Celebrating a Century of Primary Science, published by the ASE in 2001, was written as part of the celebration of the centenary of the ASE, although the ASE became active in encouraging primary science only half-way through the century. The book, of 132 pages, in a collection of personal accounts written by those...

This resource contains a set of achievement certificates for you to print out and award to children. Certificates are for many different subject areas including: science,...

This activity uses every day scenarios, as well as the chance of inheriting a genetic disorder, as the context for practicing how to:

* calculate simple probabilities and express them in terms of fractions, decimals...

Aimed at primary level, this pack contains ten activities on the theme of change. The activities cover a mixture of topics including; the weather, erosion, movement, sound, light, dissolving, change of state, colour, growth, microorganisms and design and technology. Designed either for use in class or within a...

This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) illustrates with just one example how the problem solving cycle can be integrated within statistics lessons. The lesson shown is one produced by the RSSCSE...

This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) gives the background of the CensusAtSchool project and various ways that the project can be used in your classroom to help engage and motivate students to learn...

This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) describes the steps needed to both take and use random samples of real data from the CensusAtSchool website. In addition it offers some ideas to allow students...

This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) presents personal experiences from Alan Catley, a teacher and ICT expert. Teaching and learning data handling and statistics makes for a far more meaningful...

This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) describes how to plan an investigation by outlining the main steps a student should go take when doing an investigation: planning, collecting, processing,...

This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) looks at ways to visualise data. In particular how data can be displayed in tables and charts having been retrieved from an online database, particularly the...

This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) addresses how spreadsheet software such as Excel is used to analyse and present data. However, it can appear very easy to analyse data and produce charts and...

Born in London to parents who emigrated from Ghana, Charlotte Armah's scientific work may have very obvious benefits for us all. She leads experiments involving human volunteers to learn whether eating particular foods, especially broccoli, can protect us from diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer....

Check up 1 the first of the guides from Nuffield is complementary to Mathematics Begins to which there are numerous references, it is strongly recommended that this guide is not used independently.

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These resources, from the Nuffield Foundation, follow a previous study which reviewed the available research on how students learn mathematics. Probability is the focus here and this review, published in 2012, was commissioned to explore several aspects of the topic....