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Videos to educate EYFS/Reception/Kindergarten/young children and to inspire and support adults and teachers who work with them!

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Are your students learning to count? These online counting games help early learners practice identifying numbers and counting, as well as master the concepts of greater than and less than. Additionally, students can practice ordinal numbers.

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Original and fun counting games (1-20) aimed at increasing math fluency & math facts in the kindergarten classroom. Ordinal numbers, place value, five frame, ten frame, greater than/less than, "How many?" & more! Trusted by teachers around the world. Free to play, priceless to learn.

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Numberblocks - Help your child be epic at maths

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Give your child a head start in Maths: everything parents need to know about Numeracy development from 0-6 with fun activities you can build into everyday life and play

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Solving Together is an exciting project, funded by Nesta and Tata, which aims to promote parental engagement with mathematics.

This project focuses on family-friendly homework activities for Year 7 (age 11-12) students. We suggest that parents/carers and their children work together on one activity each week, over a six week period.

Parents and carers may wish to watch our Guidance for Parents video before trying out the activities with children.

The Guidance for Teachers explains the thinking behind this project, and offers suggestions for how to follow up the homework activities in class.

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Solving Together is an exciting project, funded by Nesta and Tata, which aims to promote parental engagement with mathematics. This project focuses on family-friendly homework activities for Year 7 (age 11-12) students. We suggest that parents/carers and their children work together on one activity each week, over a six week period.

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Maths Chase - Times Tables Games - Fun Maths Tests

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Maths Chase provides free maths games to help students learn. Test your times tables, addition and other maths skills in a fun and engaging way.

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Maths Zone Cool Learning Games - Maths Games and Learning Activties for Fun

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Home Learning

At McMillan Nursery School, we are committed to the education of all our children. During these uncertain times we want to reassure parents that the children's education is still at the forefront of our minds.

A MESSAGE TO PARENTS HOME-SCHOOLING DURING THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK

It can be worrying during this strange time when we are all suddenly thrown into 'home schooling'. It can feel like we should be teaching our children maths and English and sitting at the table completing worksheets with them. But it's really important to remember that, while school education is important, we as parents are our children's first and most valuable teachers. This is an opportunity for us to teach our children the things they wouldn't normally learn in school. The things we wish we could spend time on, but we're always too busy with the school run, homework and housework. Things like cooking, baking, getting themselves dressed, learning to tie their shoe laces. This is an ideal time to master toilet training, or learn how to ride a bike.

Children learn so much through play and it is vital that we allow plenty of time for play- and to play with them. Teach them how to share and take turns and solve problems.

Don't underestimate the value of spending quality time with your children. This is the time we can share our knowledge with them without being interrupted by the daily grind.

This time will come to end, so let's get the most out of it and make it a positive experience for our children, and for us too.

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At McMillan Nursery School, we are committed to the education of all our children. During these uncertain times we want to reassure parents that the children's education is still at the forefront of our minds. A MESSAGE TO PARENTS HOME-SCHOOLING DURING THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK It can be worrying during this strange time when we are all suddenly thrown into 'home schooling'.

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Learning to count is fun with this range of free educational games for Key Stage 1 children. Start with the simple counting games and progress to numbers up to 100. There are also matching and sequencing numbers activities.

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Free, interactive, learning to count games for 5 to 7 year olds involve numbers from 1 to 100.

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A basic numeral recognition activitiy. Develop your mouse control and number skills by matching number digits to words in the 1 to 10 range.

A drag and drop alien making activity to develop mouse control skills and to develop language. Use the worksheet to direct the activity more tightly.
Friends-to-make

This simple labelling activity can be used to reinforce the idea of labels and as a framework for children to begin to add their own captions and labels to familiar scenes such as a teddy bear's picnic.
picnic lesson outline

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Free online interactive EYFS, Foundation Stage and Early Years resources, activities and games. Help your child with early learning goals. Learning through play is the perfect way to teach 3-4 year olds first skills in counting, initial sounds, colours, compare and order, matching and mouse skills.

