Mathematics Curriculum Resources

Extended reading for challenge (books) 

• Murderous Maths collection – Kjartan Poskitt 

• The Boy Who loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos 

• Blockhead: The life of Fibonacci – Joseph D’Agnese 

• Elastic numbers by Daniel Griller 

• Can you solve my problems? – Alex Bellos 

  Extended reading for challenge (articles) 

• Divisibility tests: https://nrich.maths.org/1308 

• An introduction to magic numbers https://nrich.maths.org/magic-square-intro 

  Extended links (websites or clips) 

• https://www.numberphile.com/ 

  Other 

• Short problems https://nrich.maths.org/11993 

Extended reading for challenge (books) 

• The Math Book – Clifford A Pickover 

• 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know – Tony Crilly 

• A mathematical pandoras box – Brian Bolt 

• Book of curious and interesting mathematics – David Wells 

  Extended reading for challenge (articles) 

• The best card trick https://nrich.maths.org/1479 

• Tournament scheduling https://nrich.maths.org/1443 

Extended links (websites or clips) 

• https://www.numberphile.com/ 

  Other 

• Problem solving https://nrich.maths.org/9196 

Extended reading for challenge (books) 

• Alex’s Adventures in Numberland – Alex Bellos 

• The Monty Hall Problem: Beyond closed Doors – Rob Deaves 

• The Language of Mathematics – Keith Devlin 

• Mathematics, Magic and Mystery – Martin Gardner 

• Why do buses come in threes? – Rob Eastaway 

  Extended reading for challenge (articles) 

• The random world https://nrich.maths.org/5975 

• All about infinity https://nrich.maths.org/2756 

  Extended links (websites or clips) 

• https://www.numberphile.com/ 

Other 

• Problem solving https://nrich.maths.org/9196 

Doing
Visit Bletchley Park, home of ‘The Codebreakers’.
https://bletchleypark.org.uk/

Play strategy games e.g. Poker, Bridge, Chess, Go, Risk, Monopoly and Dominos.

Snowflake, Seashell, Star – a colouring book by Alex Bellos

Enter the Junior Maths Challenge
https://www.ukmt.org.uk/individual-competitions/junior-challenge/

Explore the NRICH website for games, activities, problems and solutions.
https://nrich.maths.org/secondary

Try the puzzles at MathSphere
http://www.mathsphere.co.uk/resources/MathSphereMathsPuzzles.htm

Sign up to Brilliant.org for learning through interactive problem solving
https://brilliant.org

Watching and Listening

A Beautiful Mind (PG-13): After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Tron: Legacy (PG): The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father’s corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.

The Martian (PG-13): An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

October Sky (PG): The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner’s son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father’s wishes.

Donald in Mathmagic Land: Donald Duck goes on an adventure in which it is explained how mathematics can be useful in real life. Through this journey it is shown how numbers are more than graphs and charts, they are geometry, music, and magical living things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvceKeHl0Sg

Reading

Maths Quest: The Museum of Mysteries David Glover
The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Doing
Enter the Intermediate Maths Challenge
https://www.ukmt.org.uk/individual-competitions/intermediate-challenge/

Explore the NRICH website for games, activities, problems and solutions.
https://nrich.maths.org/secondary

Apply for a place on the Kings Maths School programme.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/mathsschool/outreach/for-students/enrichment-for-pupils.aspx

Apply for a place in the Kings Maths Circle
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/mathsschool/outreach/for-students/mathematics-circle.aspx

Watching and Listening
Watch ‘The Code’ by Marcus Du Sautoy
Part 1
Watch ‘The Imitation Game’, a film about Alan Turing.
Watch ‘Moneyball’, about the use of statistical analysis to build a winning team.
Find radio programmes on some mathematical topics on the link below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gyd7j

Reading
A History of the World in 12 Maps –  Jerry Brotton
How to Bake Pi  – Eugenia Cheng
Read ‘Alex’s Adventures in Numberland’ by Alex Bellos
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/nov/09/alex-adventures-numberland-alex-bellos
Read ‘Outliers’ by Malcom Gladwell
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3228917-outliers