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Tick or Trash
Tick or Trash is an idea shared by Lisa-Marie Doyle, a colleague I worked with in Knowsley, now working in Crewe. From Lisa’s idea Number Loving have produced a number of tick or trash worksheets,...
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Halloween Pop-Up Spiders and 3D Shapes
Our next idea for a mathematical Halloween activity involves 3D shapes. Using a pop-up dodecahedron pupils can review the properties of 3D shapes such as vertices, faces and edges and have a great...
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Number Loving’s 1st Birthday!
Wow over 160, 000 visitors this year! Myself and Laura are made up to be celebrating the success of Number Loving in its first year! Our Top Ten Posts 1) Mathematical Fortune Tellers; using this...
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Our Top Ten Downloaded Resources
So here they are our readers favourite resources free to download from http://www.numberloving.co.uk 1) Adding Fractions Mystery; Thinking skills activity, pupils use the clues to solve the mystery. 2)...
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Mathematical Shapes Calendar, Origami
New Year, New calendar Inspired by David Mitchell’s Mathematical Origami book , I started to think what about using an origami dodecahedron as a calendar! A quick search revealed it had been done!...
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Creating a Multi Surface Learning Environment
Tables On a budget Create a multi-surface learning environment on a budget is simple using paper tablecloths. Table Paper can be bought from most large supermarkets. Asda sell a pack of four for p and...
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Easter Mathematical Mysteries
Last year we blogged about some of our favourite resources to use at Easter time (read the blog post here) a lot of these resources, and others on the web, are aimed at KS2 or lower ability KS3...
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Exam Warm Up Revision Resources
Only a matter of time till the next exam series and I decided to build in mini-revision to each lesson between now and then. Hence the birth of Number Loving’s differentiated exam warm up resources...
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Four Pictures One Maths Word
Inspired by Reflective Maths blog here and Mr Collins post here I got my thinking cap on and came up with the following maths versions of the latest craze! All of these can be downloaded in one Power...
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Body Surface Area and other fun tasks!
One of my absolute favourite websites for practical lesson ideas is teach maths. It is full of free lesson plans across the whole curriculum, more importantly all of the lessons are hands on and...
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Bells for BIDMAS and More
Hi there! We haven’t blogged in a while as we are busy behind the scenes bringing you some changes to the website and a lot of great new resources, please watch this space! BIDMAS Bells The class is...
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Pimp Your Displays
Hello Readers! Its been a while since we’ve blogged, we promise it’s for a good reason as we work behind the scenes on the next phase for NumberLoving which we can’t wait to share!! Watch this space!...
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Volume with Mario and Luigi
One of our most popular blog posts to date has been “Nets to catch Angry Birds” (view here) in which these computer game characters are constructed into 3D shapes using nets. Leading to investigations...
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Spooktacular Colour by Numbers
Colour by number is a well known childhood activity and in most cases requires no maths other than number recognition. Take for example this Halloween Scarecrow picture, which I have...
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New Number Loving!
Number Loving has been on a bit of a break lately, we needed a bit of time away to concentrate on our day jobs to be honest! But we’ve been really busy recently upgrading the website and developing...
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AQA Maths Topic Analysis
It’s getting to that time of year where we start to think about year 11 revision, but it’s sometimes hard to know where to start. Obviously you speak to your class and you analyse their mock papers but...
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Valentine’s Mysteries!
Obviously at Number Loving we are big fans of Valentine’s day, so to celebrate next week have a bit of fun with our bundle of seasonal mysteries. Mysteries are a great way to hone your students problem...
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How do you teach yours? Dept. CPD
Effective use of department time, this is a daunting task for a newly appointed head of department! So like most when I first took this responsibility I made sharing good practice (SGP) a permanent...
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Easter Maths Treasure Hunt
Since starting as HOD I’ve been trying to raise the profile of maths around the school. This year I’ve decided to set up an Easter themed treasure hunt. On Friday I ‘hid’ 12 questions around the school...
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Easter Mathematical Mysteries
Last year we blogged about some of our favourite resources to use at Easter time (read the blog post here) a lot of these resources, and others on the web, are aimed at KS2 or lower ability KS3...
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