What a mental adventure mathematicians have! Questioning, visualising, exploring, reasoning, justifying, thinking, questioning, problem-solving, representing and modelling! These are all aspects of thinking mathematically. Click on this link for more information and examples from nrich maths.

This nrich site (a star favourite in our blogroll) offers some excellent practical mathematical problem-solving with a sporting focus. These activities are based on maths normally encountered while studying at A-level in the UK (ages 16 to 18). These types of questions are really important for our growing mathematicians.

Which lead to a post on Square Numbers. These are numbers which are the squares of 2,3,4,5, etc. Therefore, the set of square numbers will be; 4,9,16,25,36, etc. Which can lead to some interesting discoveries… Click the pic above to investigate this idea and click here for more number ideas and links from this excellent maths […]