The Diigo Rich Tasks list has many resources for the classroom.
With any Diigo list you can click on the green link to go direct to the website and then back on your browser if you wish to return to the list.
To highlight some of the resources on the list.
Rich Questions – my post on resources which give questions requiring higher order thinking skills.
Nrich has extensive resources. Jennifer Piggot has written an article on Integrating Rich Tasks, this includes a complete series of professional development resources designed to support teachers to integrate rich tasks into classroom practice. Their curriculum mapping documents provide a helpful way for teachers to find resources. Also note the Nrich Packages, these include a set of tasks on working systematically and the Nrich poster collection (scroll down to the bottom of the poster collection page to download the collection as a PowerPoint presentation).
The Nuffield AMP Investigations are designed to teach and assess key mathematical processes. Each task has detailed teacher notes.
New Bowland shorter assessment tasks include worksheets, notes and an optional presentation in three different formats, Word, pdf or PowerPoint.
From AQA comes an outstanding resource which includes numerous problems. The teachers guide includes indices by topic and also by process.
(Direct links to the guide and solutions.)
From OCR see Investigations for GCSE Mathematics, their A03 Guide and an excellent problem solving pack with tasks designed to encourage students to explore different mathematical approaches to a new problem.
Jon Stratford’s Rich Maths Tasks site has extensive resources, note the Key Processes under Pedagogy includes cards to download in pupil speak.
The National Strategies archive includes several problems to develop mathematical processes and applications. Teachers’ notes and all resources are provided.
For older students (16+) try Jonny Griffiths’ RISPS (Rich Starting Points). Note he also has a companion Statistics site and Carom-Maths -activities to bridge the gap between A Level and University
Thanks very much for this Colleen; another OCR resource you might like to look at is the problem solving support pack, produced by the SMP.
http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/83327-problem-solving-support-pack.pdf
Thank you Kevin – that looks great, I have updated the post above. Thank you for making the resources available to all teachers.
Thank you for this list!! My state (Nevada) and school district (Clark County School District) in the United States are among the many that have adopted a sort of national curriculum, which provides richer meaning to the learning that is happening in the classroom. We, as teachers, have been pooling our collective minds, in trainings and conferences as how to create assessments that add rigor to their learning and work, but also add a sense of reality of how mathematics is applied in the real world.
Our school district is planning on implementing a new type of high-stakes assessment. These assessments are leaving the single answer multiple-choice questions and multi-step constructed responses and heading toward various other methods of assessing the students, including multiple answer multiple choice and performance tasks, which, I believe, seem to be equivalent to the “rich tasks” mentioned in the blog above.
With so many examples, it truly opens our eyes as to what a “rich task” is and can allow us to create our own. Thank you again for sharing!
I am glad this is useful Bobby, there are many excellent tasks here.