Resources by Core Maths
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Northampton Academy
Northampton Academy is a large modern secondary school with over 1400 pupils. This case study deals with the staffing challenges within the maths department including recruiting a non-specialist teacher to deliver Core Maths.
Nuffield: can they tell the difference?
This resource links to a series of resources for Level 3 statistics developed by the Nuffield Foundation.
They deal with probability and hypothesis testing in a variety of different areas, making use of proportion, significance test, null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, normal distribution, mean,...
This collection of resources is produced by the Core Maths Support Programme to support the implementation of Core Maths. The collection contains a range of activities all designed to enable students to use and apply mathematics in unfamiliar contexts.
Olympic medal ranking
This Core Maths task looks at how countries are ranked at the 2012 Olympic Games. Students use Excel to order the data and are asked to comment on whether the ranking is fair. This activity is designed to then lead to a discussion of weighted rankings.
The teachers' notes give...
One million miles
This Core Maths task provides an opportunity for students to create questions based on the idea of someone being awarded a certificate for traveling one million miles with an airline. Students are to decide what information they need to help them answer their questions and then to work out the...
Oxford air temperature
This resource allows students to use a spreadsheet to explore the mean annual temperature of Oxford since 1815.
Investigating a large data set instructs students to find data from a given website and then use moving averages to investigate possible trends.
A brief guide to...
Paper planes
This group task asks students to design, build, evaluate and test paper planes.
The presentation outlines the expected outcomes and also contains teacher notes. It includes a link to a six minute BBC video about the design features involved when making paper planes.
...Parliament Hill School
In this case study Parliament Hill school discusses how Core Maths have proven to be popular with their students- including how it put on an extra group to meet demand and working with other local schools.
Patriotic Design
In this activity students explore the idea of correlation. The resource contains an overview, teacher guidance, data sheet and handouts. The activity provides an introduction to correlation, showing the basis of Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient, but also...
Paul Glaister Interview
At the launch of Core Maths in June 2014 Paul Glaister was quoted as saying:
“Core Maths is the most significant development in post-16 mathematics education in a generation”
Find out about the experiences that led to this view and how Paul has been involved in supporting Core Maths.