Tunnelworks
An average of 39 million tonnes of untreated sewage overflows into the River Thames each year from London's Victorian sewerage system. Tunnelworks is a series of teaching and learning resources linking mathematics and science to the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, a major new sewer that will help protect the River Thames from…
WORLDbytes
WORLDbytes is a unique online Citizen TV channel set up and run by the education charity WORLDwrite. Dedicated to advancing new knowledge, skills and ideas, the charity promotes excellence in citizen reporting and provides free training to volunteer-learners which combines practical film making with tackling challenging issues. Working…
MathsMaster
This collection contains four sub-collections; Basic Operations, Number, Fractions, Graph Transformations. There is also a separate resource called Maths and art. Each sub-collection consists of a number of short, instructional videos describing how to perform a variety of mathematical operations. The videos are produced by…
Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching
The Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) was established in 1986. The centre is a focus for research and curriculum development in mathematics teaching and learning, with the aim of unifying and enhancing mathematical progress in schools and colleges. This collection contains resources for use in the teaching of…
Centre for Teaching Mathematics
Members of the Centre for Teaching Mathematics are actively involved in creating new and innovative materials for schools. This collection consists of the Exploring series aimed at A level students. There are three packs of resources; exploring pure mathematics, exploring statistics and exploring mechanics. The collection also…
Mathigon
At school, mathematics is mostly about arithmetic and algebra: adding fractions, solving equations and calculating percentages. These topics are important to understand the formal language that underlies mathematics, but they can appear very dry and boring, with few applications in real life. This collection of educational resources…
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STEM Projects Toolkit
The STEM Projects Toolkit provides resources to help teachers to carry out enquiry-based project work with their students. The resource pack was developed in order to give students hands-on experiences of science and engineering. It is hoped that using scientific methods, the design processes in engineering, and being given the freedom…
Genes Are Us
These videos and supporting activities have been reviewed by teachers and piloted in schools, and are designed to increase awareness and understanding of genetic disorders and to explain how differences in our genes help to make everyone unique. By encouraging acceptance and tolerance of difference, these resources are designed…
Co-operation between Science Teachers and Mathematics Teachers
Six resources in the Co-operation between Science Teachers and Mathematics Teachers series produced by the ISCU Committee on the Teaching of Science considers how mathematics is used in other areas of the curriculum. Functions and Physics looks at how functions are used in Hooke’s law, how quadratic equations are used when…
Nuffield Mathematics Teaching Project
The Nuffield Mathematics Teaching Project produced a series of twenty modules aimed at supporting the teaching of topics in mathematics which in the project team’s view students found difficult. The modules were aimed at students aged 11 and 12 in the first two years of secondary education. Some of the ideas and content would…
SMILE Mathematics Books
SMILE (Secondary Mathematics Individualised Learning Experiment) was initially developed as a series of practical activities for secondary school students by practising teachers in the 1970's. These mathematics books are intended to be not only a source of ideas but to be a flexible resource that can be adapted to different…
Royal Institution Mathematics
The Royal Institution provide a selection of resources which offer opportunities for practical mathematical activities and investigation. Calculating colours - explores the different ways in which proportion can be expressed City walk - provides a natural context to integrate mathematics, engineering and technology Curve…
RA3: Raising Aspirations, Attitudes and Achievement
The RA3 project, provided by the Centre for Science Education, aims to bring parents together with their children and teachers to explore the worlds of science, technology and mathematics. Through stimulating group activities parents and guardians are encouraged to collaborate, in a learning environment, with their children and…
Assessing Pupils Progress in Secondary Science at Key Stage Three
Assessing Pupils Progress (APP) was produced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), and Capita (under contract to the Department for Children, Schools and Families) and is a structured approach to periodic assessment, written to enable teachers to: • use diagnostic information about students’ strengths…
Maths Magic
Maths Magic’s aim is to make mathematics more appealing and enjoyable for students and to open up new opportunities for them in STEM subjects and careers. Maths Magic is a STEM project funded by HEFCE to help widening participation in Higher Education. This collection consists of twelve teaching ideas covering a variety…
Kent Mathematics Project
This resource from the Kent Mathematics Project, published by Ward Lock Educational, was developed by a team of mathematics advisers and provided teachers with a wide range of resources for use with students of all abilities. The record keeping system which accompanied the project allowed detailed reports for individual student's…
