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The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice. More information on many of our other activities can be found here .

On this website you will find thousands of our free mathematics enrichment materials (problems, articles and games) for teachers and learners from ages 5 to 19 years. All the resources are designed to develop subject knowledge, problem-solving and mathematical thinking skills. The website is updated with new material on the first day of every month.

For guidance on how to find the right resources for you, go to the Help section of the site.

This month
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This month's mathematical theme is Interpreting and Evaluating: Our new problems involve aspects of the process of interpreting the information in a question and examining in various ways the solution or methods used to get the solution. For example, are the assumptions and arguments made correct or appropriate? How does the solution relate to the initial problem? Can we make sense of someone else's finding? Can we compare strategies used? The 'Notes' accompanying each problem are there to help give teachers an insight into how 'Interpreting and Evaluating' might happen in the classroom and lead to rich mathematical activity and discussion. A list of the themes of previous issues can be found here .

In particular:
Last year we were able to work on an interesting project with four classroom teachers using funding from the Rothschild foundation. You can read the report from the first of our 'teacher fellows' here .

News update

We are pleased to announce the arrival of a new NRICH team member: Alison Kiddle has just joined us from teaching in secondary schools and will mainly work on developing the Stage 4 aspects of the NRICH project.

More news here.

Finally, we would like to wish you all a very happy new year 2009.


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