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WHY MATHS – Why go further!
Hear from different people on why they chose to study Further Maths and how it has benefited them. If your school or college doesn’t offer Further Maths, you can do online tuition with the AMSP
WHY MATHS – I can’t do it!
Hear how people have overcome barriers to become more confident with maths.
WHY MATHS – When will I ever need this?
Hear how the maths you learn at school will help you with anything you do in life.
International Day of Mathematics 2023 – Euclid and beyond
How are you celebrating the International Day of Mathematics (IDM) 2023? This year the theme is Mathematics for Everyone
MEI Inspired 2022 recordings and materials
Recordings from MEI Inspired 2022 - a series of webinars designed to inspire you, enrich your teaching and benefit your students’ learning.
Race to the target!
This event introduces students to the family of games of NIM and supports them in discovering strategies to win in different situations.
How much is too much?
This event introduces students to the game of ‘Pig’ in which players score using a die and decide when to roll and when to ‘bank’ their score. It explores the maths used to work out the optimal strategy and discusses when this might not be the best way to play!
Making a Million
This event builds on your students’ knowledge of percentages which we develop into the basics of exponentials and logs, combined with their reasoning and problem-solving skills, to provide the opportunity to evaluate investment strategies and determine if they really can make £1,000,000!
Are you psychic?
This event will draw on your students' knowledge of probability, along with their reasoning, problem-solving and communication skills, to make decisions based on statistics about their psychic ability!
Maths Feast materials
Maths Feast is a fun educational challenge for Year 10 students which tests problem-solving and teamwork skills. Teams of four students will test their maths skills with our all-you-can-eat feast of problems!
11-16 Geometry – Maths Feast 2016 – Comprehension
Identify properties of the faces, surfaces, edges and vertices of: cubes, cuboids, prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres.
11-16 Ratio – Swimming Problem
Solve problems involving direct and inverse proportion, including graphical and algebraic representations.
11-16 Algebra – The Collatz Conjecture
Generate terms of a sequence from either a term-to-term or a position-to-term rule.
11-16 Algebra – Your Food’s carbon footprint
Calculate or estimate gradients of graphs and areas under graphs (including quadratic and other non-linear graphs), and interpret results in cases such as distance-time graphs, velocity-time graphs
International Day of Mathematics 2022 – The Connected World
How are you celebrating the International Day of MathematicsOpens a new window (IDM) 2022? This year the theme is Mathematics Unites, and we’ll be looking at how we can study how united we are across the world.
Where’s the Maths in that?
An engaging and easy to use set of visual resources that beg the question: ”Where’s the maths in that?”
International Day of Mathematics 2021 – The Journey of Cocoa
Covers topics including two way tables, averages and comparing data, and can be extended to the transportation problem through Decision Maths.
International Day of Mathematics 2021 – Comparing Chocolate
Covers topics including proportional reasoning, surface area and scatter graphs.
Pringle Permutations
This activity uses an advert from the 2019 Superbowl to explore permutations and combinations.
Victor Vasarely Cube
Explore the work of Victor Vasarely and optical illusions using isometric drawing.