Science for Children with Learning Difficulties
The Learning Through Science guide on Science for Children with Learning Difficulties was written for teachers of children in the age range 8 to 13 who are unable to manage learning tasks which are successfully completed by most of their peers. This followed the recommendation in the Warnock Committee report of 1978 that particular…
Mathematics with Eight and Nine Year Olds
This booklet, from the Mathematics Centre at the University of Chichester, contains accounts of how some students aged eight and nine became involved in starting to carry out some of their own mathematical explorations. The accounts focus on the first hour or so of five different sessions. A range of examples of students'…
Brush Loads
This NRICH maths activity is a very practical as well as a visual situation. It can help pupils' development of the concepts associated with area - surface area. Pupils will need to imagine they have a whole collection of cubes and they 're going to paint the outside that's visible once they 've put them together.…
Chocolate
This NRICH maths problem is an excellent problem for helping youngsters to develop their concepts of fractions It's not so much to do with arithmetical manipulation of fractions but more to do with youngsters exploring and developing their ideas of fractions. It involves visualising and calculating mentally. Reasoning skills…
5/5- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Open-ended task
Make 37
This NRICH maths investigation offers learners the chance to apply basic number properties and operations, and will challenge the idea of mathematical problems having one right answer. This activity is an opportunity to encourage children to generalise and, even at this level, they can be asked to prove these generalisations. They…
- 5/5
- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
- Open-ended task
Eggnaut
In this resource from ESA, students' mission is to design and build a vehicle that will protect their Eggnaut from the perils of re-entry from space. The objective is to have your Eggnaut survive the fall without a crack. The project can be adpated for either primary or secondary students. The resource was produced by Spaceweek…
GAIM Activities: Practical Problems
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. GAIM provides teachers with 80 Activities (40 Investigations and 40 Practical Problems) as a resource for teaching and assessment.…
- 4/5
- Publication year: 1990 - 1999
- Open-ended task
Key Stage Three Capability Tasks
A range of resources from the Nuffield Foundation for students to develop and reveal their capability longer more open tasks requiring designing, making and evaluating are necessary. Sometimes these activities are referred to as projects, or design and making assignments. In Nuffield Design and Technology these are called capability…