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Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle? - Alex Gendler

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Videos about numbers and mathematics. Videos by Brady Haran since 2011. Our thanks to Jane Street. Thanks also to SLMath, the Simons Foundation, and our Patreon supporters.

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Step 3: Determine the Second Digit

Now consider the last digit of the number called out by the spectator and compare this to the last digit of the memorized squares.

If the last digit of the spectator's call is 0, then the last digit of your answer is also 0.

If the last digit of the spectator's call is 5, then the last digit of your answer is 5.

In all other cases, the last digit of the spectator's call will indicate two possible values for the last digit of the square root. For example, if the last digit of the spectator's call is 9, then the square root may end in either 3 or 7.

To determine whether the lower or higher of two possible values should be taken, multiply the first digit of your answer (as found in Step 2) by one greater than itself.

If this is greater than (i.e., ignoring the last two digits), then the last digit of your answer is the lower of the two possible values.

If this is less than (or equal to) the first part of the number called by the spectator, then the last digit of your answer is the higher value.

Example 1

Spectator calls 676

Last digit of spectator's call = 6

Therefore the two possible values of the second digit are 4 or 6

First digit of answer (from Step 2) is 2

Because 6 is equal to the first part of the spectator's call (6), then the second digit will be the higher of the two possible values

Therefore the second digit is 6 (not 4)

Therefore the square root of 676 is 26

Example 2

Spectator calls 5184

Last digit of spectator's call = 4

Therefore the two possible values of the second digit are 2 or 8

First digit of answer (from Step 2) is 7

Because 56 is greater than the first part of the spectator's call (51), then the second digit will be the lower of the two possible values

Therefore the second digit is 2 (not 8)

Therefore the square root of 5184 is 72

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Instant Mental Calculation of Square Roots

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Step 3: Determine the Second Digit Now consider the last digit of the number called out by the spectator and compare this to the last digit of the memorized squares. If the last digit of the spectator's call is 0, then the last digit of your answer is also 0.

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The Story of Mathematics - A History of Mathematical Thought from Ancient Times to the Modern Day

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The Story of Mathematics - A History of Mathematical Thought from Ancient Times to the Modern Day

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0 is the additive identity. 1 is the multiplicative identity. 2 is the only even prime. 3 is the number of spatial dimensions we live in. 4 is the smallest number of colors sufficient to color all planar maps. 5 is the number of Platonic solids. 6 is the smallest perfect number.

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Resourceaholic - free resources and ideas for teaching secondary school maths

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In 2016, I attended #MathsConf7 in Leeds. The outcome? A to-do list longer than my arm as I intended to create a textbook of exercises of increasingly difficult questions to improve upon the standard…

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MrCarterMaths enables you to generate high-quality questions and differentiated resources at the click of a button. When used alongside our exam skills sections and custom question builder, it provides a wide range of paperless resources at a cost-effective price.

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Free online GCSE video tutorials, notes, exam style questions, worksheets, answers for all topics in Foundation and Higher GCSE. The content is suitable for the Edexcel, OCR and AQA exam boards.

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GCSE Maths Takeaway

GCSE maths revision resources have been sorted by topic and include the new GCSE specification.

Choose items from the menu that you feel you need to work on. Do the questions, use the videos if needed and mark your work. Once you feel you are ready, take the quiz. Aim to get full marks on the quiz questions and make sure you explain each answer (this will mean you are more likely to remember - which is the point of revision!) Have fun!

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GCSE maths revision resources have been sorted by topic and include the new GCSE specification. Choose items from the menu that you feel you need to work on. Do the questions, use the videos if needed and mark your work. Once you feel you are ready, take the quiz.

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Use the "Vowel" and "Consonant" buttons to pick your letters, or "Conundrum" to practice a conundrum, then you have up to 30 seconds to find your words (use the working area if you like), then you can use the "Check word" box to check your best words, and "Show answers" to see the top answers.

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Use the "Vowel" and "Consonant" buttons to pick your letters, or "Conundrum" to practice a conundrum, then you have up to 30 seconds to find your words (use the working area if you like), then you can use the "Check word" box to check your best words, and "Show answers" to see the top answers.

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Scale of Universe is an interactive experience to inspire people to learn about the vast ranges of the visible and invisible world.

