AREA 4: FREE WORKSHEETS & EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

MATHS : INDEX

There are five main areas in this section [UK key stages]. These are given with approximate age guides as they're different from the USA K12 stages.

KEY STAGE 1 *** ages 4-7

KEY STAGE 2 *** ages 7-11

KEY STAGE 3 *** ages 11-14

GCSE *** ages 14-16

ADVANCED *** ages 16-18

Please note that complete sets of free-to-print worksheets for Times Tables Multiplication and Times Tables Division are located in Key Stage 1 but apply also to Key Stage 2.

There is a page for Higher Education Courses in Mathematics
[for all educational institutions with UCAS codes, and several others]
leading from the Advanced Maths Index
(our thanks to Cambridge University for providing this),
and Higher levels of Maths are linked from the main index for
Free Worksheets and Educational Resources.

We would welcome notification from any schools and universities worldwide
of other free educational resources specifically geared to the K12 age range
[ e-mail wks2005 (at) happychild.org.uk].

1. The NRICH Online Maths Club http://nrich.maths.org.uk provides free maths resources for children aged 5-19 with the Prime site - http://www.nrich.maths.org/prime - catering for roughly 5-11 year olds. NRICH publishes a magazine nine times a year with sections for each key stage. There is a large amount of material in the archive.

There are hundreds of problems (all labelled by key stage) in the NRICH Archive and to search for material by topic use the Search Tree at http://www.nrich.maths.org./topic_tree/index.html .

resource notified by Mrs. Jennifer Piggott, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, (Cambridge, UK). E-mail: jsp38@cam.ac.uk

2. The 'Plus Maths' site http://plus.maths.org/index.html is a mathematics magazine offering articles, news, career profiles, student interviews and puzzles to interested secondary school pupils and their teachers. Plus started life under the name of PASS Maths (Public Awareness and Schools Support for Maths) in 1997 and was created to increase public awareness of the importance of mathematics in everyday life. It aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics, in particular to excite greater interest among GCSE and A level students, and encourage them to further study. It also strives to provide resources for teachers to help them inspire an interest in mathematics. The topics are usually off-syllabus, but with mathematical content that is accessible to A level and possibly to some advanced GCSE students. E-mail: plus@maths.cam.ac.uk.

Specific related URLs as follows:
http://plus.maths.org.uk/news.html News
http://plus.maths.org.uk/feature.html Features
http://plus.maths.org.uk/staff.html Staff room
http://plus.maths.org.uk/etc.html Puzzles, mysteries, letters, editorial

resource notified by Helen Joyce, Plus Editor, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University (Cambridge, England, UK). E-mail: helen_joyce@blueyonder.co.uk.