For more ideas and resources see Problem Solving in Mathematics.
Nrich has extensive resources; this collection on Enriching the Secondary Curriculum includes Charlie Gilderdale’s and Alison Kiddle’s article What Are Rich Tasks? Jennifer Piggot has written an article on Integrating Rich Tasks, this includes a complete series of professional development resources designed to support teachers to integrate rich tasks into classroom practice. Their curriculum mapping documents provide a helpful way for teachers to find resources. Also note the Nrich Packages, these include a set of tasks on working systematically and the Nrich poster collection (scroll down to the bottom of the poster collection page to download the collection as a PowerPoint presentation).
The Standards Unit – an outstanding resource – so many excellent activities here for the secondary classroom. Start by reading Improving Learning in Mathematics – Malcolm Swan. The Standards Unit page provides links to all the resources, also some IWB resources.
Factors & Multiples Game – from Craig Barton’s collection
A wonderful collection from Craig Barton including all resources and suggested questions.
Also on Craig Barton’s site – try Something In Common, a set of tasks for Year 7 to Year 13.
Don Steward’s Median blog, so many wonderful problems….
The Nuffield AMP Investigations are designed to teach and assess key mathematical processes. Each task has detailed teacher notes.
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AQA Problem Solving Questions
From AQA comes an outstanding resource, GCSE Mathematics: 90 maths problem solving questions.
Em has a brilliant PowerPoint with all the questions and answers – see it here.
I wrote here on a great starter: ‘Here’s the diagram…what’s the question?‘ this idea can lead to excellent discussion.
For more ideas and resources, see Problem Solving in Mathematics.
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Thanks very much for this Colleen; another OCR resource you might like to look at is the problem solving support pack, produced by the SMP.
http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/83327-problem-solving-support-pack.pdf
Thank you Kevin – that looks great, I have updated the post above. Thank you for making the resources available to all teachers.
Thank you for this list!! My state (Nevada) and school district (Clark County School District) in the United States are among the many that have adopted a sort of national curriculum, which provides richer meaning to the learning that is happening in the classroom. We, as teachers, have been pooling our collective minds, in trainings and conferences as how to create assessments that add rigor to their learning and work, but also add a sense of reality of how mathematics is applied in the real world.
Our school district is planning on implementing a new type of high-stakes assessment. These assessments are leaving the single answer multiple-choice questions and multi-step constructed responses and heading toward various other methods of assessing the students, including multiple answer multiple choice and performance tasks, which, I believe, seem to be equivalent to the “rich tasks” mentioned in the blog above.
With so many examples, it truly opens our eyes as to what a “rich task” is and can allow us to create our own. Thank you again for sharing!
I am glad this is useful Bobby, there are many excellent tasks here.