GAIM Activities are open-ended tasks where achievements in using and applying mathematics can be assessed alongside content. In the practical problems students apply mathematics to real-life situations.

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These booklets from GAIM contains a cross referencing guide and record sheets for the GAIM activities and investigations.

Part One of the cross-referencing guide includes items from some mathematics teaching schemes...

This resource from GAIM includes the set of Topic Tasks and Topic Criteria, which complete the assessment material for this scheme.

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This resource from GAIM is a teacher assessment scheme, designed for use alongside any existing secondary mathematics programme of study, using open-ended tasks to encourage teaching and learning through practical problem solving and investigations.

The performance descriptions were produced by the regulatory authorities (QCA, Welsh Assembly Government and CEA (Northern Ireland)) in collaboration with the awarding bodies. These performance, produced in 2003, descriptors for mathematics at AS and A2 levels were written to indicate the level of attainment...

This set of subject criteria were produced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) in 2002 for Awarding Bodies to produce Mathematics specifications for first teaching in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2004 as a result of perceived problems with Mathematics specifications introduced in 2000....

GCE AS and A level subject content for the sciences which was introduced in 2015.

Produced by the Royal Observatory Greenwich and designed for students following the Edexcel GCSE astronomy course, this booklet provides information and instruction on using observations and photographs to estimate the density of stars in the sky. Observations and calculations are made as part of the coursework...

A teacher produced workbook containing activities focused solely on database parts. The resource consists of a section on databases, a discussion of the pros and cons of flat file databases versus relational databases  which leads into how to create tables, insert data into them and then interact with them using...

This set of subject criteria were produced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority for Awarding Bodies to produce subject specifications for use in 2006 GCSE Science, GCSE Additional Science, GCSE Applied Science (Double Award), GCSE Additional Applied Science, GCSE Biology, GCSE Chemistry, and GCSE Physics...

A series of 20 activities related to Data Representation in the GCSE Syllabus. Activities include worksheets on Binary (including addition, shifting and conversions), character encoding systems, various aspects of how audio files are created and stored, Huffman Tree encodings, Denary and Hexadecimal conversions,...

This resource contains four treasure hunts. Each treasure hunt contains twenty questions. Each page contains the answer to one of the other questions, the question to be answered and a box containing the card number. Students are required to answer the questions and record the order in which the questions were...

A brief video outlining the different types of physics experiments and their functionality.

These resources will help students apply their physics knowledge and understanding, by giving them the opportunity to practice responding to questions set in unfamiliar contexts. Network Rail has developed these question and answer banks to support students and teachers with applying some of the more challenging...

QCA stipulates the criteria for awarding organisations to follow when developing specifications for GCSEs qualifications. Specifications have to meet these criteria in order to be accredited.

The GCSE qualification criteria explain the general aims of studying a particular subject at GCSE and outline the...