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Listed below are a number of websites that you may find useful to visit. 

To visit any of the sites click the website address

http://www.mathsyear2000.org.uk/

A great site for all the family.Website created for Maths Year 2000. Contains events, games, celebrity screensavers, links to a large number of sites and Matrix-a virtual maths museum. Also limericks, poems and facts about numbers.

http://www.nrich.maths.org.uk/

For parents, children and teachers. A free membership site full of puzzles, games, information, articles. Online maths club.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education

http://www.coolmath.com/

Interesting site with good practice material

http://www.educate.org.uk/

http://www.microworlds.com/

Excellent resources for classroom use or home projects.  Roman calculators to kaleidoscopes. 

http://www.eduplace.com/math

American site but useful refresher!

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Discovery Zone, many cross curricula links. Parents section.

http://www.apple.com/uk/education/schools/startower

Some lovely maths and literacy challenges. Takes a while to load as it has a lot of graphic images. Calculations given in vertical format in the sum dispenser.

http://www.basic.skills.co.uk/

 

Information for parents and carers regarding adult education, the Basic Skills Agency and links to school related and family learning projects

http://www.funbrain.com/

American based site. Good parent/child section-uses games such as baseball to motivate practice of skills. Easy to use, age related questions.

http://www.mathsmed.co.uk/

 

Three months supply of maths medicine!

http://www.standards.dfee.gov.uk/numeracy

National Numeracy Strategy documentation

http://www.ambleside.schoolzone.co.uk/ambleweb/numeracy.htm

School and home activities-highly recommended.

http://www.sutton.lincs.sch.uk/zone/tables/tables.html

Times tables quizzes and Penguin Posers

http://www.atschool.co.uk/

A good site but charges a small monthly fee.

http://www.mathstories.com/

American site of word problems based around famous books and characters. Harry Potter included.

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/parents

DfES parents site-useful links to other departments.

http://www.mape.org.uk/

Maths trails to take you all over the world. Foe children, parents, teachers. Useful support, "Helping your child with Maths" an also advice on other curriculum areas.

Whodunnit-beat Sherlock Holmes

http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/res2/res2indx.htm

Useful numeracy resources-selections of number grids and lines, activities etc.

http://www.anglia.co.uk/education/mathsnet

Puzzles, links, games etc.

If you would like to recommend any other sites click here to e-mail the website address directly to Pip Huyton who will arrange for them to be added to this page.