New activities added to Primary and Secondary MyMaths

Isobel

By Isobel,  16 November 2021.  Posted in What's new

Many MyMaths users have been enjoying our ‘beat the clock’ activity on rounding whole numbers to the nearest ten, hundred or thousand.

Beat the clock activity showing a question on rounding a four-digit integer to the nearest hundred

‘Beat the clock’ activity on rounding whole numbers to the nearest ten, hundred or thousand, available on Primary MyMaths and Secondary MyMaths.

Have you noticed that over the last few months we have added more activities on rounding whole numbers and decimals, as well as many other topics?

Partially completed loop card activity showing a question on rounding a six-digit integer to the nearest hundred

One of the new activities on rounding, available on Primary MyMaths and Secondary MyMaths.

These granular activities can be used front of class or can be completed individually by students for additional practice.

Find them in the Activities section, which you can access from the left-hand menu before you log into the Teacher Dashboard.

Topics of 77 new activities added to Primary MyMaths include:

  • Counting to 10 and 100 and in steps
  • Using place value in whole numbers
  • Rounding whole numbers and decimals
  • Odd, even and prime numbers
  • Addition facts
  • Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000
  • Nets of a cube
  • Translating and reflecting shapes
  • Mean, median, mode and range

Sorting activity showing two boxes labelled ‘odd’ and ‘even’ and pictures of apparatus representing some numbers from 1 to 10

Use this sorting activity to practise recognising odd and even numbers up to 10. Available on Primary MyMaths only

Topics of 68 new activities added to Secondary MyMaths include:

  • Congruent triangles
  • Arcs and sectors
  • Volume and surface area of a sphere
  • Mean, median, mode, range, quartiles and interquartile range
  • Box plots
  • Calculating probabilities
  • Multiplication and division facts
  • Prime numbers and multiples
  • Rounding integers and decimals

Pairs activity showing diagrams of congruent triangles.

Use this pairs activity to practise identifying congruent triangles. Available on Secondary MyMaths only

Angle game returns to MyMaths

In response to teacher feedback, we have released a Flash-free version of our angle game. Find it in the Games area on Primary and Secondary MyMaths.

View of angle game showing target of 283°, drawn angle of 282° and user score of 5 points for that round.

Try to draw the target angle. The closer you are, the more points you score!

Our updates are informed by feedback from our users – if you have any feedback for us, please let us know at (mail@mymaths.co.uk)