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AMP Practical Explorations
These AMP activities are accessible to all secondary pupils. Around half the activities are abstract investigations and half are practical explorations set in realistic contexts. Suitability for group work, required equipment, key mathematical features, extension opportunities, etc. are touched on in the teachers' notes included in the PDF package for each activity.
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Fashion Entrepreneur
Scheduling jobs in a fashion workshop is the context for this Nuffield exploration. There are six people in the workshop and a series of jobs to be completed in one day.
The key processes which developed include:...
Every Second Counts
In this Nuffield practical exploration students explore how far away they could travel in one hour. Knowledge of the locality and reference to various maps and timetables, possibly via the internet, is essential in planning a route.
...School Holidays
In this Nuffield exploration, students consider what factors might affect the choice of dates for school holidays and use these to determine the holiday dates for an alternative school year.
The key processes...
Reaction times
In this activity from Nuffield, students are asked to develop an experiment to measure and test people's reaction times. They can use any equipment available in the school/classroom, and will need to consider the reliability of their experiment and how any data collected will be analysed and presented.