This mini-pack from the National Strategies contains materials focusing on developing students' understanding of proportionality. It includes an outline of three teaching phases and supporting resources, including supplementary notes, prompts for main activities and a problem bank. This Year Eight unit has been...

This comprehensive pack on handling data from the National strategies was designed to support the teaching in Year Eight. The mini pack contains a sample unit which has been developed through a flexible use of the sample medium-term plans for mathematics. The unit emphasises discussion and interpretation of data...

This set of materials, produced by the Key Stage Three National Strategy, was designed to support schools in organising revision and running booster classes prior to students taking the Key Stage Three National Curriculum tests.

The materials comprise:
1. Guidance on
*Planning for revision...

This unit on geometrical reasoning from the National Strategies aims to make a significant contribution to the development of teaching and learning of geometrical reasoning. It was planned for the end of Year Nine in order to provide an opportunity to draw together students’ existing geometrical knowledge within a...

This unit from the National Strategies is a sequel to the Year Eight multiplicative relationships unit. It provides an opportunity to revise, consolidate and extend ideas introduced in Year Eight and to make links to other mathematical strands, particularly shape and space. Making such links, especially with visual...

This unit from the National Strategies is a precursor to the Year Eight multiplicative relationships unit and the Year Nine sequel on proportional reasoning. Together they provide a sequence of core units across the key stage, addressing crucial concepts linking multiplication, division, fractions, ratio and...

This Cre8ate maths set of survey activities cover estimation and measurement, and engagement is encouraged by introducing a competitive element,. E.g.: Are girls better at estimating than boys? Can boys jump higher than girls? There is scope to perform a variety of investigations on ratios, averages, ranges,...

These resources offer a series of activities to use alongside the six books which have been shortlisted for the Young People’s Book Prize 2022. The activities include investigations and experiments related to various topics, such as materials and structures, biodiversity, micro-organisms, water and food waste as...

These resources offer a series of activities to use alongside the six books which have been shortlisted for the Young People’s Book Prize 2023. The activities include investigations and experiments related to various topics, such as our bodies, viruses and bacteria, invertebrates and space, as well as various...

In this Bowland assessment task, students are required to allocate dormitories at a Youth Hostel for a given number of boys, girls and adults given certain constraints. Suitable methods of displaying the information are to be designed, a systematic method employed in order to check that all the conditions have been...

This resource uses the context of sports people staying healthy for as many days as possible, to look at various pathogens, how they can spread, and how their spread can be reduced.  The concept of 'zero days'  is used to explain why it is important that professional sports people do not become ill, so they can...

In this demonstration of a displacement reaction, a piece of foil in the shape of a Christmas tree is placed in lead nitrate solution. Within a few minutes the tree becomes covered with sparkling crystals of lead.

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens focuses on the importance of water as a precious and finite resource. It explores solutions that increase access to drinkable water including rainwater harvesting, waste water recycling, desalination, stopping leaks, reducing water use and water management. Water is...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens highlights the strain that a growing and ageing population is putting on healthcare systems. It presents solutions, including keeping healthy, personalising medicine, preventing diseases and reducing costs through efficient processes and infrastructure.

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This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens considers the pressure that increased waste, pollution and reduced air quality places on our environment.

From Rubbish to Resource is a design and make project in which students source waste products and make them into something not only useful but also...