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Unfortunately, my father Don Steward passed away from Covid-19 on 3rd May 2020.

Throughout his working life he was passionate about improving the teaching of mathematics and has requested that all of his work remains freely available.

As per his wishes, I have uploaded all of his work to this Blog in the pages section which contains links to google drive where slides and presentations can be downloaded for free.

Don has also requested that those who use his work make a discretionary donation to charities supporting education in Africa.

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Many thanks for all of the kind messages we have received which are of great comfort to myself and the family.

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Highly rated by teachers and students, these free maths resources have carefully thought out questions and detailed solutions. They are designed to make it easy for students to take the first steps in each topic, then strengthen and extend their knowledge and skills. The resources include revision questions for KS2 SATs and GCSE.

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This padlet inspired me to create my own!

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Scale of the Universe: Discover the vast ranges of our visible and invisible world.

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Scale of Universe is an interactive experience to inspire people to learn about the vast ranges of the visible and invisible world.

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Access Maths is a website created to share and store maths resources and maths games for maths teachers. It has been born from a passion for well structured and enjoyable maths resources with an aim to inspire both teachers and students in the field of mathematics.

These maths resources are aimed to help teachers engage students within the maths curriculum, by presenting the work in a way which will excite the pupils and most importantly help them learn!

All the Access Maths resources and maths games here are tried, tested and created by myself. I hope they are as useful to you as they are, and have been for me.

The website itself is very much in its infancy stage so there are going to be plenty of updates and new maths resources over the coming new year. So keep checking for regular updates! There are also free maths games under construction constantly that you can find in the games page!

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SSDD stands for Same Surface, Different Depth. They are a special set of problems that may look the same at first glance, but require different mathematical ideas to solve them.

SSDD Problems have become one of my key strategies to use with my students to help them become better problem solvers.

You can search for different topics using the tags on the right-hand side (or below if using a mobile device), and you can find out more about SSDD Problems on this page.

My books

I have written two books about my use of these types of activities.

My 2020 book, Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain: Sequences and behaviour to enable mathematical thinking in the classroom, goes into detail about making the most of these activities in the classroom. You can order the book from Amazon, John Catt, or wherever you get your books.

My 2023 book, Tips for Teachers: 400+ ideas to improve your teaching, details my most recent thoughts on using SSDD Problems effectively. You can order the book from Amazon, John Catt, or wherever you get your books.

My online courses

I have an online course store which offers low-cost, high-quality CPD on-demand. Each course contains short videos, resources, research, activities and questions to reflect upon. The courses most suited to the questions on the SSDD Problems website are:

Supporting this website

I do not make any money from this website, so if you did want to support its future development - and hopefully learn more about the pedagogy underpinning these ideas - then I would be so grateful if you would consider:

Thanks so much for taking the time to read this - now go and enjoy the site!
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Same Surface, Different Deep Structure maths problems from Craig Barton @mrbartonmaths

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This website is my attempt to assemble a collection of high-quality, sequences of questions and examples using key principles from Variation Theory. By holding key features between questions and examples constant, together with the mathematical behaviour that I call Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain and the supporting role of the teacher, I believe we can help students better understand key mathematical ideas.

You can find out more about the site and the different types of sequences available by visiting the Introduction.

You can access all the sequences of questions and examples from the Topics menu above.

My 2020 book, Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain: Sequences and behaviour to enable mathematical thinking in the classroom, goes into detail about making the most of these activities in the classroom. You can order the book from Amazon, John Catt, or wherever you get your books.

My 2023 book, Tips for Teachers: 400+ ideas to improve your teaching, details my most recent thoughts on using these sequences effectively. You can order the book from Amazon, John Catt, or wherever you get your books.

I have an online course store which offers low-cost, high-quality CPD on-demand. Each course contains short videos, resources, research, activities and questions to reflect upon. The courses most suited to the sequencers on the Variation Theory website are:

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Sequences and behaviour to enable mathematical thinking in the classroom - by Craig Barton @mrbartonmaths

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DrFrostMaths provides an online learning platform, teaching resources, videos and a bank of exam questions, all for free.

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Puzzle Library All the PDFs of puzzles and solutions are shared (for free), please consider donating if you find them useful!
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Solve fun, daily challenges in math, science, and engineering.

