elcome to the March 2012 Mathsticks newsletter.
The mathsticks maths resource site has continued to grow in a number of different directions. We have uploaded dozens of new maths games, resources and teachign ideas. The site has also received more fantastic accolades, and all of your feedback is very much appreciated. Thank you.
If you haven’t been back to the site for a while you may have missed some recent changes and new resources, such as:
Mental Monday’s
A coninuing series of Mental and Oral starter ideas for Primary classrooms (or for homeschoolers looking for inspring, different approaches to help their children practice mental maths skills).
Checkout our series of Mental & Oral Starters
Blog
Our new Blog is up and running – yes, this is it. But even with this in place we aren’t standing still, we have plans for a major overhaul of the Blog over Easter, and we are actively looking for contributors to help with this. Find out more: Mathsticks Needs You!
Resources
We have added a number of maths games and teaching resources, here is a small selection of our most recent additions:
Maths Resources for Early Years / Key Stage 1
Coin Recognition Bingo - coins and stamps get together in this really attractive resource. We thought, “why should maths resources always be simple grey boxes? Let’s put a little life, colour and energy into them“, take a look at what we did with that idea!
Circle Bonds – a bit of lateral thinking means we can take a ’round’ look at cuisenaire rod. A useful and versatile resource that may support specific children with a range of early calculation skills.
Donkey – a Number Bond Game – an adaptation of a familiar card game, we’ve replaced the ‘Donkey’ (or the ‘Old Maid’, if you prefer) with a number… can your children identify it while they are playing the game?
Maths Resources for Key Stage 2
Multiples Game – nice and straightforward, this one does just what it says; plenty of practice for multiplication skills… but everyone thinks they are ‘just playing a game’!
8 Simple Number Lines – a generous, versatile collection of simple number lines. Take a look at them, see how they can help help you to develop teaching and learning with your children.
Make 50 – we continued our highly popular “Make it” resources, by adding number bonds to 50… this one will make everyone think.
Mathsticks Statistics
Registered Members: 8972 (as of March 1st 2012)
Most Popular Resource: Cover Up – an Addition Game, 1268 downloads
Support Us…
If you have ever used a Mathsticks resource or teaching idea there are a couple of ways you can support us:
- Tell your friends and colleagues about mathsicks.com
- You can use our ‘Tell a Friend‘ service, or send them a referral link (find out more here).
- Blog about us.
- Link to us from your school or home website.
- Tweet about us.
- Like us on FaceBook.
- Pin us on pintrest.com
- Send us some Google +1 love.
Finally, just one last reminder…we are looking for teachers, home-schoolers and/or teaching bloggers to contribute to your mathsicks blog – find out more about this here: calling all members.
Thank you, your continued feedback, comments and support are always very much appreciated.
John
