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I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your website. It is such a great resource and a great help to a not-very-maths confident subject leader. I keep discovering amazing and super helpful gems and wanted to say thank you! Maths Subject Leader, North London I used Broadbent Maths at my previous school. I now have a headship and subscribed to your site (of course!) Headteacher, Northumberland
How to close learning gaps in primary maths after Covid
I was sent this query from a teacher a few days ago: I am sure you have been asked this many times, but we were just wondering if you have any plans to release documents to assist with the return to school in September? We are still unsure as to whether we should continue with the plans and plug gaps where needed, start where we left off in March, or push certain areas (such as number) first before moving on. Any advice or guidance from yourselves would be really appreciated.
Exploring fractions on a grid
The topic of fractions can be one of the most challenging to teach and learn in primary schools with many hidden misconceptions ready to take hold as children dig deeper into the idea of rational numbers. It is a topic that children need to have time to explore and think about, using a variety of representations to help make sense of it. Here is a simple starting point that can be used in Y4-6 as an activity for exploring fractions as quotients, improper fractions, mixed numbers and equivalence.
Using love (and hate) to calculate with negative numbers
Adding and subtracting negative numbers is easy enough to put into a context, but it can be tricky to find a good way of representing the multiplication of negative numbers so that it makes sense. A teacher asked me about it recently and we talked about a nice connection to Valentines Day.
Pine cones, Fibonacci numbers and Christmas
The Fibonacci sequence is an amazing mathematical pattern found in nature and there is evidence of the sequence in this layer of a pine cone. One layer of this pine cone shows 21 white marks where the seeds had been....and yes, the layer above this had 13 seeds.
