A group of teachers were keen to embed rich tasks from the NRICH
website http://nrich.maths.org into their curriculum for all KS3
and KS4 students. In this article, the teachers share the issues
they needed to consider and what they are doing to address them.
The catalysts for change were our desire to: These changes took
some of us, and our colleagues, out of our comfort zone as we
adapted the way in which we worked in our classrooms and tried
out different roles for ourselves and our We needed to take into
account the different needs of individual teachers in our
schools and their students as they began to use In order to
improve BOTH teachers' and students' abilities to work on the
rich tasks, it was necessary to take account of, and find ways
of supporting: The challenges involved in learning mathematics
through rich The use of a range of lesson structures The use of
effective questioning to promote thinking In what follows, we
have identified some problems from the NRICH website, closely
linked to the cu