Statistics and Probability
This book, 'Finding out', from the Shell centre offers a range of materials designed to support students as they pursue extended tasks relating to statistical investigations. The analysis of real data which is of some personal significance can be much more rewarding for students than the completion of exercises containing…
Teacher's Guide and Impact
The teacher’s guide from the Shell Centre which accompanies the series of modules to support school-based assessment is the main guide to the materials. It makes some suggestions as to how the materials might best be used. It was not intended that this guide should be read from cover to cover at the first attempt but was designed…
Pure Investigations
These two books from the Shell centre focus on the pure investigations. The pure investigation tasks are, perhaps, rather different from the other two main types of extended task, those of a practical nature and those of an applied nature, in the sense that they allow students to seek out the pattern and beauty of mathematics without…
Warmsnug Double Glazing
This NRICH maths problem offers students a chance to develop strategies for organising and understanding such situations. This is all done within the context of calculating areas and perimeters of rectangles. Mathematics lessons can sometimes feel neatly packaged, with information, techniques, patterns all readily accessible. But…