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These free resources and activities provide a taste of the materials that you can find on Maths Online. The aim is to provide resources that enable you to use ICT to facilitate your pupils' understanding and learning of maths and enhance your teaching.

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Decimals Number Lines Whiteboard Tool
Zoom in or out of number lines. Lines from 0 to 0.1, 0 to 1, 0 to 10, 0 to 100, 0 to 1000 and -5 to 5. This is one of many whiteboard tools that can be found on Maths Online.

Using a spreadsheet to carry out number investigations
Spreadsheets never get fed up of carrying out the same operations over and over again. Use ICT to have a go at two number investigations.

Skateboarders

Use this simulation to demonstrate time-distance graphs. Three skateboarders skate across the screen, speed them up, slow them down, watch the graph being generated. Stop time and interpret the graph.


Goldilocks Maths: solving equations by trial and improvement
Solve x² - x = 7 and you could win one million pounds.

Tossing coins simulation

Toss up to ten coins, ten million times. Work out the expected outcomes and compare them with the experimental results. This is one of several probability simulations on Maths Online.


Games Room
Canoe Slalom
Use your knowledge of bearings to negotiate a slalom course in the fastest time.


Worksheet Library

An almost infinite number of mental arithmetic tests based on the Key Stage 3 mental arithmetic tests. Supplied with answers!
Mental Arithmetic Test Creator


News

World Cup Maths
Keeping maths in the news or using the news in maths lessons. The football World Cup provided several possible mathematical activities.
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