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Click here for the Learning Through Play GTEN workshop video featuring the pedagogy of learning through play and games from the Let’s Play Mathematically book.
Click here for the PDF of the slides from this workshop. This PDF has the rules of 36 games from the Let’s Play Mathematically book […]
Download a pdf giving a large collection of learning activities using geoboards. The document is written for teachers to use if they run their own professional development workshops but also for teachers working alone..
The activities are all suitable for use in lessons. Word documents are provided so that you can easily use the […]
The diagram shows the first three patterns in a sequence in which each pattern has a hole in the middle.
Draw the 4th and 5th pattern in the sequence.
How many small squares are needed to build the tenth pattern in the sequence?
What abouth the hundredth pattern?
Investigate inscribed circles of right-angled triangles that have edges of integer length.
(1) Draw a 3-4-5 right-angled triangle on a grid. Using compasses construct the internal bisectors of the angles of the triangle and then draw the inscribed circle (we’ll call it an incircle). What do you notice? (2) […]
Using the digits 2, 0 2 and 6 each exactly once, write a mathematical expression for each digit between 1 and 100. You may use any mathematical symbol or operation of your choosing. Multi-digits are permitted, so you can use 20, 62, .02 etc.
These challenges have been issued by Maths Week England which will […]
Learners can be creative mathematicians; they can be people who have their own mathematical ideas.
What different questions about 2026 can you find to answer? Perhaps you can make up an easy question, a harder one and a very hard one. Compare your questions with other people. For example you might ask:
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Pelmathism is one of the many games in the AIMING HIGH book Let’s Play Mathematically, games designed for enjoyment while, at the same time, being school curriculum related and designed to help learners to develop the transferable skills needed in employment.
Click a link below to download a set of large […]
In this game players solve jigsaw puzzles and find the factors of quadratic expressions by fitting pieces together to make rectangles. To factorize the expression $ax^2 + bx +c$, where $a, b$ and c are positive, players must arrange into a rectangle: a blue $x^2$ pieces, b brown $x$ pieces and c green […]
DOWNLOAD the Maths Week England 2024 30-Minute Lesson details
Resources needed: pencil and paper, 5 by 5 grids, 2 sets of cards numbered 1 to 10, envelope or bag.
Warm-up (5 minutes)
For the 3 […]
This game is like Bingo but each player makes their own gamecard by drawing a grid and choosing 25 numbers between 0 and 100 to write on their gamecard not repeating any numbers. They cannot change the numbers once they are written on their gamecard.
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