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Use logic to solve visual, interactive mathematical puzzles. Create your own puzzles to share with your friends or the SolveMe Community.

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Form Time Ideas - Tutor group activities

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Ideas and activities to keep your tutor group engaged during form time. A fresh set of activities is generated each time you visit.

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Enriching mathematics for all learners

A free-to-use collection of mathematics activities, lessons and problems designed to nurture curious, resourceful and confident learners of mathematics. Produced by The University of Cambridge.

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The Nrich Maths Project Cambridge,England. Mathematics resources for children,parents and teachers to enrich learning. Problems,children's solutions,interactivities,games,articles.

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Welcome to Goal Free Problems, a place to find and share goal free problems for use with pupils in class and revision

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Senior Mathematical Challenge

Date of competition: Thu 7 Nov 2019

UK entry deadline: 16:00 on Thu 31 Oct 2019

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Date of competition: Thu 6 Feb 2020

UK entry deadline: 9:00 on Wed 29 Jan 2020

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Date of competition: Thu 30 Apr 2020

UK entry deadline: 13:00 on Fri 27 Mar 2020

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Advancing the education of young people in mathematics

For over 20 years we have been inspiring a love of problem solving through our competitions and enrichment activities.

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Maths Careers provides a range of resources, information and signposting to help those working in mathematics.

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"As a teacher and a media production specialist at the school district level, I am very impressed with the Futures Channel documentaries. They provide a critical link, view of the real-world application of knowledge that I want my students to strive towards as they learn about technology, art, math, and science in school. I cannot afford to take field trips to show my students all these interesting people and projects in action. Futures Channel does this in an inviting and exciting way." -J.G

"With these videos, I can do more than tell students how math is used in the real world. I can show them what it really looks like in action. These upbeat, creative, and informative videos grab students' attention, plant a seed, and lay the groundwork for exciting and meaningful applications of mathematics in the classroom. After watching Futures Channel videos, students have a more well-defined purpose and genuine interest in the mathematics they are studying." -J. K

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Filtered research on mathematics education

Every two months we bring you an Espresso - a small but intense draught of filtered research on mathematics education, expressly designed with teachers in mind. Each Espresso considers one particular issue in mathematics education, and how the latest good-quality research can provide helpful guidance or further reading. Perfect with a biscuit; sip gently and combine with a drop of professional judgement for a benevolent stimulant effect.

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Each month we bring you an Espresso - a small but intense draught of filtered research on mathematics education, expressly designed with teachers in mind.

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Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle | Science | The Guardian

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Can you solve it? Alex has been setting a puzzle here every two weeks since 2015

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We also have a collection of Short Problems, linked to the curriculum, which you might want to use as lesson starters, homework tasks, or as part of internal assessment exercises.

If you want to focus on developing your students' problem solving skills and help them to think like mathematicians you may be interested in the two collections below.

These collections of activities are designed to develop students' capacity to work as mathematicians.

These resources have been chosen to help secondary students develop good mathematical habits.

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We also have a collection of Short Problems, linked to the curriculum, which you might want to use as lesson starters, homework tasks, or as part of internal assessment exercises. If you want to focus on developing your students' problem solving skills and help them to think like mathematicians you may be interested in the two collections below.

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Discover Mathigon, the Mathematical Playground. Learning mathematics has never been so interactive and fun!

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Interactive tools and activites to aid the teaching of mathematics. Hundreds of randomly generated questions and answers.

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The First Six Books of The Elements of Euclid With Coloured Diagrams and Symbols

A reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

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The First Six Books of The Elements of Euclid With Coloured Diagrams and Symbols A reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

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Being able to recall multiplication facts (times tables) is an important part of mathematics. Here I share with you an alternative way to practice the times tables rather than solely focusing on drill and practice type activities.

Times tables booklets are a great tool for students to use to test themselves and review various table facts. They can be made for each of the times tables, or any that your students are having difficulty with.

Step 1

Have enough strips of paper for each student. The strips should measure 60cm long and 5cm wide. Fold over a rectangle about 4cm wide at the left side of the strip.

Step 2

Continue to fold the strip of paper over on itself for the length of the strip. Cut off any left over paper.

Step 3

Choose the multiplier for the booklet, e.g. 6. Write: Tables Booklet x 6 on the front of the booklet.

