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Jar of Links – Maths sites

I seem to be stock-piling links at the moment!! Here are the maths ones! Many thanks to Jenny for the first two links. SenTeacher have got several printables available, including printouts for the construction of common 3D shapes. Cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone, regular pyramid, octahedron, rhomboid, tetrahedron, pentagonal prism and pyramid are included. I also [...]

Visual Mnemonics

I mentioned in my Times Tables post that we had used visual mnemonics to learn some Italian words, and I thought I would expand on that in this post. Mnemonic systems were developed by the Greeks (the name being derived from their worship of the Goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne). They discovered that memory worked best [...]

Times Tables

We have been re-visiting our times tables the last few weeks (to be fair – I am the one who needs the practice!). Some of these resources are already on my blog, but I thought it would be useful to pull them all together. Big Brainz have a multiplication PC game called Timez Attack. You [...]

Making Maths Fun!

I am still working on the projects pages – trying to get the Maths one up soon as possible. But in the meantime, and given that we have been using these this week – here are a couple of maths resources to keep you going! First is The Multiplication Tables Colouring Book The children work out [...]

Index

This is an index of the articles and project pages, to help you find what you are looking for : Articles How I learn Projects Mathematics A listing of maths resources. Curriculums and courses A listing of curriculum suppliers, including maths courses and A levels. Mining Resources for a Mining Project