Maths Resources

General maths resources

The Open University offers free online modules about different areas of mathematics and statistics. Just click here and choose from 42 modules covering areas like graphs, diagrams, arithmetic and many more.

Another useful Open University site might be mathshelp 
again with 7 modules about rounding, ratios, squares, and others.

Mathematicswww.mathsroom.co.uk - a general maths website.

The Scottish Mathematical Council - this site has lots of general activities.

www.mathsguru.co.uk - you have to register first and there seems to be a one off fee for the resources, but then updates are free after that.  It is an English website.  Level 5 is for S1 or bright primary 7 students.

www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/resources/codes brings out the spy in your students.  These resources have been developed alongside
Bletchley Park and the type of work done there with ciphers, binary codes, postcodes etc.

www.atm.org.uk - the Association of Mathematics Teachers website.  Lots of interactive maths problems.

www.mathsphere.co.uk - go to the link 'teachers and parents like us', and you will find other links to things like 'maths magic' - always well received by students.

The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics has resources for teachers, as does the Millennium Maths Project

Free teaching resources for maths teachers are available here.

www.thefutureschannel.com/hand-on_maths.php - many videos and activities covering e.g. measurement, geometry, statistics and more

www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/learningzone - offers edited clips from BBC programmes, just type in search words on the top, e.g. maths

www.counton.org - lots of fun and colourful maths games

www.mathsplayground.com/games.html

www.coolmath-games.com

www.rss.org.uk - the Royal Statistical Society has several educational resources available. They publish 'Teaching Statistics', a journal for statistics teachers.

www.epsrc.ac.uk - the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council

www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com - animated inateractive dictionary that explains over 600 commonly used mathematical terms iin simple languages

 

Secondary school resources

BP offer the enterprise trading game can be downloaded or ordered (free), students work together in teams, competing to trade oil - resources include films, news slides, a trade calculator spreadsheet, teacher notes and a trader pack. Suitable for S3-S6.

Mathcentre has revision booklets, leaflets and resource packs for you to download, aimed at helping students to make the transition from school-level to university-level maths.

Plus is a magazine about maths and its applications, for older students. One very good teaching resource is  'On thin ice - maths and climate change in the Arctic'. Three different toolkits are available for download: Navigation (geology and GPS), climate change (ice thickness, temperature) and statistics (predictions).

Coolmath and math playground have games and activities for secondary school kids.

 

Primary School Resources

The new maths curriculum for excellence is available online.

Maths games and activities for 7-11 year olds. 

Teaching Ideas has resources and ideas for teachers.

coolmath4kids and maths is fun have games and activities for primary school children.