Step 4

Turn back the front page of the booklet. On the left side write 1 x 6 and on the right side make a pattern of the answer (6 dots). Then write the number 6 in the top right hand corner.

Step 5

Open the strip of paper one more page. Then write 2 x 6 on the left side, make another pattern of 6 dots and then write the number 12 in the top right hand corner.

Step 6

Continue to open up the strip of paper and each time add one more multiple of 6, until the booklet is completed. You can then get your students to pair up and test each other on the various table facts.

I hope you and your students have fun making times tables booklets.

Graphic Credits: Graphics From the Pond

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Being able to recall multiplication facts (times tables) is an important part of mathematics. Here I share with you an alternative way to practice the times tables rather than solely focusing on drill and practice type activities. Times tables booklets are a great tool for students to use to test themselves and review various table facts.

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A magazine for the mathematically curious. Issue 11 now available: space-filling curves, cheating at cards and automated joke generation feature in our latest edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.

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Sharing in an app allows educators to pose problems and investigations for students by using an 8-character code or link. Students can share their thinking with their teachers and classmates. Share codes remain available for continued use for 18 months from the date they are last accessed.
Watch the video to learn how sharing works.

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Sharing in an app allows educators to pose problems and investigations for students by using an 8-character code or link. Students can share their thinking with their teachers and classmates. Share codes remain available for continued use for 18 months from the date they are last accessed.

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Maths in Action - The Training Partnership

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Do your students wonder what mathematicians do? This inspirational day of mathematics will take them to the cutting edge in fields from statistics, engineering and cyber security to pure mathematics. Five renowned speakers from universities, industries and the media reveal mathematics at its very best and your students will have a whole lot of fun ...

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Think Maths is a team of experienced mathematics speakers who visit schools to run workshops and give talks for a wide range of ages and abilities. Our sessions are interactive, engaging and cover mathematical content which will grab the attention of students and inspire them to get excited about maths.

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BOOKING FOR OUR VIRTUAL LIVE STREAM SHOW ON 9TH JULY HAS NOW CLOSED.

Maths Inspiration is a national programme of interactive maths lecture shows for teenagers. We give 14-17 year olds a chance to experience the UK's most inspiring maths speakers presenting mathematics live in the context of exciting, real-world applications. Our shows are exceptional value for money.

We usually hold our events in theatres. However, with the restrictions of Covid-19, we will be doing live 'shows' online until theatres re-open. We still hope to have some theatre-based events in the autumn of 2020.

Maths Inspiration began in 2004. Since then over 150,000 teenagers have attended our shows making us one of the largest and most successful maths enrichment programmes in the UK.
MATHS FEST. We also run a parallel set of events in the spring called Maths Fest. Maths Fest is an all day event, aimed at sixth formers and Year 11s who are already 'into' maths. The all-day format includes Maths Slam in which students get a chance to present lightning maths talks, a short session on exam-technique, and time during breaks to tackle puzzles, talk to university students, and visit exhibitor stands. Details of Maths Fest can be found at: www.Maths-Fest.com REGISTER WITH US HERE

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Maths Inspiration - Inspire your teenagers with our interactive maths show

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A simple but rich activity.

Find Me Grids

There is a template version available below under the slides to create your own - although it isn't hard to create the model yourself.

Or you can download a pdf version here.

Depending on age and ability, they could create their own - or explain understanding.

The document is visible on google slides, you can print any page you need - there are a couple that are slightly different just because it is hard to create fractions in google slides.

I will keep adding to the slide link below so keep this page bookmarked.

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A simple but rich activity. Find Me Grids There is a template version available below under the slides to create your own - although it isn't hard to create the model yourself. Or you can download a pdf version here. Depending on age and ability, they could create their own - or explain understanding.

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I wrote about my rationale for this project in 2017.

The idea is that a teacher delivers these sessions to their colleagues in a department meeting or CPD session at an appropriate time (ideally when they are about to teach that topic).

Each pack covers subject knowledge, teaching approaches, misconceptions and resources.

The collection is growing very slowly! Please bear with me - these take a really long time to pull together. Each pack should take between 30 and 60 minutes to run through with colleagues. Please download the documents so that the animations and links work. Refer to the notes section on each slide for sources and comments.

I am in the process of recording videos of each of my presentations with Craig Barton, supported by TES.

