Sumthing Else
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.
Explore ideas beyond the standard syllabus
Short, self-contained courses built around interesting mathematical ideas, puzzles and problems — designed for curious learners and independent study.
Discover how simple networks of dots and lines can solve puzzles about bridges, routes, maps and connections.
Learn how to count possibilities cleverly — from tree diagrams and arrangements to combinations and Pascal’s triangle.
Explore tessellations, symmetry, slides, turns and flips, discover patterns in art and nature, and create your own mathematical artwork.
Discover surprising patterns and connections — from Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio to spirals, infinite fractions and other mathematical curiosities.
New mathematical ideas, puzzles and mini-courses are on the way.
Get unstuck from the curriculum.
If school maths has not clicked, more of the same explanation is not always the answer. Unstuck rebuilds important topics from the underlying ideas, develops reliable ways to work things out, and then helps those methods become fluent.
Use the right action for the problem
The aim is not just to learn the topic, but to understand how the learning happens.
Sometimes you need a picture. Sometimes a shortcut. Sometimes retrieval practice. Sometimes you should stop drilling and start using the idea in harder problems.
Times Tables
Times tables are not 100 unrelated facts to memorise. Learn what multiplication means, reduce difficult facts to easier ones, develop ways to reconstruct forgotten answers, and practise multiplication and division together.
Includes interactive visual explanations and a saved-progress multiplication & division practice app.
Start Times Tables →Rebuild familiar curriculum mathematics rather than simply repeating it.