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A resource which uses graphs, data and ‘problem solving’ activities etc to help develop historical knowledge and understanding through using mathematical challenges.
There is a range of 12 topics including the transatlantic slave trade, Britain in 1851, The Great Powers before WW1. (See below for full list of contents.)
Helps students develop their historical understanding and use of relevant skills, especially gathering information from sources that are not just written.
Activities/numeracy skills covered: Using information to complete charts; as interpreting data from graphs or pie charts, extracting information from tables; basic accounts and shopping activities ,solving problems using multiplication, division etc as well as fractions/ratios, completing data tables by using calculations.
These are used to help develop historical understanding such as relative the cost of living in the 19th century, profits from the slave trade or the composition of 17th century society.
Topics covered: England in the Middle Ages; Martyrs in the English Reformation; James I & VI- problems with money; Emigrating to the American Colonies -getting supplies; England in c1688; Making money from the slave trade; Britain from c1750 to c1900;; Food, diet and prices in the 1840s; Britain in 1851; Britain in the 20th century; How well off were people in the 20th century?; Food prices in WW2;
Ideal for use as a cover lesson or a stand-alone homework (or for resources for ‘school at home’)

Plus a bonus activity -Roman Numerals (calculations using them)