We promote reading in Mathematics by finding opportunities within the curriculum that allow us to explore the history of mathematics as well as areas of real-life. This takes the form of completing literacy comprehension tasks with a half-termly focus where a short extract is followed up by comprehension questions.
The table shows lists of other books, which pupils can also read in their own time:
| Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 |
Year 7 | Guided Reading The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers
David G.Wells
| Guided Reading Think of a Number
Johnny Ball
| Guided Reading Why do Buses come in Threes?
Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham
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Year 8 | Guided Reading The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
HM Enzensberger
| Guided Reading The Code Book
Simon Singh | Guided Reading Uncle Petrie and Gildbach’s Conjecture
Apastolos Daxiadis |
Year 9 | Guided Reading 1081 and all that: A Journey into Mathematics
David Acheson
| Guided Reading Mathematics: The New Golden Age
Keith Devlin
| Guided Reading A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar |
Year 10 | Guided Reading How long is a piece of string?
Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham
| Guided Reading Mathematics: The New Golden Age
Keith Devlin
| Guided Reading
Robert Kaplan |
Year 11 | Guided Reading Fermat’s Last Theorem
Simon Singh
| Guided Reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
| Guided Reading The Music of the Primes
Marcus du Sautoy |