This collection supports learning about healthy eating, cooking and where food comes from. It links to many aspects of physical development, understanding the world and communicating ideas, whilst also aiding vocabulary development and group work. The British Nutrition Foundation provides information relating to...

This collection supports learning about healthy eating, cooking and where food comes from. It links to many aspects of physical development, understanding the world and communicating ideas, whilst also aiding vocabulary development and group work. The British Nutrition Foundation provides information relating to...

The National Strategies were professional programmes for children and young people across all the school phases in England, delivered on behalf of the Department for Education. They were first introduced in 1998 and ceased to operate in 2011. The materials were designed to help teachers and schools focus on the...

This collection is from the Nuffield Foundation and consists of four modules: Speed and gradient, Simultaneous equations, Functionality and matrices.

Each module consists of activities for students, 'hints for pupils' for some of the cards and teachers' notes which contain suggestions for teaching approaches...

This SMILE collection contains twelve resources of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching of number.

The resources cover addition, decimals, directed number, division, fractions, multiplication, ordering and rounding, percentages, place value and number systems,...

Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics.

The Fibonacci sequence is an example of a linear recurrence relation (LRS). A matrix is used to calculate future terms, as well as running the sequence backwards to see how many zeroes appear. Algebra is used to prove the...

MEI Online Resources provide this hexagonal jigsaw activity on Complex Numbers.

It is a matching activity in which triangles ultimately fit together to form a large hexagon and is designed as a group activity. Collaboration with others will help to highlight any misconceptions held by individual students....

Students are presented with a 3 by 3 grid and a series of cards each containing an algebraic statement. Students are required to place the cards on the grid in such a fashion that each row, each column and each diagonal add to give the magic 'number' of 12a + 15b.

Students are then challenged to make up...

This Core Maths task explores the Normal distribution through looking at the weights of new born babies.

Baby boom: Teacher guidance
This teacher guidance gives an overview of the task including prior student knowledge, suggested approaches and possible extensions.

Baby...

This resource looks at binary data and contains an Excel workbook with macros to enable recolouring/checking the colour of cells. A series of binary numbers are given in a rectangular grid of cells on the left when the workbook is first opened. Students are required to recolour the original binary grid, to show the...

From the Integrating Mathematical Problem Solving project by Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI), this activity for post-16 students demonstrates that if a link is suspected between a risk factor and an illness, statistical methods can be used to test whether such a link exists. Topic areas covered are:...

Part two of a series of five lessons covering biomimicry students will develop strategies to produce creative design ideas using nature and natural forms as inspiration. Students will understand through designer examples (Alessi) how companies take inspiration using morphing as a strategy. A series of activities...

In this resource from CensusAtSchool. students compare data on month of birth from 45,000 South African students given in a table to the same data represented in a bar chart. Students are asked to consider reasons for month of birth and why it is appropriate to use percentages for large data sets.Students are then...

Alexandra Park School met with a student baker. Their work with her was mostly a focused practical task (FPT) about the ingredients and processes used in bread making.
Students were also shown how bread is made in batches on an industrial scale. Students were involved in the STEM Ambassador’s bread making...