This lesson, linked to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, aims to answer the question 'How often will a heatwave hit the UK?'

Students examine datasets to explore the frequency with which hot events occur and are required to interpret and draw box and whisker plots. Students are...

Produced by the Industrial Trust, Business & Education South Yorkshire and JIVE (Joint Interventions), this leaflet identifies hints and tips to help organisers of visits to industry. Often organisations that are prepared to offer industrial visits to their sites are unaware of the action they can take to make...

Teaching Enquiry with Mysteries Incorporated (TEMI) intends to prepare students for enquiry-based learning by introducing them to challenging and fascinating phenomena. TEMI resources make use of unknown and uncommon observations as mysteries for students to solve.  This resource looks at what makes a good mystery...

Huddersfield New College, is a sixth form college located on the edge of the Pennines.

In the first year of running the Core Maths programme, a strong partnership with the Science Department was established which facilitated the recruitment of students to the programme and high retention rates. This case...

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A hyperbola is given with a parabola ax²  touching each branch of the hyperbola at single points. The task is to determine the value of a.

A formal proof of the general situation involves substituting the equation of the parabola into the equation of the hyperbola. The...

This program begins with graphs of the hyperbola in the form x²/a^...

Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics.

This presentation introduces Euclid's axioms and theorems and provides historic information on the development of geometric principles, as well as discussing hyperbolic geometry. A link to Non-Euclid software, from Joel...

This collection of Nuffield Maths resources explores Hypothesis testing. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level. 

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The activities in this workbook cover the ideas of statistical significance, type I and type II errors and the power of a test. The relationship between power and significance in the context of tests of means is considered and the final spreadsheet shows how to conduct a chi-squared test of association in a...

This resource collection, from the IET Education programme with support from MEI and Tomorrow's Engineers, contains a number of stimulating maths actives that give an insight into the real-life applications of classroom-based mathematics. The resources give students the chance to...

Six mathematical career case studies from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

* Robyn Smith Operational Research

* Ruth Amos Inventor, business owner and trustee

* Zoe Kelson Mathematician and Business Development Manager

* Claire Burke Climate change attribution scientist...

This edition of iSquared magazine features:

The soliton: A w...

This managing bullying in schools document from the Department of Education looks at how Saint Benedict Academy identifies bullying through anonymous email reports. The resource explores the school's 'Hero' email system to identify bullying and other strategies that raise awareness of bullying, as part of the...

Science, technology and mathematics teachers at Tendring Technology College had already collaborated across departments and wanted to develop these links further by adopting a thematic approach to the curriculum. The Key Stage 3 curriculum was reviewed to identify areas to embed a STEM philosophy into the lessons...