I am very grateful to maths teacher and consultant Nikki Martin for providing a set of 'Topics in Depth' packs for primary teachers - I've shared these below.

Topics in Depth Secondary Collection

In the Marvellous Maths 2 course I present Topics in Depth sessions on Coordinates, Pythagoras and Decimals.

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I wrote about my rationale for this project in 2017. The idea is that a teacher delivers these sessions to their colleagues in a department meeting or CPD session at an appropriate time (ideally when they are about to teach that topic). Each pack covers subject knowledge, teaching approaches, misconceptions and resources.

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A selection of resources to support students' learning of mathematics, and teachers' and schools' promotion of such. Note that the images included on this page are not the resource; they are illustrations of what the resource is. Click on the links provided, in the format you require, to take you to a download page in a new window.

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Promoting Mathematics

Favourite Number Election
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A conceit to promote mathematics across your school's community - to encourage shared mathematical talk amongst students, their families and staff - the 'Favourite Number Election' could possibly be used to mark (in part) days such as the NSPCC's Number Day (1 February in 2019: click here for more information), πday (14 March every year), Ada Lovelace Day (9 October 2018), etc.

The ballot paper is provided here to be printed A4 double-sided and folded to make an A5 booklet. The 20 'candidates' included on the paper are numbers that secondary school students should / may come across, to varying degrees of depth, or will otherwise be able to access, but the ballot paper can of course be customised by adding and/or removing numbers if/as wished to suit the school, age group, and purpose.

Suggested use:

Run a whole-school election campaign before students, staff and possibly families vote for their favourite number using the ballot paper.

Students volunteer to be advocates, campaigners for respective numbers, or numbers are assigned to classes, houses, etc.

Run a hustings, perhaps in school assemblies, where each advocate or group of advocates argue their case for their candidate.

Do some polling before the actual election, gather sample data and use such in mathematics / statistics classes.

Publicise the result, with reasons why the number won, across the school and possibly wider.

Random Acts of Maths (RAMs) are Mathematical problems, puzzles, teasers, provocations, jokes, quotes, etc., to be offered or given to students (outside of lessons), their families, school visitors, et al., for no other reason than to make people mathier. Whilst the areas of mathematics shared through the RAMs may not necessarily be found in a typical school mathematics curriculum, they are intended to complement - and can be accessed with little if any technical knowledge or skill beyond that developed in - such curricula.

Designed to promote the doing of mathematics, and, indeed, to promote the promotion of the doing of mathematics, each RAM aims to stoke the recipient's curiosity, to encourage the recipient to want to find out more by hinting at the more that there is beyond - or down deeper in - the mathematics of the RAM itself. RAMs can be carried out either spontaneously, or as part of a deliberate school strategy.

The RAMs are presented here in pdf, doc and png format as A6-sized 'notes': four on an A4 sheet to print double-sided and cut-to-size, with a message on the reverse encouraging the recipient to 'pass it on'. They are also presented individually on ppt slides for those teachers who are using them in a classroom setting or for use on school media presentations.

Teachers pocket a selection of RAMs to randomly hand out to children during mid-morning breaks or lunch times - perhaps on days such as World Maths Day (15 October in 2019), πday (14 March every year), the NSPCC's Number Day (1 February in 2019), National Numeracy Day (15 May 2019), Ada Lovelace Day (8 October 2019), or, indeed, any other day.

Place a stack of RAMs (printed on card) in a prominent position in your school's reception for visitors, maybe with an accompanying notice.

Enclose a RAM, occasionally, in correspondence with families.

Put a RAM a day on your school's website, and/or reception area media presentation.

On Open Evenings, or other whole school events, give one RAM to a student ambassador, prefect, etc., as a badge to wear and thus spike visitors' curiosities enough for them to ask the students about them.

Parent/carers may use such, customising if they wish with positive messages, doodles, etc., and secretly placing into the lunch boxes, or school bags of their children before they go to school.

A Christmas card full of mathematical problems and curios, the xMaths card is designed for schools to distribute to students and their families, to promote the doing of mathematics as and end in itself, encouraging shared maths-play over the holidays.

