School Workshops
Primary Maths Workshops
To date, over half a million children and young people in primary and secondary schools across the UK (and beyond!) have taken part in one of our Creative Maths workshops!
Our downloadable Maths teaching resource packages have recently been shortlisted for both a Teach Primary and Bett Award in the STEM category!
Workshops
New! CSI: Maths Mansion
Shock, horror – the Mona Lisa (the world’s most mathematical painting) has been stolen! And the Art Detective Agency’s Inspectrice Aquarelle needs your pupils’ help to unravel a baffling mystery.
Maths Around the World – Teaching Resource
Phileas Fogg has pledged to travel around the world in just eighty days – but he needs your pupils’ help with the calculations!
CSI: Maths
A series of challenging mysteries to engage your students and get them thinking logically.
The Pirate’s Challenge!
One of our most popular maths workshops – allowing up to 60 pupils at a time to have some piratical fun with numbers and shapes!
Wild About Maths
This workshop offers children opportunities to practise a range of age-appropriate mathematical skills and explore the maths of the natural world.
The Benefactor
Money-based maths fun for up to 420 pupils in a single day!
The Race into Space
The search is on for the UK’s next astronaut – and Major Tom wants your pupils’ help in selecting the best person for the job!
Times Tables Trattoria
Times’ Tables Trattoria gives pupils opportunities to use their times tables in context.
Wild About Maths Teaching Resource
This workshop offers children opportunities to practise a range of age-appropriate mathematical skills and explore the maths of the natural world.
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Acclaimed Egyptologist “Dr Colorado Smith” needs your pupils help to solve a 3,000 year old puzzle!
Number Patterns: The Bunker
A fast-paced workshop contextualising sequencing and making connections between maths and other subjects!
Murderous Maths
School Workshops Interactive problem solving for up to 180 pupils (with follow-up workshops for up to four classes,…
The Extraordinary World of Pirates – Pirate Day Teaching Resources
Host your own whole school, cross curriculuar Pirate Day with our wide range of activities exploring the topic of pirates.
Maths: CSI: Christmas Bake Off!
A festive Bake Off turns into a maths mystery, as pupils use fractions, percentages and measurements to catch the culprit.
The Captain’s Conundrum
A pirate-themed whole school maths challenge.
Sensory Maths
Students harness a system of binary questions and handleable resources to explore in concrete ways quantity, dimensions, capacity and texture.
Historical Maths
School Workshop Historical Maths These uniquely cross-curricular programmes see children using a range of age-differentiated mathematical skills to…
Family Maths
Uncover the meaning and importance of the three keystones of the Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
Captain Morgan and the Maths Monster
Using understanding and knowledge of shape to beat a creature from the deep!
Creative Approaches to Maths CPD
Explore a range of proven, highly engaging, creative methodologies for teaching and learning maths!
Maths: The Santa Challenge
With the clock ticking away to Christmas Eve, Santa’s lost the combination to the key that unlocks his sleigh!
Maths: CSI: Christmas Storyland
In Christmas Storyland, Rudolph’s nose can’t shine. Pupils must use data handling, sequencing and numeracy skills to track down the thief!
Outdoor Maths
Outdoor spaces provide wonderful opportunities to explore how numbers and shapes create both the built and natural worlds.
Maths: Christmas Crackers – Teaching Resource Pack
Elton Elf is stranded in New York – and won’t be able to make it back to the North Pole in time without your pupils’ support.
School Testimonials
“I can’t thank you enough for all you did last week. I had so many teachers stopping me and telling me how amazing you were! The children loved every minute and I particularly liked the workshops – great to see the kids engaged, moving and working as a team as well as stretching their mental maths skills.”
“I just wanted to say thank you so much to Chris, the children and all of the staff thought he was absolutely fantastic! The tasks were brilliant fun and everyone was totally engaged (even the children who normally hate maths!). The assembly was perfect as it caught everyone’s attention. It was perfect and just what our school needed.”
“Students thoroughly enjoyed the workshops. Captain Morgan was able to pitch the level correctly for each year group from Nursery right through to Y6. All pupils were stimulated and engaged and had so much fun. The children learnt that learning maths could be fun and they loved working together to solve problems. A fantastic day had by all, both pupils and staff really enjoyed and we are looking forward to booking another one!”
“As part of our Maths week, all KS2 children in the School had the CSI:Maths workshop. The children were buzzing about it all week and realised that Maths can be fun! I would highly recommend it and would not hesitate to use you again in the future”
“Jackson was fantastic!! His back story was flawless and all he children were so engaged.”
“The children had a fabulous time. Jackson was brilliant, very enthusiastic and full of energy. His promotion of maths and times tables was very infectious. Children loved learning about how to save money and how to work out their times tables. Staff were very impressed with the way the workshops were very inclusive and even the SEND children were able to enjoy the activities. A brilliant day from a company I would genuinely recommend.”
National Curriculum Keystones
All of our Primary maths workshops have been carefully designed to both put into context and actively promote the three keystones of the National Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem solving. They are also carefully alligned to support Maths teaching for the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland and the Curriculum for Wales.
Tapping into pupils’ own creativity, our unashamedly fun workshops engage, motivate and, crucially, challenge the children and young people we work with.
Rooted in drama and storytelling
Our maths activity days offer opportunities to practise skills with numbers, shapes and concepts in exciting, imaginative and interactive ways. All are differentiated for age – while some also offer the possibility of differentiating for ability within a single class.
And all, of course, offer you and your colleagues the chance to experience some exciting new methodologies that can immediately and easily be adapted to other contexts.