At Eleanor Palmer School in north London, headteacher Kate Frood and her enthusiastic staff have created some absorbing activities to engage their primary pupils with maths, and share three of their best ideas - good solid maths learning cleverly interwoven with some traditional fun and games. Year 5 create factor bugs to help them understand factors, prime and square numbers. Year 3 discover that by writing down different times tables, underlining the last digits and joining them up around a circle results in some very interesting patterns. They also see a relationship between the different times tables. Year 5 use a counting stick to help them improve their multiplication skills. It's a simple but effective tool which helps embed numerical understanding.

Video Series: Great Lesson Ideas
Release Date 2009