Making Fractions is an invaluable professional development handbook for classroom teachers and maths leads. Grounded in contexts such as sharing and measuring, Making Fractions contains a wide range of engaging practical activities that progress gradually from halves and quarters to tenths and hundredths and beyond, to bring fractions and decimals to life. Based on the authors' Nuffield Foundation-funded research project, A guide to the use of practical tasks and manipulatives in the teaching of fractions and decimals with children aged 3 to 11, these practical ideas have been extensively trialed and are easy to implement in the classroom.

Making Numbers shares exemplars of good practice drawing on the latest research on using manipulatives to develop understanding of arithmetic. Focusing initially on the teaching of numbers from 1-12, Making Numbers progresses to 200 and beyond, including ideas for teaching partitioning, arrays, and times tables. Making Numbers was written by experts with decades of experience in primary mathematics education, Professor Rose Griffi ths, Dr. Sue Gifford and Dr. Jenni Back, based on their Nuffield Foundation funded research and development project Using Manipulatives in the Foundations of Arithmetic.