WE HOPE TO OFFER THE MATHEMATICAL THINKING COURSE STARTING ON 1 AUGUST 2021.
Teaching in under resourced communities presents many challenges. AIMSSEC’s mission is to empower teachers, teacher trainers and subject advisors to combat poverty by bringing new skills, new hopes and new horizons to African schools and raising standards of mathematics. Courses are taught […]
Guides for self-help PD workshops and resources for activity based learning to support teachers in developing more effective and more up-to-date ways of teaching and a deeper understanding of mathematics and pedagogy.
You don’t need an expert leader or any advance preparation. Just use an AIMSSEC workshop guide.
These guides enable groups of teachers to […]
Games and puzzles are used to provide motivation for drill and practice, to review earlier work, and for assessment. Learners develop their understanding and creative skills by inventing their own puzzles and variations of the games.
The Checkit Game is enjoyed by all ages with variations including simple operations with whole numbers, fractions, […]
(1) A small boat leaves a harbour H and travels due East (bearing 090 degrees) for 40 km to a marker buoy B and then sails directly towards a lighthouse L which is 24 km from B. It then returns to the harbour H, that is a distance of 57 km on […]
Click here to register for the 2022 GLOBAL MATHS AND SCIENCE LESSON ON TUESDAY 11 OCTOBER. See below for links to lesson resources in English and Spanish.
Sheep Talk The first sheep talk word is A. To find the next term in the word sequence, each A is replaced by B […]
This is a classic Chinese Tangram. Each of the people illustrated, and thirteen convex polygons, can be made with the 7 pieces and there are hundreds of other puzzles based on this tangram.
Can you find a way to fold a sheet of paper so that you can cut out the tangram pieces […]
Arrange the 7 tangram pieces to make the shape in the grey picture.
What do you notice about the pattern? Draw the pattern and make a list of what you see in it.
Describe the shapes of the tangram pieces.
What is the same and what is different about the shapes of […]
Six bags of sweets each contain green, white, yellow, orange and red sweets with equal numbers of each colour (5 flavours).
You pick sweets from the bag without looking. If you pick 2 sweets what different combinations of colours can you get?
Twenty-one gas cylinders are to be loaded onto three lorries.
Seven cylinders are full, seven are half-full and seven are empty.
A full cylinder weighs 50kg and an empty cylinder weighs 20kg.
How should they be loaded onto the lorries so that each lorry is carrying the same weight?
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Suppose you have two 1s, two 2s and two 3s.
Arrange these six digits in a list so that:
between the two 1s there is one digit giving 1?1,
between the two 2s there are two digits giving 2??2,
between the two 3s there are three digits giving 3???3.
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