This issue of Catalyst includes the following articles:

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This selection of spreadsheets, designed by the Primary National Strategies to aid teaching and learning, tackles data, graphs, charts, measures and money, in a variety of ways.

Carroll diagram allows either shapes or numbers to be dragged into an either one or two criteria table. The...

This series of ten interactive excel sheets explore estimating. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button.

The first sheet shows a number line from 0 to 20, 50 or 100....

Interactive Teaching Programs (ITPs) are an ICT-based tool developed by the National Strategies to support the teaching of key concepts in mathematics. Where available, manuals which describe how the ITP works and could be used are posted as separate files.

This section includes ITPs that cover:

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This Eigen publications material is designed to support the teaching of early mathematics concepts. The booklets are independent of each other each with a specific focus.

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This series of interactive excel sheets is aimed at Year Four students and explores place value. New questions can be generated each time by the click of a button. To check the answers click on the smiley face.

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The workbook contains two simulations designed to help students to understand what is meant by a random process and to give some idea of the likelihood of particular events occurring.

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This resource contains four interactive excel files dealing with:

Probability Line and Simple Examples
This excel file...

A Year Eleven textbook from Task Maths. This resource continues with the thematic approach of the series. In many cases the task titles only give a partial view of the content since the authors’ intention is that the mathematics in the course will be integrated. Task Maths 5 contains some innovative content in most...

A Year Ten module from the Salters’ double award GCSE science course. This module deals with interactions between species in ecosystems. Students are shown how stable conditions lead to a natural balance in populations and how human activities can disturb this balance....

The Rosetta spacecraft was sent on a mission to comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Part of its mission was to deploy a lander, Philae, on the surface of the comet. This resource is also downloadable in the Welsh Language.

The resource contains seven activities themed around the mission:

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The ASE Using Broadcasts booklet was published in 1970 and reflects the availability of different technologies to help teaching and learning at that time. It focuses on the use of radio broadcasts and the follow up work that can arise from them. In particular it...

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The Science Processes and Concepts Exploration (SPACE) project research report on Processes of Life was published in 1992 by Liverpool University Press. The SPACE research was conducted at two centres - the University of Liverpool and King’s College, London. Each centre took responsibility for research in...

In this issue of the STEM Learning magazine Gemma Taylor talks to schools about how they are planning and preparing for the reforms to the design and technology GCSEs....