Free Critical Maths Resources

Critical Maths is a post-16 mathematical thinking curriculum developed by MEI with DfE funding. The resources have been trialled in schools and are freely available.  They are designed to enable students to think about real problems using mathematics.  Many of the resources start by engaging the students in giving an initial opinion and then encourage them to think more deeply and to evaluate their initial thoughts.

To access the Critical Maths resources on the Integral website, please click the button below:

To read more about the project visit Critical Maths or contact Terry Dawson.

Mapping to All Core Mathematics Qualifications

Using the table below MEI has tried to show how the DfE funded resources, produced as part of the project to develop the ideas expressed in Professor Sir Timothy Gowers' weblog, relate to the content of the new Core Maths qualifications.

Where the specification has a particular system for referencing the content of the course, we have used these codes to identify the statements applicable to each resource. For example "see section C3 item C3.2, S7 item S7.2",  "IQRs1, and CMs6, 7, 10".

In specifications that don't use a system we have attempted to reference the statements using methods such as ; "see section 6, content under the heading probability and risk"  or, "Probability : Understanding that empirical unbiased samples tend towards theoretical probability distributions, with increasing sample size" .

Some of the Critical Maths resources may provide partial coverage of the identified statement. For example consider the statement "calculating and interpreting conditional probabilities through representation using expected frequencies with contingency tables, tree diagrams and Venn diagrams", the identified Critical Maths resource covers conditional probabilities as described using tree diagrams only, further examples will be required to cover all of the statement.