Encouraging spiritual and moral development are not new as goals of education. Indeed, many teachers would say that they are fundamentally concerned with the education of the "whole child". However, establishing a shared understanding of what this means has proved to be difficult and, consequently, it has not always been seriously addressed by most subject teachers. There has been a feeling that spiritual and moral development properly belongs somewhere other than in a Maths lesson -in RE, say, or in tutor period or assemblies.

Moral and spiritual dimensions should be present in the teaching of mathematics. The Charis Team found three possible approaches to dealing with these dimensions. These approaches overlap and inter-relate and are more than likely not exhaustive.  Click here for a short summary document.

The school curriculum comprises all learning and other experiences that each school provides for its pupils. This includes the National Curriculum, religious education, collective worship, sex education and careers education.

The school curriculum has two aims:

• to provide opportunities for all pupils to learn and achieve          

• to promote pupils' spiritual, moral social and cultural development and prepare all pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life.

Within the school curriculum, the National Curriculum secures for all pupils, irrespective of social background, culture, race, gender, differences in ability and disabilities, an entitlement to a number of areas of learning and to develop knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes necessary for their self-fulfillment and development as active and responsible citizens.
 

Patterns
Rangoli Patterns	Islamic Designs	Islamic Art Islamic Art
Shongo Networks	Tchokwe Sand Patterns	Tamil Threshold Designs
Celtic Knots Celtic Knots
Number Work
Ancient Civilisations	Chinese Triangle (Pascal's)
Arabic Number Square Benjamin Franklin Magic Square Domino Magic Squares	Vedic Maths 1    Spreadsheet Vedic Maths 2 Vedic Art	Digital Roots Digital Root Patterns
Tower of Hanoi Interactive Version	Eqyptian Multiplication	Egyptian Numbers
Egyptian Fractions	Russian Multiplication	Chinese Multiplication
Wages Around the World	Magic Circles	Fraction Flags of the World
Miscellaneous
Strategy Games

Click here for a website with Maths links covering Cultural Issues

Click here for historical information on the development of Mathematics and the Mathematicians who brought about those advances.

Global Dimension is a unique website for teachers. A helpful guide to books, videos, posters and websites which bring a global dimension to teaching.

From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find teaching resources for all age groups and subject areas. Many of them are free, and you can search for resources about particular countries using the data base.

And in the Global Dimension Community you can read other teacher's experiences or views or learn about local support, professional development and school speaker services.

Oxfams Coolplanet website provides a range of resources related to their work

Chalkface produce a book of activities based on a cultures from around the world ISBN: 978 1 86025 512 0  Author: Simon Crivich