Sumthing Else

Choose your route into mathematics

Beyond Curriculum

Explore patterns, graphs, counting puzzles and surprising mathematical ideas beyond the usual syllabus.

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Unstuck

Find a clearer route through core maths, with visual lessons and activities for Times Tables and Fractions.

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Practice Lab

Practise Times Tables, Fractions, or mix both. Revisit skills and build confidence.

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A different way to teach and learn mathematics.

Build understanding, not just procedures. Explore interesting mathematics beyond the usual syllabus, or take a different route through the topics that haven’t clicked yet. Free maths enrichment and home education resources for curious learners, families and independent study.

The idea behind Sumthing Else

Mathematics should be more than procedures to memorise.

We want learners to understand why things work, notice patterns, make connections, ask questions and develop the confidence to approach unfamiliar problems.

Some of our resources travel beyond the standard curriculum, exploring beautiful or surprising mathematical ideas. Others take familiar school topics and approach them differently — slowing things down, rebuilding understanding and helping learners become unstuck.

New in Unstuck · Fractions
Fractions is now live.Visual lessons, parent/tutor guidance, a self-guided returning-to-maths route, and adaptive Practice Lab questions.
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Free learning

Clear lessons, puzzles and activities that anyone can explore online.

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Think differently

Develop understanding through patterns, questions, visual ideas and alternative approaches.

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Go deeper

Move from accessible starting points towards genuinely interesting mathematics.

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Learn your way

Designed for curious learners, home-educating families and independent study.

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