The Nuffield Physical Science course featured two types of options. These introduced an element of choice for students and teachers.

General options The general options were introduced into the course to meet the needs of students planning to progress to higher education in specialist areas...

This Nuffield Physics Background Book on astronomy uses a narrative to guide the reader through the development of theory in astronomy, from early ideas and Greek astronomy, through to the work of Kepler and Newton. Many hand-drawn diagrams are used to illustrate the concepts and suggestions for student activities...

The Nuffield Foundation set up the Nuffield Science in Practice project in 1991 to innovate in the field of vocational science education. Just as work started, the government announced that the National Council of Vocational Qualifications (NCVQ) would be setting up a...

The Advanced GNVQ was a two-year, post-16 qualification. Originally it consisted of eight mandatory (compulsory) units, four optional units and three units of core skills. This level was for students who had achieved four or more GCSEs at grade C or above. The Advanced GNVQ was considered equivalent to two A level...

Nuffield Working with Science was developed in the 1970s to meet the needs of ‘the new sixth former’ in schools and colleges. The programme offered teachers a variety of resources as a basis for courses aimed at students staying on in education after the age of 16 for a...

This resource links to a series of resources for Level 3 statistics developed by the Nuffield Foundation.

They deal with probability and hypothesis testing in a variety of different areas, making use of proportion, significance test, null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, normal distribution, mean,...

Understanding data is vital for studying any science. These articles are especially relevant for any biological science. Get ahead with statistical understanding using these resources and learn how to summarise data, see whether figures are significant and put findings into context, so you can make decisions based...

This resource contains a number of articles explaining how statistics help us understand the world.

Investigating fingerprint types

Another great resource from the Computing at School community which is suitable as a consolidation activity for small groups, designed to consolidate learning regarding converting positive integers between the binary, denary and hexadecimal number...

This collection of resources is produced by the Core Maths Support Programme to support the implementation of Core Maths. The collection contains a range of activities all designed to enable students to use and apply mathematics in unfamiliar contexts.

This Catalyst article looks at the work of field ecologists, discussing how ecological studies require the gathering and processing of large amounts of data. This article looks at how ant populations are studied in the field and how their study can produce information about the way living organisms exist in the...

This STEM Learning...

Mathcentre provide this numeracy refresher resource, which was developed and trialled by staff of the University of Birmingham Careers Centre and subsequently used widely throughout the HE Sector. There are sections which review decimals, fractions, averages, percentages and ratios, making it a useful resource for...

This resource contains two excel programs with interactive spreadsheets dealing with linear inequalities in one or two variables.

Trial and...