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Reception / EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage)

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BBC Teach - School Radio. Resources to support EYFS including nursery rhymes, stories, music and listening games. Ideal for fostering early literacy skills and listening skills. BBC School Radio. BBC Teach.

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Learn Through Play with Busy Things! | Busy Things

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Help children learn through play with Busy Things. We have fun educational games for kids aged 3-11 on a huge range of subjects. Try a FREE trial today!

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Learning to Count with these fun Counting Games

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Children will love learning to count up to 10 with these free, fun counting games.

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We hope that you and your families are safe and well.

As you will have experienced during this difficult time, many things have had to change and evolve.

Due to the pandemic, the LIME events will not be able to take place in the same format as previous years. However, that does not mean that we are not still here to support you.

LIME CPD for 2020-21 will this consist of information and links to highly recommended online CPD sessions. All events are immediately available and link to free CPD which has been produced during this period by some fantastic individuals/teams; Craig Barton, ResearchEd and La Salle Education.

We apologise that the LIME experience is unable to return as we once knew it, however, we hope that we can still be of support to your development.

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Range Arranger || Ordering non-consecutive numbers on a Jenga theme

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These mathematical activities can be used with pupils aged 7 to 16. The activities can be used either by individual pupils, small groups or with the whole class using a projector or an interactive whiteboard.

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All the resources on my website are shared freely. It is my passion to help bring the joy of mathematical art into classrooms around the world. If you use my resources and would like to support my work, perhaps you would like to

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Hit the Button

Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubling, halving, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock. Brilliant for improving mental maths and calculation skills, but particularly times tables either up to 10 or up to 12 times.

Subtraction Grids

Can you meet the challenge to see how many subtraction calculations you can do in two minutes? There are different levels and you can choose either one or two missing numbers to make your number sentence correct.

Mental Maths Train

Mental Maths Train is a maths game which focuses on the essential vocabulary of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. A multiple choice game which can give children confidence in the four arithmetic operations.

Caterpillar Ordering

A flexible game for ordering numbers and for number sequences. Fantastic on an interactive whiteboard. Levels range from ordering and sequencing numbers to 5 up to decimals.

Rocket Rounding

A multiple choice game involving rounding numbers to ten, a hundred and to a whole number. There are two options, one with a number line and the other more difficult level, without one.

Multiples and Factors

A multiple choice game with two game modes. In the first you need to identify the Lowest Common Multiple and in the second the Highest Common Factor. Questions increase in difficulty depending on accuracy

Shape Patterns

Shape Patterns is a sequencing game where children from 3 to 8 years of age need to complete the pattern of different coloured 2D shapes. Three levels of difficulty.

Teddy Numbers

The Teddy Numbers game can help you to learn numbers to 15. Learn the digits and words for the numbers and it game can help you learn to count too.

Calculation Balance

An excellent site for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division practice. Good for learning your times tables. Also it is a useful tool for teachers to demonstrate balancing simple equations.

Underwater Counting

Can you find the treasure? You need to count the underwater creatures. This game has two levels: Count to 5 and Count to 10.

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Hit the Button Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubling, halving, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock. Brilliant for improving mental maths and calculation skills, but particularly times tables either up to 10 or up to 12 times.

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A website to inspire creativity in maths

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Easy-to-follow active learning videos covering topics including division, number bonds and times tables.

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Colin Foster, Nelson Thornes, 2003, ISBN 0748786694 "These books are just what their titles suggest they should be. They are packed with ideas for starters, investigations, extension work, plenaries and for generally enhancing the routine work done in the classroom ... simply a collection of excellent ideas ... an inspiring source of ideas ... I thoroughly recommend these books."

Colin Foster, Nelson Thornes, 2003, ISBN 0748786708 "With only a little preparation these ideas can be incorporated or attached to a scheme of work to reinforce and vary the approach ... It is a useful addition to your bookshelf." here to read the entire review.

