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"Do you have a favorite number?" asks maths writer Alex Bellos, starting an online survey

"I love patterns, diagrams and pictures. Ask me to record information and it gets plastered over a page in bubbles, a mind map or random boxes. I'm not particularly artistic but I find I like to store information in this way. Even with telephone numbers - I remember the pattern the digits make, not the number itself."

And then goes on to name several favorite numbers or numerical equations

Help your students understand equivalence between fractions, decimals and percentages with this visual number line flash resource. Peg the value to the correct position. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

"π has fascinated mathematicians, engineers and other people for centuries. It is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference (C) to its diameter (d); This also explains why and how this number got its name: the lowercase π was first adopted in 1706 as an abbreviation for this number because it is the first letter of the Greek for "perimeter", specifically of a circle." Introduces a video by Numberphile explaining more about the determination of π

An interesting golf themed maths game where players must click on the correct properties described for the given numbers. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A good flash resource to help your students learn place value. Put beads in the correct places. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

"the three major sections of the manual will be Fluency with Whole Numbers, Fluency with Fractions, and Particular Aspects of Geometry and Measurement. The Fluency with Whole Numbers section is further broken down into subcategories given the wealth of information for this area. The remaining two sections, Fluency with Fractions, and Particular Aspects of Geometry and Measurement are presented only as broad categories because the amount of available information is considerably limited relative to the whole number literature. Finally, two standard protocol interventions are presented as examples of comprehensive, evidence-based mathematics instruction that have been shown effective at increasing mathematics performance according to the Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse."

A simple game to practise place value in maths. Click on the correct number boxes to show a number's value. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A good maths resource for practising numberline skills, including negative numbers. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A good maths game where you need to find the unknown numbers. Good as an introduction to algebra. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A well made flash version of the TV show 'Deal or No Deal' with lot of maths possibilities, such as comparing large numbers, place value or probability. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Easy to Make and Fun Puzzle for students!

Play Tetris along a numberline and use numbers to place your blocks. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

A fun game which practises maths skills, including number bonds to 10 with decimals by driving the monster bus around the town to take little monsters to school. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Review of 1999 book on cosmology demonstrating universal phenomena contingent on six numbers. "Forget those 1,000 things you need to do before you die, the 10 commandments and seven deadly sins. Concentrate instead on six impossible things that, as the White Queen advised Alice, you must try to believe before breakfast. Without them there would be no galaxies of stars, no chemistry, no people, no books and no breakfast."

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Forthcoming July 2011, available for pre-order. a biography of the 13th century Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, better known as Fibonacci, who introduced the Hindu-Arabic system of numbers to the west. "Fibonacci's book Liber Abbaci (The Book of Calculation) was the first to recognize the power of the 10 numerals, and to aim them at the world of commerce."