Maths Websites, Books, DVDs & Activities

Maths websites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/maths.shtml

http://www.mrbartonmaths.com

http://nrich.maths.org/secondary-lower

http://www.ambleside.cumbria.sch.uk/index.php?category_id=18

http://www.ima.org.uk/i_love_maths.cfm.html

http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths

http://www.emaths.co.uk/index.php/4-students

https://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy

http://www.gfsmaths.com/index.html

 

Lower School Maths Books:

Counting on Frank, R Clement, Houghton Mifflin, 978 0 395 70393 9
Maths Curse,  J Scieszka & L Smith, Viking, 978 0 670 86194 1

The Moscow Puzzles, 359 Mathematical Recreations, B A Kordemsky, Dover Books, 978 0 486 27078 4

Murderous Maths: Numbers: Hippo, Scholastic, 9780439 981163

Murderous Maths, Hippo, Scholastic, 9780439 011563

The Number Devil, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Granta, 9781862 073913

Maths DVDs:

CGP Maths Tutor, GCSE Maths Videos, Foundation Level, 9 781847 627742

CGP Maths Tutor, GCSE Maths Videos, Higher Level, 9 781847 627759

(Both available from the school shop in the Reception area)

Upper School Maths Books:
The Number My5steries, Marcus du Sautoy, 4^th, 9780007 278626

1089 & All That, David Acheson, Oxford, 9780199 590025

How many Socks make a Pair?  Rob Eastway, JR Books, 9781907 532283

Why do Buses come in Threes?  R Eastway & J Wyndham, Portico, 9781861 058621

An Epic Search for Truth, Logicomix, A Doxiadis & C Papadimitriou, 2009, Bloomsbury, 978-0-7475-9720-9

The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh, 2013, Bloomsbury, 978-1-4088-3530-2 

Adult Maths Books:
Maths for Mums and Dads, R Eastaway & M Askew, 2010, Square Peg, 978-0-224-08635-6

More Maths for Mums and Dads, R Eastaway & M Askew, 2013, Square Peg, 978-0-224-09531-0

The Maths Handbook, R Elwes, Quercus, 978-0-85738-584-0

Maths in Minutes, P Glendinning, Quercus, 978-1-78087-369-5

Thinking in Numbers, D Tammet, Hodder, 978 1 444 73744 8

Mathematics MINUS Fear, Lawrence Potter, Marion Boyars, 9780714 531151

Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos, Penguin, 9780140 122558

The Language of Mathematics, Keith Devlin, Holt, 9780805 072549

The Elephant in the Classroom, Jo Boaler, Souvenir Press, 9780285 638754

It Just Doesn't Add Up, Explaining Dyscalculia and Overcoming Number Problems for Children and Adults, Filament Publishing, 978 1 908691 85 9

Your Teenager, Thinking about your child during the Secondary School Years, M Harris, Karnac Books, 978-1-85575-408-9

The Language of Mathematics (Making the invisible visible), Devlin, 2000, Holt, 978-0-8050-7254-9

Super Crunchers, Ian Ayres, Bantam, 9780553 805406

Thinking Mathematically, J Mason & L Burton & K Stacey, Prentice Hall, 9780273 728917

Fermat’s Last Theorem, Simon Singh, 2005, Harper Perennial, 9-781841-157917 

In Code, S Flannery & D Flannery, 2003, Profile Business, 9-781861-972712

Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes, R Elwes, Quercus, 978-1-78087-160-9

A Mathematician’s Lament, P Lockhart, 2009, Bellevue Literary Press, 978-1-934137-17-8

Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture, A Doxiadis, 2000, Faber& Faber, 978-0-571-20511-9

Turing (A Novel about Computation), C H Papdimitriou, 2005, MIT Press, 978-0-262-66191-1

Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions, E Abbott, 1884, Dover Thrift Editions, 978-0-486-27263-4

 

Maths Activities:

Origami, British Origami Society
http://www.britishorigami.info/society/meetings/london/londonorigami_newsletter/Index.html

Bridge, the card game
http://www.acolbridgeclub.com/

Cooking

Carpentry and building

Music
http://southbanksinfonia.co.uk/events/family-concerts/
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=3949

Lego and construction

Crafts & Beading

Art

www.victorvasarley.com

http://www.camdenartscentre.org/whats-on/view/1415c03