• Polygons & Stars

    Polygons & Stars(free)

    'Create beautiful polygons and stars using online microworld and discover for yourself rules for exterior angles.’ Polygons and stars are visually appealing because of their symmetry. But what is it that lies at the heart of these images? They have a regular mathematical structure, but can you discover it? In this investigation...
  • Transforming Functions - The Stretch

    Transforming Functions - The Stretch(free)

    'Explore a transformation to help Mr Greedy slim down his tummy' Mr Greedy liked to eat! In fact Mr Greedy loved to eat, and the more he ate the fatter he became.Source: Mr Greedy by Roger Hargreaves However, as you can see Mr Clever has found a way to slim Mr Greedy down which I thinks suits him a lot better. Can you work out...
  • Gapminder

    Gapminder(free)

    'Dynamic scattergraphs, oodles of real data and more..' We are really excited about Gapminder. It is great to have real, relevant data about the world so easily available. Better than that, it offers a brilliant, dynamic, visual tool to help interpret the data. All this is backed up with some wonderful presentations from their frontman...
  • World Village

    World Village(free)

    'If the world was a village of 100 people....' This page is about a joint project done with the mathematics and geography departments and involving primary and secondary students at the International School of Toulouse. It was inspired by two key things. Firstly, an invitation from the people at the Gapminder foundation to look...
  • Double Spinners

    Double Spinners(free)

    What is random? How can we be sure that when we spin a spinner we do it randomly? How can we predict events that are random? You should consider and answer these questions and many more during this activity. Here you are encouraged to create and program your own virtual spinner that should behave randomly. You will test it out and share results...
  • Straight Line Graphs

    Straight Line Graphs(free)

    In this activity you will discover the properties of straight lines. There is a quick game to help you discover how to plot horizontal and vertical lines before you investigate the properties of diagonal lines. Once you are confident with this you should try the bowling games. Strike!! Only when you have the correct equations entered will...

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Mr Men Mathematics

Posted on 15 May 2013 by Jim Noble

We can use Mr Men too! So, while the Mr Men are enjoying a revival in UK teaching I thought I would jump on the bandwagon with some ideas for using the Mr Men in some Mathematics lessons. I blogged... more»


Mr Men teaching in Toulouse

Posted on 13 May 2013 by Jim Noble

We are Mr Men teachers and proud! For any of you who are UK based, you will doubtless have followed the now infamous 'Mr Men Speech' by Michael Gove last week. For those of you who are not, follow the... more»


The homework debate!

Posted on 13 November 2012 by Jim Noble

Homework - Yuck or Yay The following blog post is a quick response the question above that has been posed by the #globalmath group on twitter who are having a debate on this topic this evening based on some responses... more»


Using Games in Mathematics

Posted on 24 October 2012 by Richard Wade

Expanding Double Brackets Generally students enjoy playing games (who doesn't). Whilst we can find many attractive and fun games online I'm often disappointed with the quality of the questions. If it's fun, but the students don't really learn much mathematics what's... more»







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