Maths Play

Maths Play Exploring and sharing ways to reunite maths with play. Key ingredients: agency, creativity, joy We are exploring ways to reunite mathematics with play.

We are a growing community of educators who are discovering the positive, playful and empowering nature of mathematics. We provide spaces for educators and students to be creative, draw on their own intuition, experiment, and collaborate. On this page you'll find:
✨ Curiosity and joy: Lessons and activities that spark curiosity and motivate mathematical thinking
✨ Mathematical maths: Emphasis on

patterns, logic and different ways to think about and approach problems
✨ Maths for all: Differentiation techniques that meet all learners where they're at, and extend all learners

with a bit of maths humour and more thrown in.

Enjoy this 25 minute conversation with Dr Maddie Pelz of Grow Into Math as she shares top things to know about mathemati...
10/07/2025

Enjoy this 25 minute conversation with Dr Maddie Pelz of Grow Into Math as she shares top things to know about mathematics the discipline, and about learning maths as well as fascinating and critical aspects of early number development

Parents, guardians, education support and teacher working with young learners — this is for you.

Want a full toolkit to support your child/children/students' mathematical development in positive, playful, powerful and lasting ways? Use the code MATHSPLAY15 for 15% off the Grow Into Math Playbook: growintomath.com/early-math-playbook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpRg9Zhc5eQ

Enjoy this 25 minute conversation with Dr Maddie Pelz who shares top things to know about mathematics the disclipine, and about learning maths as well as fas...

June 28th continues to be a special date as we continue to celebrate the positive, playful and empowering nature of math...
13/06/2025

June 28th continues to be a special date as we continue to celebrate the positive, playful and empowering nature of mathematics, important characteristics that often get lost when "schoolified".

This year, we're marking the occasion by bringing together eight of our most popular resources to make a menu of activities.

Download and explore your free copy here:
https://mathsplay.org/bdomp2025/

Are you a maths teacher, tutor, academic, school leader or family adult interested in playful approaches to maths teachi...
13/05/2025

Are you a maths teacher, tutor, academic, school leader or family adult interested in playful approaches to maths teaching and learning?

Is High St, Thornbury convenient for you at 4:30PM on Thursday 22 May?

If so, consider joining us for an afternoon of Maths Play in the Café! Together we'll explore how explicit teaching integrates with other pedagogies to engage, empower and educate whole learning communities in critical maths ideas, concepts and skills.

Tickets start at $25 and cover the cost of nibbles during our networking time. All proceeds will be donated to Spur Afrika's College 2025 fundraising target.

Learn more and secure your spot today at:
https://events.humanitix.com/maths-art-creativity-may2025-thornbury

First blog post using one anecdote + managing to keep text (and writing time) as short as possible. Feeling kinda chuf...
15/03/2025

First blog post using one anecdote + managing to keep text (and writing time) as short as possible.

Feeling kinda chuffed as it goes against a long history of spending too much time on one piece, trying to cram everything in...

It's about seeing a boring (as I experienced it) concept from high school (which I can't remembering anything about except the triangle) in a completely new way

In case of interest 🛼🔢✨

Alex 📦

PS - Happy International Day of Maths for yesterday! Hopefully you had some enjoyable moments enjoying patterns, shapes, some mathematical art and/or number play.

A photo of this mathematical ARTefact; this one of over 500 more, was staring at me. And I was staring at it thinking WOW-WOW: First: WOW — it’s stunning, and Then: WOW — that’s what Mu…

We asked Professor Amie Albrecht to share a recommended task for celebrating the 2025 International Day of Maths theme, ...
11/03/2025

We asked Professor Amie Albrecht to share a recommended task for celebrating the 2025 International Day of Maths theme, Mathematics, Creativity & Art.

Quarter the Cross is an absolute winner in so many ways!
It's low threshold, high ceiling and is rich incredibly with...
✅ Creative process
✅ Visual models
✅ Mathematical content
✅ Mathematical thinking
✅ Mathematical rigour
✅ Play!

You can learn more and enjoy Amie's explanation of Quarter the Cross here:

Professor Amie Albrecht kindly shared her recommended task for celebrating the 2025 International Day of Maths theme, Mathematics, Creativity & Art. Little did I know when joining the call, as …

"Polygon Portraits" by Alex and Matthew, 2025What do you notice about the different shapes? What do you wonder?Which cha...
10/03/2025

"Polygon Portraits" by Alex and Matthew, 2025

What do you notice about the different shapes? What do you wonder?

Which character do you like most? What name would you give them?

This collaborative artwork was created as part of our celebrations using
👀 maths eyes
🧠 maths brains
📏 lots of measurement
✨ recycled cardboard
✨ coloured paper
✨ leftover acrylic paint from the past
✨ textas/markers/scissors

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