"No time to plan? Too busy to be creative? These books fulfil the dreams of busy teachers who need to teach core curriculum topics in ways which stimulate, excite and challenge all their students. Every idea in these books encourages mathematical thinking, deep understanding, and learning key mathematical ideas. Colin Foster has collected a wide range of tried-and-tested tasks and contexts to teach core curriculum topics and organised them to be accessible for quick planning. Indispensable!" Anne Watson, Professor of Mathematics Education, Oxford University

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Colin Foster, Nelson Thornes, 2003, ISBN 0748786694 "These books are just what their titles suggest they should be. They are packed with ideas for starters, investigations, extension work, plenaries and for generally enhancing the routine work done in the classroom ... simply a collection of excellent ideas ...

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PixiMaths | Free Maths Teaching Resources | Homepage | Oakham

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Welcome to PixiMaths where you will find an assortment of resources as well as SOWs and assessments for the new 9-1 maths GCSE.

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We worked with SMILE (and BEAM) when we were all projects within the Inner London Education Authority and after abolition when SMILE was lodged with Kensington and Chelsea to help develop more collaborative talk and EAL friendly versions of the activities.

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Information, resources and links for the live lessons hosted by Gareth Metcalfe during UK school closures for Covid-19. New lessons every school day!

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Look at the changes in results on some of the athletics track events at the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948. What will the results be in 2012? This slightly more challenging activity encourages children to examine data and consider different kinds of influencing factors, and is designed to be accessible to primary pupils at Key Stage 2.

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A different Mathematics lesson starter for each day of the year designed to engage learners with a range of puzzles, exercises and creative ideas. Click on a date in the calendar above for the Starter Of The Day.

You can embed the Starter Of The Day calendar into your own school website or blog.

"I have used your website for the last four years for free and felt guilty every time I used it as it is so brilliant and I feel guilty getting something so good for free. It has changed the way I teach (and after 35 years of teaching that is a real achievement). I now think it is time I paid for the pleasure of using the site."

Clive, UK

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Screen capture of the Rosenshine Masterclass slides in five key videos plus an introduction.

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SlidesCarnival: Free PowerPoint & Google Slides Templates That Stand Out

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These are the instruments, systems and networks we'll develop next, with the goals of helping teachers take ownership of their professional learning and enhance their practice for the benefit of students.

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What are the best bets for teachers to invest time and effort in if they want their students to learn more? The Great Teaching Toolkit sets out to answer this question and provide the instruments with which teachers can take ownership of professional learning and to help them enhance their practice for the benefit of students.

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What is retrieval practice? – Retrieval Practice

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Doorway Online is a collection of free and highly accessible educational games that learners will find easy to use independently. Each activity has a range of accessibility and difficulty options. Originally developed with funding from Scottish Borders Council, it is now managed by the Doorway Accessible Software Trust, a Scottish charity.

Filed Under: Tagged With: News accessible, activities, educational, free, games, interactive, interactive whiteboard, iwb, learning, literacy, maths, numeracy, school, spelling, typing

We are proud to announce Text Type, the final version of our touch typing activity. Please read these notes carefully.

We have made numerous changes to Text Type to make it more accessible:

Enhanced speech feedback echoing all keypresses and on-screen text. This makes Text Type accessible to leaners with extremely low vision, with some support.

We have increased the size of the target text to make TextType more accessible to visually impaired learners.

As far as possible, Text Type can be navigated by keypresses. These are the standard keys to navigate web browsers. TAB, Enter, the Up and Down Arrow Keys.

Doorway Single Handed Typing has been added to Text Type. This allows learners with use of a single hand to practise typing using exercises developed for their particular need. Select Left or Right from the title screen.

Teipio Testun Text Type is now a totally bilingual activity The Welsh Governement has paid for this development including the above improvements. Text Type/Teipio Testun is also available on their education website, The Hwb.