New National Curriculum Mathematics
The New National Curriculum Mathematics series of books are updated versions to ensure full coverage of the 1995 revised National Curriculum. Each book covers one level of mathematical content split into four sections: number, algebra, space, shape and measures, handling data. Using and applying mathematics is integrated throughout…
Olympic and Paralympic Games
In 2012, the Olympic and Paralympic games will be held in London. These resources look at a wide range of topics that can all be linked to the games. They cover science, technology, engineering and mathematics and can be used in individual lessons or as part of a cross-curricular Olympic and Paralympic theme. Materials in this…
Task Maths
Task Maths, written by Barbara and Derek Ball, was published in the early 1990s by Thomas Nelson to provide a mathematics programme for secondary schools covering the revised 1991 National Curriculum. The course consists of five student books, one for each year, and parallel teacher resource books. Task Maths provides one set…
NASA Space Math
This series of activities from NASA are based on a weekly series of space science problems distributed to teachers in the United States, from 2004 to 2010. They were intended for students aged 9 to 19 looking for additional challenges in the mathematics and physical science curriculum. The problems were created to be authentic glimpses…
Eigen Maths
This large collection of mathematics resources was produced by Eigen Publications during the period 1983 – 1987. It was almost exclusively written by Dave Kirkby and Des Wilson who set up Eigen Publications. The material in the collection consists of a large number of A5 booklets (nominally 12 to 16 pages) intended for teachers,…
Rolls-Royce Careers Resources
Produced by Rolls-Royce, this toolkit of resources helps students to see the connection between STEM subjects studied in school, college or university and future job opportunities. The resources are designed to help students to understand: • The wide range of jobs and industries which require STEM skills. • The future…
Mathematics for the Majority
The Schools Council Project in Secondary School Mathematics (renamed Mathematics for the Majority) was set up to help teachers construct courses for students of average and below-average ability that related mathematics to their experience and provided them with some insight into the processes that lie behind the use of mathematics…
Assessment of Performance Unit Mathematics Reports for Teachers
The Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) existed to provide objective information about national standards of children’s performance at all levels of ability. Its terms of reference included making the findings available to those concerned with resource allocations within government departments, Local Education Authorities…
Teachers TV
Launched in 2005 and funded by the Department for Education, Teachers TV was originally a television channel which aimed to provide support for both new and experienced teachers, school leaders, support staff and governors. Many of the programmes were filmed inside real classrooms, with teachers sharing good practice and ideas…
Integrated Mathematics Scheme
The Integrated Mathematics Scheme (IMS) was written by Peter Kaner and published between 1982 and 1987. The structure consisted of books A1 and B1 for Year Seven, books A2 and B2 for Year Eight and then three separate ‘tracks’ (L, M and N) for Years 9-11. Books L1, L2, L2 were intended for ‘slow-learners’…
Good Ideas for...
This series of booklets from Polygon Resources deal with a range of mathematical topics appropriate for use during Key Stage Two and Three. Although the activities and notes refer to individual attainment targets, the authors make it clear that in their view mathematics is an integrated subject. For each activity the booklets…
Ofsted Mathematics Reports and Resources
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. Ofsted reports directly to Parliament and is independent and impartial. They inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people, and those providing education and skills for learners of all ages. Each week they carry out hundreds…
Durham Maths Mysteries
The Durham Maths Mysteries were written by Shirley Fall of Durham County Council as a resource to engage students in mathematics and promote discussion. The activities are based on cards with statements about the area of mathematics being covered. Students then have to use reasoning to decide how to tackle the the task. Some of the…
Virtual Maths
The Virtual Maths project, funded by a Leeds Metropolitan University Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund, makes maths more accessible with visual demonstrations of real mathematical problems within the context of the construction industry. With the aid of sound and vision, maths is brought to life with real working construction problems…
National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM)
A collection of teaching resources, provided by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), which were published in a series of online magazines covering early years, primary, secondary, and further education for teachers of mathematics. Early Years magazine has features for those working in, or…
Statistics in Your World
Statistics in Your World is the series title for the teaching material developed by the Schools Council Project on Statistical Education for students aged 11-16. The Project's material links together the statistics used and taught in different disciplines - geography, science, social science, the humanities, and mathematics.…
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