'Closing the gap: test and learn' is the first programme in the world to trial multiple interventions simultaneously using a wholly collaborative approach across a large number of schools.

In this programme, over 200 teaching schools alliances worked together to carry out 11 large-scale, randomised...

Following on from the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 Blockly activities using Rapid Router, this teacher guide introduces Python textual programming. The difficulty of the algorithm challenges and the coding required is raised to new levels, but adequate support is provided in the guides. This resource makes use of...

This action research report is published by LSIS. It describes a project undertaken by Middlesbrough College. The project set out to improve the teaching of mathematics and numeracy by non-specialists. It identified and disseminated good practice across the college.

This teaching guide provides a range of ideas and resources for teaching about communicable disease and the immune system at A level. Curriculum links include pathogen, bacteria, virus, fungus, protoctista, transmission, immunity, antibodies, autoimmune diseases, vaccination and antibiotics.

Although...

MEI Online Resources provide this introduction to Complex Numbers for MEI FP1.

Detailed notes covering the number system, adding subtracting and multiplying complex numbers, complex conjugates, equations with complex roots, equating real and imaginary parts and crucial points to learn are included, together...

MEI Online Resources for MEI FP1 provide a selection of material for the modulus-argument form of Complex Numbers.

Detailed notes explain The modulus argument form of complex numbers and its application to sets of...

During the statistics course, students will meet a range of different methods of hypothesis testing, all slightly different. The aim of this matching exercise is for students to create a table giving a variety of examples of situations in which a test may take place, the type of test which should be used in each...

In this video Kevin Gilmartin – Colleges Specialist at the Association of School and College Leaders- shares his perspective on Core Maths.

This book on cosmology, from the Royal Astronomical Society, provides a good primer for those teaching A-level physics courses or GCSE Astronomy.

The resource begins by introducing the history of measurements in...

In this activity, pupils compare Earth and Mars in the context of geography and science. They will begin by comparing the positions of both planets in the solar system, and end by designing their own life forms that could potentially survive on Mars.

This series of interactive excel sheets aimed at students in Year Two looks at counting, reading and ordering whole numbers up to 100. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button. To return to the menu page click on the musical...

This series of interactive excel sheets aimed at students in Year Three look at counting, reading and ordering whole numbers up to 1000. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button.

Aimed at EYFS this resource contains two decorative number lines which help illustrate counting in twos and fives. Counting in 2’s illustrates the gap between the numbers using pairs of socks whilst Counting in 5’s illustrates the gap between the numbers using handprints. The sheets need to be printed out and...

This resource, published in 1980 looks at how craft, design and technology was being taught in schools and, using case studies as examples, examined what made for successful practice. The roles of teachers, heads of department, technicians and local authorities are examined, highlighting how these roles were...

In this project, students make their own aspirin or paracetamol and then test the purity of the pain-reliever and compare it to shop-bought.  This covers titrations, chromatography and other analytical techniques.