Browsers - Text Type has been tested on Microsoft Edge and Chrome. It should work in Firefox, but this is not guaranteed.
An important notice about the Speech Output
In previous versions of Text Type, the target letter (female voice) and any mistyped letter (male voice) were spoken by recorded human voices. Text Type now uses text to speech voices. The first time you use Text Type, you will need to choose the voices.

These voices are specific to the browser:

In Microsoft Edge, Sonia Online and George might be a good choice

In Chrome, the choice is between the Microsoft voices and the Google voices, female and male.

In Firefox, you can use a favourite pair of SAPI voices such as Cerevoice Heather and Stuart which are particularly clear in differentiating the names of the letters. You will have to use Firefox, which still supports SAPI voices. Firefox is not officially supported, but we have found no issues with Text Type and Firefox.

Documentation. We have produced a guide to Text Type/Teipio Testun in English, for learners in both languages.

To download this documentation, use the link below:

Two previous versions
For the moment we are keeping two previous versions on the site, TT3 phase 2 and TT3 phase 3. These are no longer supported and may not be kept here much longer.

Scheduled maintenance will be happening to the Doorway website on 16-02-2022 between 9 am and 3pm. During this time the site may not be available for around 10 to 15 minutes.

We are sorry if this causes you any inconvenience.

Doorway Online is designed to run on the following supported web browsers:

Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox (should be compatible).

If you are experiencing problems accessing our site or activities please check you are using one of the above browsers and that your browser is up-to-date.

If you are still experiencing problems please fill in an error report and we will get back to you.

Note: Internet Explorer is no longer supported by our site as it will soon be retired by Microsoft.

Important Update: There is even more up-to-date version of Text Type. Read more about this update here.

We have completed Text Type 3, the touch typing tutor for visually impaired learners that should suit anyone learning to touch type.
The new features are aimed at learners with very low vision:

Text to Speech is available for almost all on-screen text

TAB, Space and Enter can be used to access most functions

Newly recorded female and male voices are used to prompt the next keypress and warn of an incorrect keypress

Single-Handed Typing is now included in Text Type 3

We invite you to take a look at Text Type 3.

Text Type 3 phase 2, has been available on the site for over a year and will be available for three more months. It can be found here.

With the decline of Adobe Flash, soon some of our activities may not continue to function. The following activities have been renewed and will continue to work: Text Type, Speller 2, Letter & Number Formation, Cashing In and the First Phonics suite.

Fortunately, the downloadable version of our remaining activities should continue to run on Windows computers. All of our activities can be downloaded for free below!

The file is zipped and will need to be extracted before use ( how to extract/unzip a file). For installation on a school network, a request will need to be made to the network administrator.

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Doorway Activities were originally developed in Adobe Flash. This was a good way to develop such activities up to eight or ten tears or so ago. However, Apple decided not to support Flash and later tablets entered the scene. There was a solution in Puffin Browser. Our older activities still work on PCs and Android devices with Puffin Browser installed. This is no longer available on the Apple Store.

We have been able to re-code these activities to work with almost all computers and devices;

Text Type 3

Speller 2

Letter & Number Formation

Cashing In

First Phonics suite, incorporating First Sounds; First Words; First Blends; First Digraphs; More Digraphs; First Blends

First Phonics. The suite of activities now working with most devices.

These have been developed in the modern format of html5 and JavaScript and there are no restrictions to their working on browsers on PCs and Macs. They also work on tablets although on iPads they do not enter full-screen mode as they do on Android tablets. For the remaining activities, we hope to convert more.

In the meantime, if you want to access the Flash-based activities on this site; - Do not use Chrome Browser. Firefox is more friendly to Flash-based activities. If you are using a PC you can buy the Doorway Activity USB pen-drive and install the activities directly to your PC, Pendrive or Network, or even run them directly from the USB stick. It's available now at £ 10, below cost price from [email protected]. There is no copyright restriction any more.

