AREA 4: FREE WORKSHEETS & EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

MATHS : KEY STAGE 2 : INDEX

http://nrich.maths.org.uk/prime/library.htm - Archive of material on the NRICH Maths Prime Site, particularly the "Penta Problems" - Cambridge University, England, UK - resource notified by Mrs. Jennifer Piggott, jsp38@cam.ac.uk

PRACTICAL MATHS ACTIVITIES

http://nrich.maths.org.uk/prime/index.html - new puzzles, investigations, games and practical maths activities - NRICH Maths Prime Site - Cambridge University, England, UK - resource notified by Mrs. Jennifer Piggott, jsp38@cam.ac.uk

TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT FRACTIONS

An Introduction to Fractions - a "Bart & Miss Walker" story, allowing children to follow the logic of what fractions represent, and how to simplify them.

Addition of Fractions - a "Bart & Miss Walker" story, following on from the previous one, using an apple and some elastic bands to simplify some of the more complex aspects of adding fractions together.

Fractions Worksheets - some simple worksheets where kids can apply what they have learned from the first and second stories.

Fractions and Percentages - the third "Bart & Miss Walker" story, explaining step by step how to express percentages as fractions, with a complete set of free worksheets to allow practice of percentage-to-fraction conversions from 1% to 100%.

RANDOM MATHS PROBLEMS

Fairbanks Country Day Preschool through HighSchool, San Diego, California, provides a free maths resource on the web called Course Server. Our thanks to Randall Rose who wrote to us: If a student or teacher goes to the Course Server web site and places tick marks next to the problem types he or she wants, the Course Server program will then display a web page containing maths problems of each of these types, along with a separate web page containing the solutions to these problems. We have a very large variety of maths problems: there are several thousand problem types to choose from, and whenever a particular problem type is selected, Course Server will randomly change the numbers and circumstances used in the problem so that the solution will be different each time.

PRIMARY SCHOOL MATHS

9th May 2005: Our thanks to Kaiya Williams who has sent in details of this amazing resource ..... Maths Practice Books and Lesson Plans - "covers the whole years work for years 1 to 6 - scroll down the whole page" ..... Note their disclaimer: "The material is made available through the CIMT for downloading and dissemination for NON-PROFIT MAKING PURPOSES ONLY."

Copymasters, practice books and lesson plans (175 lessons for *each* year from Year 1 to Year 6) - beautifully-constructed worksheets and nearly all the data accessible without "passwords" [their site says "passwords are not normally available to individuals who are not part of an educational institution"].

Homeschooling parents should be able to make use of a *huge* percentage of this resource however - it is quite the most comprehensive and practical guide to learning Maths we have ever seen on the Internet. This free resource has been created through a collaboration between the Peto Institute in Budapest, Hungary, and the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching at Exeter University, England.