Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural

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.

Religion and Mathematics have been interlinked since the early developments of mathematics some 20,000 years ago, this document provides a timeline linking Religion and Mathematics - Click here

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

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.

Global Gateway is the one-stop shop for international partnerships, where you can find schools from all over the world. The Global Gateway will also help with teaching resources and policy guidance for internationalism in schools.

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