The Doorway Activity Pack, now on USB pen-drive. All the Flash-based activities from the website should work on all Windows PCs. This includes networked PCs, but installation may require a network administrator.

We expect that you'll be able to download these activities directly from this site before too long. Watch this space .................

We are working on the final phase of Text Type 3, the touch typing tutor that can take learners from the home keys to mastery of the whole keyboard and typing sentences. This activity is designed to be as accessible as possible to visually impaired learners as possible. The final version should be accessible even to blind learners, after some initial guidance.

Learning to touch type.
There are some things that you need to know before supporting a learner on the road to touch typing

Touch Typing is just that. There should be no keeking at the keyboard. Do not look at the keyboard or your hands, all the information you need is on the screen in Doorway Touch Type.

Touch typing is a motor learning experience. This means not looking at your hands. The best way to ensure this is to cover the learner's hands with a light cloth. If you truly learn to touch type this skill will last a lifetime like riding a bike. Even learners with mild VI can be tempted to peep.

Motor learning is a very powerful tool and such skills will remin with you thoughout life. However you need to be careful. An incorrect motor habit is very hard to correct. So get it right from the start.

You need to get into a comfortable position in which the hands fall naturally onto the keyboard. The surface on which the keyboard stands must not be too high. The wrists may rest on pads if you are typing for a long time.

A Touch Typing programme is a series of lessons starting with the home keys (A S D F J K L ; ) and leading to full mastery of the keyboard. Moving on to the next exercise without sufficient mastery of the current exercise, will only lead to disappointment later on. A score of 90% or one error in every ten keypresses should be the minimum achievement before moving on. 94% or better is our recommended level of accuracy before moving on.

Learners benefit from regular practice. Little and often is best.

Accuracy should come before speed. Start slowly. If you can type at a regular pace, almost to a beat, it will help you achieve a high speed.

Doorway Text Type is a series of exercises that, followed properly, can lead to a high rate of accuracy in typing and a good rate in terms of words per minute. In handwritten exams with a lot of writing involved. Writing at a rate of 20 words per minute is an arduous task. For a typist that is a low rate of entry. A rate of 40 words per minute is entirely realistic for a sixteen-year-old typist coming up to exams.

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Doorway Online does not collect any information about users.

Text Type 3 stores the results from a user's last session on the computer it is accessed from, but we cannot see that data.

We use Google Analytics to give us usage figures for our activities. This is anonymised data that allows us to see which countries users are accessing our site from, which activities they access and allows us to check for bandwidth issues. It is not possible for us to identify a school or an individual user. We also get anonymised data from Google ads. These adverts are usually blocked in schools.

If you communicate with us by emailing [email protected], our mail server may store your email address. However, we will not use this address to communicate with you except regarding the issue you contacted us about. Your email address will be shared with no other organisation.
Email addresses will be deleted from our mail server when we no longer require them and in any case, two years after our last contact with you. You may send an email to that address asking for your emails and email address to be deleted.

A teacher in East Lothian has made up some very useful record sheets for students to keep track of their progress through the Speller levels. He has been generous in making them available to all.

They are in a compressed zip file which you may have to open using WinZip.

Thanks again to Darren Donnelly, PT Support For Learning, Musselburgh Grammar School for compiling these word lists.

The off-line version of Doorway activities for Windows PCs or laptops which had poor or no internet access has been the Doorway Activity Pack CD. This installs the activities onto your hard disc, server or pen-drive. Typically these were licensed by a school or LEA. We are no longer charging for this, beyond the costs of materials and copying.

We will be making the Doorway Activities freely downloadable. We must thank those authorities that licensed the Doorway Activity Pack CD when we started up. Those licence fees kept us going when finances were terribly tight. Now, it makes sense to make them freely available.
Coming Soon

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These mathematical activities can be used with pupils aged 7 to 16. The activities can be used either by individual pupils, small groups or with the whole class using a projector or an interactive whiteboard.

