This article, from the Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) publication ‘Mathematics Teaching’, is taken from MT217.

Jenni Ingram and Robert Ward-Penny give their thoughts on classrooms today by examining the variety of activities that can be seen in the mathematics classroom. Students are frequently...

This report from Ofsted looks at City and Islington College which is one of the biggest national providers of science in further education. The college has developed a broad range of cutting-edge science provision and established itself as a regional centre of excellence for science.

• The college has...

Oxford Sparks aims to use research at the University of Oxford to enrich science lessons with genuine contexts.   Each video in the collection is accompanied by a set of high-quality teaching resources that provides different angles to teach the topic. 

A full set of resources which can be used to add research based contexts to lessons for 16-19 year olds.

This resource allows students to use a spreadsheet to explore the mean annual temperature of Oxford since 1815. 

Investigating a large data set instructs students to find data from a given website and then use moving averages to investigate possible trends. 

A brief guide to...

A Catalyst article about oxygen and how it is essential for most respiration, which goes on all the time in all live cells all living organisms. The article looks at how organisms get the oxygen they need from their surroundings and how it reaches cells. It also explores how oxygen transport is monitored, which of...

The Nuffield Foundation provides this activity where students suggest types of function to model ozone hole data, before using a graphic calculator or spreadsheet to find at least two particular models. They then consider how well their functions model the data and what they predict for the future. The slideshow...

A multiple choice quiz on the ozone layer AS/A level chemistry.

Although it is written for OCR AS/A level chemistry (Salters) H033/H433 course, it can be edited to suit your scheme of work.

Produced by Becta, these case studies illustrate how information communication technology (ICT) can be used to enhance teaching and learning in science. This case study looks at use of PDAs during an A-level biology field study.

PDAs, also called 'handhelds' or 'palmtop PCs', are relatively cheap and robust...

This excel resource looks at various methods of evaluating pi, including Vièta’s formula and using the trapezium rule.

The first series of sheets include an introduction to François Vièta, his infinite product for...

This optimisation problem is an ideal opportunity to use the real-world context of logistics as an application of first fit, first fit decreasing and full bin algorthims.

In this activity students have to decide how to pack a number of items into the least number of parcels possible, within certain...

This optimisation problem is an ideal opportunity to use the real-world context of logistics as an application of a first fit decreasing algorthim.

In this activity students have to decide how to cut pieces of wood to make a shelving unit using the least number of planks of wood, within certain constraints....