As the saying goes: “every day is a school day” and last weekend at a meeting of the Teaching Committee of the Mathematical Association (the MA!) I found out about the primary maths challenge which is aimed at students in years 5 and 6. It is held every November with bonus rounds usually in the January/February and looks like this could be a good idea for secondary schools to introduce to their feeder schools (with the secondary school funding it as it isn’t that expensive!).
I’m certainly going to be asking if this is something we can do for/with our primary schools.
Have a gander – Primary Maths Challenge
Mel, the resources are really good – my Y10 top set battled the cross number…I didn’t tell them until they were 20 minutes in that it’s aimed at Primary student! 🙂
I’m gonna try that this week too.
Hi Mel,
We have used this with year 7 as something a bit different towards the end of the year.
The normal junior maths challenge questions have also been used in normal lessons as good problem solving questions
I’d never heard of it before last weekend … A great idea for year 7s.