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Free Parking

Free Parking

Instructions

The object of the game is to become the wealthiest player through buying and renting property and answering multiple choice mathematics questions.

Players take turns to roll two dice and move around the playing board the number of spaces indicated by the sum of the two dice. Whenever a player lands on an unowned property they may buy that property at its given price. If any other player then lands on that property they pay the owner the indicated rent.

If a player's funds fall below £0 they will be declared bankrupt and be out of the game.

This game is for two to four players. Please select:

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Click your answer, or use the Q or P keys on your keyboard.

You can also type Q or P to continue.

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You can also type Q or P to continue.

Answer by clicking, or with Q and P.

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You Can't Do Simple Maths Under Pressure

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Possibly the most addictive maths quiz ever made.

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Math Centers that Deliver | HappyNumbers.com

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Welcome to Corbettmaths Primary! Home to 1000's of maths resources: Videos, Worksheets, Primary 5-a-day, Primary Study Cards and much more.

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

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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!
Craig

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Same Surface, Different Deep Structure maths problems from Craig Barton @mrbartonmaths

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Place Value Basketball helps you to understand the concept of hundreds, tens and ones. You need to recognise the Dienes base ten blocks and match to numbers up to three digits on the basketballs.

Place value is a difficult concept and this game can help you to know the value of each number depending on its position.

As with all of our games, Place Value Basketball works well on an interactive whiteboard.

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5-8 Years

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Maths Place Value

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Place Value Basketball - Dienes Game for 5 to 8 Year Olds

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Place Value Basketball is a fun, base ten blocks game which helps children aged 5 to 8 to know what each digit in a either a two or three digit number represents.

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Range Arranger || Ordering non-consecutive numbers on a Jenga theme

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Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?

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Can you complete this jigsaw of the 100 square?

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A video tutorial is also available to demonstrate how to use this applet.

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How Many: Identify how many items or empty squares there are.

Build: Drag a certain number of items to the frame.

Fill: Determine how many items are needed to fill the remaining squares.

Add: Drag items to complete addition problems.

Choosing Play All from the Games menu will randomize which of the four games is played.

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The items to be used can be chosen in the upper left corner: circles, bugs, stars, or apples.

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The Next button advances to the next problem.

The Done button should be clicked when a student believes that she has correctly completed a frame.

The number buttons at the bottom of the screen can be used to enter an answer, or the computer keyboard can be used.

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The four games that can be played with this applet help to develop counting and addition skills.

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Practice counting with Christmas Candles Memory at Digipuzzle.net

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How will you work out which numbers have been used to create this multiplication square?

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You have a set of the digits from $0$ - $9$.

Can you arrange these digits in the five boxes below to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible? You may use each digit once only.

How will you know that your solution is as close to the targets as possible?

You could use this interactivity to try out your ideas.

This activity has been adapted from one of BEAM's free Maths of the Month resources, which unfortunately are no longer available.

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You have a set of the digits from $0$ - $9$. Can you arrange these digits in the five boxes below to make two-digit numbers as close to the targets as possible? You may use each digit once only. How will you know that your solution is as close to the targets as possible?

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Hit the Button is an interactive maths game with quick fire questions on number bonds, times tables, doubling and halving, multiples, division facts and square numbers. The games, which are against the clock, challenge and develop mental maths skills. An untimed, practise mode is available in our Hit the Button app along with lots more extra features.

The activities can be matched to appropriate mathematical ability. Regular use of Hit the Button can help students to sharpen their recall of vital number facts in a fun way and learning multiplication tables need not be boring.

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6-11 Years

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Maths Times Tables Division Number Bonds Doubles Halves Square Numbers

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Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds

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Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubles, halves, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock. Superb!

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This game can be played against a friend or against the computer.

Players take it in turns to click on a dot on the grid - first player's dots will be blue and the second player's (or computer's) will be red.
If you choose to play with a friend rather than the computer click "2 player", (click "1 player " if you choose to play the computer).
The winner is the first to have four dots that are shown joined by straight lines to form a square.

