These technical briefs focus on ways to transport goods and people in a relatively low cost way. This is important to people in the...

This booklet contains a range of suggested teaching activities and contexts for teaching about transport in animals at A level. Curriculum links include surface area to volume ratio, circulatory system, heart, blood vessles, cardiac cycle, oxygen dissociation curves, ECG,  and blood flow rates....

A set of ideas and resources for teaching about transpiration and transport in plants at A level, along with some common difficulties which students have on this topic in exams.

Activities include The weirdness of plants, which gives ideas for raising students’ curiosity about how plants live...

The cost of transportation is a key factor for many industries. This activity features a classic transportation problem giving the outputs of two suppliers, the demands of two consumers and the associated transportation costs. Students are asked to find the minimum transportation cost to meet the demand. Students...

This STEMNET resource describes the background and career of transportation planner, and STEM Ambassador, Dan Cornelius.

Dan's role is to assess road schemes and their impacts on local and regional areas. He develops graphic models of the situation and location. This allows him to manipulate elements, such...

A Catalyst article about increased levels of carbon dioxide causing global warming. The atmosphere is being polluted when fossil fuels such as petrol are burnt releasing carbon dioxide. Despite concern about global warming, it seems nobody wants to use their cars less. The article looks at what can be done to...

This interactive excel program covers distance/time and velocity/time graphs.

The first interactive sheet shows a distance/time graph made of line segments and some questions relating to speed for each segment and the...

This interactive excel program covers distance/time and velocity/time graphs.

The first interactive sheet shows a distance/time graph made of line segments and some questions relating to speed for each segment and the...

A Catalyst article about wood as a renewable source of energy. Wood and biomass products could be used to generate electricity in the UK, and the article looks at the advantages and disadvantages of doing this and the technologies such energy generation would require.

This article is from Catalyst: GCSE...

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

A triangle can have more than one centre and this presentation demonstrates the application of vectors, in three different situations, to show that the circumcentre, the centroid and the orthocentre of a triangle are indeed...

In this resource the side lengths of a triangle are given. The challenge is to find the ratio of the product of each of the tangents, divided by the sum of each of the tangents.

Each student worksheet contains a different triangle, but the answers all have something in common.

The solution involves...

Produced by the Spode Group as part of the A-level mathematics support series, this booklet aims to show the practical importance of trigonometric functions. The booklet contains five case studies.

Cylindrical oil container covers applications of sine, cosine and tangent

Pipes...

This resource contains two interactive excel files dealing with the graphs of trigonometric functions.

Trigonometry: X=cos, Y=sin...

This short task contains two questions on applying trigonometry.

The topics covered are:

• Linking sine, cosine and tangent
• Using Pythagoras to determine a length in a triangle and then give the tangent of an angle in surd form
• Using the Pythagorean identity sin2(x) + cos2(x) = 1...