Despite guidance to the contrary, many teachers continue to teach Maths through a 'discrete topic' approach.

So when children are asked by their parents what they have been learning in Maths, they answer that they have been 'learning take-aways' or 'doing fractions'.

Some teachers attempt to link key topics like 'addition' and 'subtraction' together, but pupils still often fail to grasp the deeper links between different areas of Maths and realise that everything is interconnected.

What is needed is a set of activities which reinforce these links at every opportunity.

In the online investigations, the addition/subtraction triangle and multiplication/division triangle are introduced from an early stage and the same triangle concept is used again later when learning about fractions and percentages.

Many of the skill checks and pair games allow children to switch between different views to see how different ideas are linked.

Another persistent theme running through the activities is the sequencing of numbers on the number line. Whole numbers, positive and negative, decimals and fractions can all be investigated in the same way. The idea of things following in sequence is also fundamental when children are learning to tell the time.

"The investigations were very challenging and it made the children think independently and look for patterns, developing their enquiring minds." (Year 5 Co-ordinator, Woodnewton School)