This series of activities from NASA take a mathematical approach to looking at space weather. They are intended as supplementary problems for students looking for additional challenges in mathematics and physical science from age 11 to 19 years.

The problems were created to be authentic glimpses of modern...

Produced by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), these resources are aimed at mathematics practitioners. . Sessions in this resource look at: • Exploring right angles (using technololgy creatively and appropriately) • Shape - describing and visualising angles and lengths (encouraging reasoning rather...

This resource focuses on addition bonds. Four equilateral triangles are joined in a lattice with a circle at each vertex. The numbers 1 to 8 must be placed in the circles in a way that ensures each triangle has numbers where the larger number is the sum of two smaller numbers. The resource is suitable for Key Stage...

This outreach programme aimed to build upon good practice from the Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) project Chemistry for our Future, and to develop new activities which could then be used with the RSC’s Spectroscopy in a Suitcase (SIAS) equipment. It explored appropriate contexts which may appeal to students...

In this activity, students are presented with the question: “Do speed cameras reduce road casualties – or not?”. The activity is set in the context of media reporting to explore ideas of randomness, probability and drawing conclusions from data. A secondary theme is the mathematical modelling of a real situation....

This module from the Nuffield Foundation gives an attempt to relate the gradient of a graph to the rate of displacement of an object which moves with time. This can be summed up in the phrase 'faster is steeper'. The module is in three sections, each of which is based...

Act 1

A torch is pointed in the direction of the moon and...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 8B which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the second half of year 8.

Speed, distance and time covers, the ideas on instantaneous speed and average speed, calculating speed, distance and time, problems involving mixed units, distance - time graphs...

In this Bowland assessment task, students are asked to calculate the average amount of time Santa can spend in each house in the UK on Christmas Eve. Students are presented with facts about the population of the UK and constraints by which Santa must abide. They are then required to make reasonable assumptions and...

This Bowland assessment task requires students to list all the outcomes when the numbers on two spinners are added together and calculate the probability of each outcome. Students analyse three bingo cards to determine which is the most likely to win and are required to design a bingo card which has the best chance...

Archimedes’ Spirals: SMILE card 1998 is a booklet of activities beginning by explaining...

In this Bowland assessment task, students are required to design a sports bag for a sports company. The bag is in the shape of a cylinder. Students draw the net of the bag from the given dimensions and consider how the three pieces of the bag, the main body of the bag and the two circular ends, should be cut from a...

The Nuffield Foundation provide this activity for students to consider the difficulties in using real data, from the Department of Trade and Industry, to identify which sport is the most dangerous to participate in. The data includes the age and gender of patients requiring treatment at a sample of hospitals after...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand using a description to draw the net of a shape.

The task is to draw the net of a sports bag with the following features:

• The length of the bag will be 60 cm.
• The bag will have circular ends of diameter 25 cm.
• The main...