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It's a very exciting time for everyone involved in teaching mathematics. ACME's long awaited report 'Professional learning for all teachers of mathematics' was published at the end of 2016. NRICH welcomes its call for all teachers of mathematics to have a personalised professional development plan. If your school is interested in exploring professional development opportunities with NRICH, please contact [log in to unmask] And, to help your colleagues identify their professional development needs in mathematics, you can download ACME's free professional planning tool here.

The new year has also seen mathematics hit the news headlines. The announcement that the UK government is hoping to launch specialist maths schools in towns and cities across the country has put maths teaching right at the top of the news agenda. At NRICH, we're delighted to be able to offer all schools our free curriculum maps which match NRICH's rich mathematical resources with your teaching curriculum. These curriculum maps support schools to embed problem-solving in their daily mathematics teaching. We hope that every school can nurture young mathematicians so we're also continuing to develop our NRICH Ambassadors programme which aims to ensure that every school can draw upon local support to maximise the potential of our rich mathematical resources.

Ems Lord
Director of NRICH

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22nd February - London Mathematical Society - Fractions Unpacked
For primary mathematics teachers and subject leaders. http://nrich.maths.org/12854

23rd February - Manchester/North West Maths Hub - Leadership programme

23rd February - Matrix Maths Hub

27th February - Barnsley TSA Teaching and Learning Festival

28th February - Peterborough LEA NQT day

3rd-4th March - Conference on Mathematical Resilience, The Open University. http://www.mathematicalresilience.org

3rd-5th March - Moreton-in-Marsh - NAMA Conference

9th March - Bristol Primary Subject Leaders day

13th March - Havering Maths Conference

14th March - Shropshire Schools Maths Conference

15th March - Hendon - AMET Conference

18th March - Cardiff/Swansea/Wrexham/Bangor STEP FMSP event

21st March - Cambridge - Teacher Inspiration Day Two

22nd March - Ireland – Maths Week

24th March - Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge – NQT day. http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/events/conferences/nqtppd/

25th March - Cambridge Science Festival. http://www.sciencefestival.cam.ac.uk/

25th March - University of Cambridge – LMS Women in Mathematics Day

7-9th April - Royal Holloway University, London - MA Conference http://www.m-a.org.uk/annual-conference

10th-13th April - Stratford-upon-Avon - ATM Conference http://www.atm.org.uk/Maths-teacher-conference

Enthusiastic school-aged mathematicians (age 16+) from across Europe are invited to immerse themselves in mathematics for six weeks this summer, at the residential PROMYS Europe programme at the University of Oxford. For more information about the programme and about how to apply, please see here.

Where would the world be without mathematics?

From computer games to smart phones, and from the weather forecast to our solar system — mathematics is essential in describing and understanding the world around us. Have your students ever wondered what the world would be like without mathematics?

Mathematics has been part of human culture for millennia. This competition is your students' chance to explore how mathematics has developed and achieved its status. Where does mathematics come from? How do we know it’s true? What is the contribution of a particular person or culture?

The British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM) believes that understanding where mathematics comes from and who has contributed to the development of mathematical ideas is an important part of understanding mathematics today. BSHM, working with PLUS magazine, invites secondary school students to explore this question and communicate their findings for a wide audience (age 16 upwards).

They could write an article (maximum 1500 words), make a short video (maximum ten minutes) or a multi-media project (maximum ten minutes).

The competition is open to all young people aged 11 to 19 who are in secondary education. A prize of £100 will be awarded for the best entrant in each of the age categories 11-15 and 16-19. Winners will be announced on http://bshm.ac.uk/plus by 27th May 2017.

The deadline for entries is Thursday 24 March 2016. Entries should be submitted electronically using the form which can be downloaded from http://bshm.ac.uk/plus.

Our latest Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) activity is called The Box Game and involves counting, adding and subtracting using toys in a box. You can find it in the ‘Recently Published’ section of the EYFS homepage.

We are delighted to share our revamped fractions feature for primary teachers, Fractions Unpacked. We have expanded the feature so that it now includes two groups of tasks. The first group gives you some starting points to explore with your class, which are applicable to a wide range of ages. The tasks in this first group will build on children’s current understanding of fractions and will help them get to grips with the concept of the part-whole relationship. The second group of tasks focuses on the progression of ideas associated with fractions, through a problem-solving lens. So, the tasks in this second group are curriculum-linked but crucially also offer opportunities for learners to develop their problem-solving and reasoning skills. Do take a look at the accompanying article too, which discusses each group of tasks in turn and explains why each particular task has been selected.

Why not book on our linked PD day to support you in developing fractions in your school, see details below?

Our latest feature for Secondary Teachers, Curiously Quadratic, offers a selection of rich problems on quadratics. We hope to stimulate students' curiosity ​as we invite them to explain and justify their conjectures using algebraic and diagrammatic representations.

Don't forget to check out the Recently Solved Problems to see if your students' solutions to our recent features have been published.

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Have you seen our new Secondary Mapping Document? It contains links to our favourite secondary problems, mapped to each curriculum area, and offers an easy way to populate your scheme of work with resources that will challenge your students to think mathematically.

The updated version draws on the new National Curriculum for England, but we have written it in a way that we hope will be useful to you, wherever in the world you teach.

London Mathematical Society, Wednesday 22 February 2017
Fractions Unpacked

There are still places available on this engaging and stimulating day for all primary teachers of mathematics as well as primary mathematics subject leaders. It is part of the NRICH Leading Learning: Inspiring Learners series. This day is suitable for those who have attended earlier days and also stands alone for those who are new to the series.

We will explore some of the underlying concepts associated with fractions, the progression of the topic throughout the primary curriculum, teaching opportunities presented by the most recent KS1 and 2 statutory assessments and ways of developing group-working skills in the context of fractions, decimals and percentages.

More details, including how to book one of a limited number of places, can be found at here.

The first day of our NRICH Ambassadors programme was a huge success! We throughly enjoyed meeting teachers from the Cambridge and Archimedes Maths Hubs who will be working in their professional communities to support the use of rich problem solving resources in as many primary and secondary classrooms as possible. There were prizes for creative mathematics, plenty of discussion about ways of networking and as you’d expect lots of exploration of NRICH problems and how best to embed them in curriculum planning. An over view of the day can be found here.

We look forward to welcoming the team back next on the 23rd March to hear how their work has been progressing. In the mean time, please do contact the Cambridge or Archimedes Maths Hubs if your school is within their area and you would like to find out more about working with any of the NRICH Ambassadors in your setting.