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Extra Stuff to Do at Home Corridor Cards
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A set of over 50 brochure style leaflets (more added regularly), full of mathematical problems, that are designed to promote the doing of mathematics for the sake of it, without that is any externally derived compulsion to do so, with no time-limits or deadlines or expectation of completion. The leaflets are intended to be housed in school corridors for students to pick up a problem as and when and if they wish. It is important to note that they are not a replacement for homework, but rather a compliment to it. They are about promoting an unashamedly purist approach to mathematics with students, that we do mathematics in other words because we are curious about finding things out, because we find some things intriguing and want to find out more, because of the sense of adventure that comes with solving problems and, indeed, in doing so, finding more problems to solve.

On each card students are encourage to 'Have a go at some (or all!) of these problems at home. They are problems we find interesting or just plain amusing. Ask your parents, brothers and sisters, or friends to try and do the problems with you, or against you!' Students should be encouraged to return the card to a teacher and, if possible, have a chat with them about it. Ideally, students who attempt the most problems should be rewarded at the end of a half or full term - being celebrated perhaps an assembly and/or through school-home communication (Newsletter, special single-item communication from the Headteacher, social-media), and perhaps receiving a mathematically themed prize.

Each card is presented here as a 1/3 A4 sized 'brochure', three on an A4 sheet to print double-sided and cut-to-size, with the reverse providing some blank space for solutions. They may be stored in departmental corridors, in a wall-mounted leaflet dispenser such as shown in the second image below, or perhaps in an outdoor brochure dispenser box for members of the public to pick up (both can be purchased from most major educational suppliers).

A set of 100 mathematical quotes, curios, provocations, etc. ( more added regularly), designed for use in mathematics spaces to colour our classrooms with mathematics, and avoid moreover the 'cheeze-fest' of the motivational poster, as Tom Sherrington memorably described it in this post. The real risk that the explicitly motivational poster that urges you to have a 'growth mindset' actually reinforces a 'fixed mindset' is removed with the use of posters whose fundamental purpose is to celebrate the subject you are studying.
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Mathematical Formulae Display
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A set of over 50 A4 (or A3) sized posters displaying the formulae that students will come across in the course of their mathematics and statistics studies up to GCSE. Each poster is designed to be printed on acetate and affixed to windows for a 'stained glass' effect, as illustrated in the image below.
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A set of over 80 posters displaying the key mathematical vocabulary (with definitions) that students will come across in the course of their mathematics studies up to GCSE. Each poster is designed to be printed on A4 (or A3) acetate, cut to size and affixed to windows for a 'stained glass' effect, as illustrated in the image below.

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Maths in the News Corridor Leaflets
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Brochure style leaflets (more added regularly) outlining recent news reports with a mathematical bent. As with the 'Extra Stuff to do at Home' cards, the leaflets are intended to be housed in school corridors for students to pick up a problem as and when and if they wish. They are about promoting an interest in the wider aspects of mathematics, as well as heightening students' awareness of the relevance of mathematics in everyday life.

Each leaflet is presented here as a 1/3 A4 sized 'brochure', to be folded in thirds. They may be stored in departmental corridors, in a wall-mounted leaflet dispenser such as shown in the second image in the 'Extra Stuff to do at Home' section, or perhaps in an outdoor brochure dispenser box for members of the public to pick up (both can be purchased from most major educational suppliers).

A template is provided for schools and teachers to populate as desired.

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Multiplication Tables Practice Booklets
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A set of 4-page booklets, designed for children to improve their recall - and the rapidity of their recall - of simple multiples, from 1 × 1 to 12 × 12, through embedding their understanding of what a multiple is, what a multiple means. Each booklet follows exactly the same format and is intended to be completed ideally one-to-one in discussion with another person that is proficient with their 'times tables', e.g. parent, teacher, teaching assistant, elder sibling. Each booklet is best suited, therefore, for intervention work with individual students or small groups.

Working through each booklet will support children's understanding of the commutative nature of multiplication, their appreciation of the link between multiplication and division, their appreciation about how our language makes a difference to our understanding, and their burgeoning understanding of multiples relatively as rates. Each booklet - presented for an A3 double-sided print and fold to A3, or printed in 4 separate A4 pages - has QR code links to the excellent and simple online ' Maths from Scratch' resources, which puts recent research into practice with children practising groups of four multiples at a time at gradually increasing speeds. Each booklet ends with a gradated 'mission impossible' test that children can complete timed or not.
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