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The following links point to a variety of resources, not catered for by this site, that we have found very useful when teaching mathematics. Please note that we cannot be held responsible for the content of external sites.

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Mangahigh

This is an excellent online maths practice site, with two main innovations: firstly its multiple choice practice questions adjust their difficulty based on your performance, so more able students get challenged and those struggling with a topic get to move on at their own pace. Secondly, it has a set of maths games that manage successfully to be both fun and very good learning resources.

The best part of all of this is that it has now become entirely and permanently free in the UK - there's no good reason not to sign your school up.

NRICH

A collection of puzzles and activities, updated monthly, aimed at higher-attaining students. An active community provide solutions and additional, interesting ideas and concepts. More than 2,500 puzzles, on most topics on the syllabus, means a good chance of finding an appropriate extension or enrichment task.

RevisionBox

A company recently established with the aim of creating comprehensive video revision courses for - eventually - every GCSE course, and perhaps A-level as well some day.

I've been working with RevisionBox to produce the mathematics content, and from what I can gather it is proving to be quite popular amongst the students who have used it.

If you do sign up for the course, or know anyone who uses it, any feedback would be gratefully received: I'd like to continue to work on this and improve it over the coming years.

Wolfram|Alpha

Described by its creators as a 'computational knowledge engine', Wolfram|Alpha is a search engine which, instead of giving websites as results, gives empirical data. Searching for any date will give its history and position in the calendar, for instance; any country will yield population, geographical and economic data; and any equation will, amongst many other things, plot an appropriate graph.

Although Wolfram|Alpha is still in beta, and so may not always return values you had hoped for, it is a project of impressive scope and is already quite useful at giving comprehensive information quickly.

If you can't find exactly what you're looking for on OpenMaths, there are a wealth of other websites offering free resources made by maths teachers. Following are a small sample; if you know of any other similar sites, please let us know.

Please note: in order to make resources easier to find, some of these links point to the website's contents page, rather than its front page.