This series of interactive excel sheets explore organising and interpreting a range on data in various contexts. New data sets can be generated each time by the click of a button.

The first sheet allows a tally to be...

In this activity students explore the use of mathematics in a disease management context. Students assume the role of scientists attempting to contain the spread of a dangerous virus and are expected to locate infected people, develop a successful antidote and manage a large-scale vaccination programme. Students...

This excel resource looks at various methods of evaluating pi, including Vièta’s formula and using the trapezium rule.

The first series of sheets include an introduction to François Vièta, his infinite product for...

Parabola

This file provides a well illustrated introduction to the properties of a parabola. It begins by illustrating the...

This excel file shows how Pascal's triangle can be used to calculate probabilities. Separate sheets show the possible outcomes when different numbers of coins are tossed. With the smaller number of coins these outcomes are listed.

This excel file begins with finding percentages of amounts without using a calculator. There are various options to allow for different degrees of difficulty of the questions posed. Answers can be revealed and new sets of questions generated.

In this resource from the DfE Standards Unit, students analyse simple number 'tricks', and explain how they work, using algebra. They then try to create their own variants of the trick, making it more impressive. Students will: develop an understanding of linear expressions and equations; make simple conjectures...

This interactive excel file allows students to investigate two-point perspective drawings of some simple shapes. The concept is put into context by a picture of the interior of a French church.

The shapes in the...

The first sheet of this excel file shows a frequency table for up to four different colours. Sometimes the angle 359⁰ or 361⁰ is shown in the table rather than 360⁰ and this can be used to aid discussion about rounding. Students need to calculate the angles so that a...

This selection of spreadsheets, designed by the Primary National Strategies to aid teaching and learning, tackles place value, rounding, estimation, fractions, percentages and decimals, in a variety of ways.

Place value dots shows the visual representation of a chosen number up to 999, in...

This series of interactive excel sheets is aimed at Year Five students and explores place value. New questions can be generated each time by the click of a button. To check the answers click on the smiley face.

The...

This series of interactive excel sheets is aimed at Year Four students and explores place value. New questions can be generated each time by the click of a button. To check the answers click on the smiley face.

The...

This series of interactive excel sheets is aimed at Year Six students and explores place value. New questions can be generated each time by the click of a button. To check the answers click on the smiley face.

The...

In this Nuffield ...