Squares can be any size, anywhere and can be tilted.

For a further challenge, why not increase the size of the grid using the arrow buttons?

If you are not using the interactive game, you may like to print off some dotty paper.

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This game can be played against a friend or against the computer. Players take it in turns to click on a dot on the grid - first player's dots will be blue and the second player's (or computer's) will be red.

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What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares of the same size?

Please do send us pictures of the arrangements of your squares.
We would also like to know how you go about the task. How will you know if your way really does have the greatest possible number of squares?

You could use this interactivity to try out your ideas:

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What is the greatest number of squares you can make by overlapping three squares of the same size? Please do send us pictures of the arrangements of your squares. We would also like to know how you go about the task. How will you know if your way really does have the greatest possible number of squares?

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3-Act tasks provide engaging, thought-provoking contexts for mathematical enquiry. Act 1 shows the context for the enquiry and allows children to generate questions - what do they wonder? What extra information do they need? In act 2, more information is provided; children are then given the chance to speculate and calculate before the solution is revealed in act 3!

The concept of 3-act tasks is explained in this brilliant Dan Meyer TED talk and the examples below have been written by the inspirational Graham Fletcher - click here to see all of Graham's 3-act tasks. I hope to design some 3-act tasks of my own soon!

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3-Act tasks provide engaging, thought-provoking contexts for mathematical enquiry. Act 1 shows the context for the enquiry and allows children to generate questions - what do they wonder? What extra information do they need? In act 2, more information is provided; children are then given the chance to speculate and calculate before the solution is revealed in act 3!

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PixiMaths | Free Maths Teaching Resources | Homepage | Oakham

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Welcome to PixiMaths where you will find an assortment of resources as well as SOWs and assessments for the new 9-1 maths GCSE.

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The deadline for entries for the 2020 Ultimate STEM Challenge has now closed. This year's theme focused on 'wearable tech' inviting pupils across the UK to come up with amazing ideas for new wearable tech that will improve our lives in the future. For the first time this year, the challenge was opened to 9-11-year-olds across the UK. With entries to be...

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The deadline for entries for the 2020 Ultimate STEM Challenge has now closed. This year's theme focused on 'wearable tech' inviting pupils across the UK to come up with amazing ideas for new wearable tech that will improve our lives in the future.

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Adult Numeracy, Functional Maths, and GCSE Resources

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Simon from Here to Teach (HTT) has many wonderful work-throughs of Edexcel and C&G Functional Maths papers (E3 , L1, L2). Well paced with very excellent audio and video, showing clear methods and working out c. Marvellous for learners to watch over and over as many times as needed.

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Are you curious about this incredibly visual and versatile mathematical tool? You should be! The REKENREK is beginning to gain popularity world wide from it'...

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Estimation 180

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ESTIMATION 180 is a place for both students and teachers to enjoy making sense of math and develop their number sense together.

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Eddie Gray & David Tall are two British researchers who worked with students, aged 7 to 13, who had been nominated by their teachers as being low, middle or high achieving students. All of the students were given number problems, such as adding or subtracting two numbers. The researchers found an im…

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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.

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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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Equals Online - Mathematics and Special Educational Needs is a valuable resource for those working to ensure that all pupils will benefit from mathematics.

Classroom teachers need the best support to develop good practice in line with current initiatives and it is the aim of Equals to provide this support in a number of practical ways. Age range: 3-18 years

Equals Online is produced by teachers and curriculum/SEN specialists dedicated to opening up mathematics to low attainers.

In practical terms it provides support through the exchange of ideas to help teachers reveal the excitement and applicability of mathematics to those who have in the past found the subject inaccessible and/or irrelevant.

Equals is primarily concerned with teachers sharing good practice, experience and ideas. To this end we welcome submissions from colleagues who have ideas or activities that they feel need trying out or sharing. Updates on issues affecting practice, book reviews, practical ideas and resources are just some of the features of Equals Online...

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