MathsAlive

New purchase options for MathsAlive now available

Now it is even easier for you to enjoy the benefits of MathsAlive.  MathsAlive provides a vast range of over 2000 interactive resources that cover the core, support and extension objectives for the Key Stage 3 Framework for Maths.

Taking on board customer feedback, you can now purchase MathsAlive as a complete Key Stage 3 solution, or in three separate year group Content Packs.  You can choose this option to build up your MathsAlive resources as experience and confidence grows - choose from Year 7, Year 8 or Year 9 Content Packs

MathsAlive is an award-winning programme which is proven to be stimulating, motivating and engaging for both teachers and pupils.  

"After a few short weeks, using exclusively the materials available in MathsAlive, pupils who would normally have put as much distance as possible between themselves and the Maths Department were giving up their breaks to continue working with the package and, without realising it, improving their numeracy skills."  Gordon Smart, Stranraer Academy

"100% of teachers say that their teaching has benefited from MathsAlive, and they are enthusiastic about the benefits of teaching with new technologies."  Becta

"It's good to know RM are producing materials that the students and teachers want. Kaleidos, combined with MathsAlive, sounds like the first step towards combining the software we need for day to day use and the 'out of hours learning' software we need."  James Jackson, Head of Maths. Glebelands School

Specifically designed to support your delivery of the Key Stage 3 Framework for teaching Mathematics, MathsAlive uses interactive classroom technology to transform the learning process for pupils, and shifts the focus for you from administration tasks to considering how best to achieve learning outcomes. Independent evaluations show that MathsAlive has already been proven to increase pupil involvement and motivation, provide effective support for teachers and lead to raised attainment.

"It's probably the best initiative I've seen in Maths since I started teaching 20 years ago."  Ken Franklin, formerly Head of Maths, Sir Charles Lucas School, Essex.

"MathsAlive is great because it makes Maths interesting, more exciting and keeps you thinking about what you've learnt. I was in set 3 and now I've gone up to set 2 since using MathsAlive, it made learning more fun for me and so I worked harder."  Year 8 pupil, Lady Manners School, Derbyshire.

Call 08450 700300 to arrange your free, no obligation demonstration. Our knowledgeable staff will come to your school and demonstrate how MathsAlive can really make a difference to the Teaching and Learning within your Maths Department. To arrange this, simply call 08450 700 300.

MathsAlive can support your school by:

Personalised learning for all:  MathsAlive accommodates a variety of learning styles (visual, kinesthetic and aural) through the variety of and style of activities and resources it contains.

Motivated and engaged pupils leading to raised attainment levels:  MathsAlive contains over 2000 activities which include mental oral starters; interactive whole-class teaching activities; group/individual work; consolidation exercises; investigations; games; videos and worksheets. Putting Maths concepts into context through this variety of activities allows pupils to visualise concepts and are able to 'touch the Maths'. In cases where teachers have compared parallel classes, MathsAlive pupils have scored consistently higher on end-of-year tests. Some pupils have gone up by as much as two levels over a period of two terms.

Reducing workload: Teachers can save time when planning and preparing lessons by drawing from the vast bank of resources available within MathsAlive. Alternatively staff can import external resources or ones that have been created by colleagues.

Increased confidence and consistency across the Maths department: MathsAlive changes the focus from doing administrative tasks into considering how best to achieve learning outcomes. MathsAlive can be especially important in areas where there are issues around teacher recruitment and retention - many teachers have said they would not want to move to another school without MathsAlive and some schools have successfully recruited more staff because of MathsAlive. The design of MathsAlive activity notes, together with the in-depth educational training also supports non-specialist teachers in the classroom.

MathsAlive is powerful in engaging and motivating pupils and teachers.  It provides you with flexible tools that reflect different teaching and learning styles, allowing teachers to focus on how best to achieve the desired learning outcomes. Training and ongoing educational support are provided as an integral part of MathsAlive, to develop and share good practice and optimise your use of the service.  MathsAlive makes use of the latest technology, including interactive whiteboards, Tablet PCs, Classpads, GyroMouse and specialist software.

MathsAlive content is powered by RM's powerful content management system: Kaleidos VTLE. It includes:

• A flexible planning tool that lets teachers create their own schemes
• The ability to integrate MathsAlive activities, together with other software, websites and those resources created by teachers
• A system designed specifically for planning and teaching, with a search facility that will quickly help you find relevant activities 
• An integrated markbook
• A student site that allows pupils to access from home
• Creating and setting Tasks and Tests to Students

Key features of MathsAlive include:

• A complete scheme of work for Key Stage 3 Maths that is mapped to the Framework objectives.
• Flexible integrated tools, including: Easiteach Studio and Easiteach Maths Tools and The Geometer's Sketchpad.  These can be used to alter and generate lesson content - giving teachers the ultimate flexibility.
• Over 2000 pre-written individual content items, tagged to the KS3 Framework objectives, including: interactive multimedia introductions, mental/oral challenges and whole-class teaching activities.
• A wide variety of group and individual activities, including web-based resources, worksheets, context-setting videos, investigations and games.
• A complete set of default lessons, that may be used to support non-specialists in meeting the framework objectives.
• Paper-based homework and assessment activities.
• Kaleidos VTLE management tool to enable anytime, anywhere lesson planning.
• Extensive paper based guides, to aid planning and implementing MathsAlive.
• Paper based with (CD ROM copies) of unit by unit worksheets, which can be photocopied.
• A range of guides designed to pull on the experience of over 450 schools using MathsAlive, to help new uses get the most of it.

Minimum system requirements for MathsAlive Powered by Kaleidos are:

What technology will your school need to consider?

Whiteboards - we recommend that you purchase an interactive whiteboard such as the RM ClassBoard, and that the board is wall-mounted. Otherwise general classroom activity may mean that board needs to be aligned frequently.

Projectors - digital keystone projection, ceiling mounted, 1,000 lumens, SVGA (800 x 600 resolution only).

Teacher computer - required to drive the whiteboard and lesson content. This could be a PC or laptop. Laptops work very well logistically as they provide the additional flexibility to plan and prepare lessons from home.

Classroom computers - for pupils to access individual/group work. The number of stations will depend upon space/available network ports, however we recommend three to five stations.

Network considerations - vanilla NT4, vanilla Windows 2000, RM Connect 2.4, Community Connect® 3 and vanilla XP networks are all supported (NB Windows 95 or 98 Gold are not supported on any network).