The Maths Pack Series - Winner of a BETT Awards - Best Educational Software – Primary.

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Judges' comments:

          "A set of lively maths activities designed for use on a large monitor, projector screen or interactive whiteboard. Each activity deals with a single idea. These activities are consistently clear, colourful and truly interactive, and form part of a larger set. Much more software should be this easy to use. This shows that it's possible to make good primary school activities without bunnies and tortoises."

Teacher who nominated the product:

          "While many computer resources are fiddly and tricky to use, this one is easy, big, bold and very intuitive. I like it because there's a range of activities right across upper and lower primary, covering much of the maths curriculum. It has saved hours of photocopying and making transparencies. Many are open ended enough to use with Year 1 and Year 6."

          "I mainly use them to introduce a concept and in the mental and oral starter of a maths lesson. I use an interactive whiteboard but other teachers use them equally effectively without one. A favourite of mine does tally charts and generates examples to test the class. Another calculates fractions as you colour in segments of a rectangle. It's soon very obvious that this is the work of someone who knows what goes on in the classroom and realises what's needed."

          "Just today a colleague used 'Angles' saying it was wonderful because she could show the protractor clearly on screen. She said it was the first time she's managed to teach this and have the whole class understand."

Andrew Harris, ICT Coordinator
The Deans Primary School