This resource contains eight instant maths ideas designed to provide the opportunity for students to explore conversion graphs, compare imperial and metric units, estimate everyday measurements and explore the nature of different dimensions. The student resource sheet requires students to convert between different...

This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of directed numbers, from reading directed numbers from a scale to multiplying and dividing directed numbers.

Directed Numbers contains eleven work cards...

This resource written by Shirley Fall has thirteen cards each with a statement about directed numbers and how they lie on a 3 by 3 grid. The rationale is for students to discuss possible options and work towards a solution of which directed number lies in each of the grid cells.

The file named Directed...

This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies asks students to plan the relief aid for a fictitious tsunami along the South American Pacific coast. The project is centred on Concepción, Chile’s second largest urban conurbation. This was the scene of an actual tsunami in 1960, after an earthquake off the Chilean...

This sub-collection of resources from the ‘Graphing Stories’ collection contains situations that give rise to jump discontinuities in graphs.

This collection of short videos have been created by STEM Ambassadors as part of the Discover STEM programme. Each Discover STEM video is presented by a STEM Ambassador, working in industry or university. The videos cover curriculum related topics...

This collection of short videos link to the maths curriculum. Each video has been created by STEM Ambassador as part of the ...

DISCUS consists of eight Excel workbooks and a set of associated photocopiable work cards covering the topics: Descriptive Statistics, Probability, Binomial Distributions, The Poisson Distribution, Continuous Distributions, Sampling, Regression and Hypothesis Testing. The materials are designed to be used off the...

This lesson develops the concept of Pythagoras’ theorem. In particular students will:

• Use the area of right triangles to deduce the areas of other shapes
• Use dissection methods for finding areas
• Organise an investigation to systematically collect data
• Deduce a generalizable...

This is a problem solving lesson, designed to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Select appropriate mathematics to solve a problem
• Compare and evaluate different methods for solving a problem and make generalizations about the appropriateness of different approaches
• ...

This resource from SMILE Mathematics contains 18 activities for discussing data. Each activity includes information on the data, discussion guidance, specific questions, extension questions, possible hypothesis and a vocabulary check list.

The activities are split into six areas at three mathematical levels...

These supplementary materials for discussing data contain full colour versions of the graphs and diagrams for all the activities in the Discussing Data Activity Book. The graphs and diagrams are split into the six areas described in the book .

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Students may have learnt in science lessons about how infectious diseases spread, but may not have considered the dynamics of their spread, and how maths can be used for such analysis. As such, these resources from NRICH provide a cross-curricular activity set, and may be...

This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of displaying data.

Displaying data contains fourteen work cards with a wide variety of activities covering drawing pie charts, drawing pictograms, using...

In this resource from the DfE Standards Unit, students learn to express a part or whole diagram in fractions or percentages, convert a fraction to a percentage (using a calculator), calculate areas of rectangles, triangles, circles and parts of circles and add, subtract and multiply fractions. This session builds...