource for primary maths teachers.
Get sessions underway speedily and have children actively trying to be the first to get down to work.
A site that enables straightforward times tables practice.
Puzzles and games galore to please and tease your mind at this site.
The
Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section
An excellent resource for maths at Key Stage 2. .
The
Children's House of Cool-Math
Caters for the more able child between 9 and 12.
Telegraph
Premier League 98 -99
Online Fantasy Football League.
Types
of Symmetry in the Plane
Symmetry, translation, rotation, reflection as well as activities and ideas for exploring them.
The
Premier League and Football League All Time Table
This site assembles football statistics for all league clubs in the UK from origin to 1997.
Mathematical learning support for very able children of all ages.
A copyright-free site at which teachers provide their own tried and tested lessons on a wide range of maths topics.
Tessellation:
Mathematical, Historical and Geographical Connections
Pictures, photographs, historical and geographical background to tessellation, bringing the whole topic to life.
The manufacturer has now created a site which has some excellent resources to support the use of the Roamer in the classroom.
Using and applying' activities for KS1 classroom.
Ginn offer their Maths Megastore as a source of mathematical projects and investigations.
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