STEM Knowledge Networks
This booklet provides twelve case studies from STEM Knowledge Networks. These were projects supported by the National STEM Centre in partnership with the National Centre for the Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (NCETM). Schools were required to enable at least two or more STEM departments to work collaboratively by releasing teachers…
Ensuring a High Quality, Localised Infrastructure for the CPD of Maths Teachers
The purpose of the study, produced by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) was to inform the establishment of the planned National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), but it is also hoped that this report of the study will be viewed as a useful contribution to the on-going debate about…
Ensuring Effective CPD for Teachers of Mathematics in Primary Schools
A policy report produced by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education which argues that the key issues for the future of primary mathematics learning and teaching can only be addressed in primary schools if there is suitable provision of continuing professional development (CPD). In view of this, ACME commissioned a study into…
Science and Mathematics Education 5-14
This report, produced by the Royal Society, has a triple purpose: • to provide a summary of the quantitative information that is available on attainment and the workforce in respect of 5–14 science and mathematics education across the UK • to explain the factors considered to have been influential in producing…
Breakaway Maths Level 3 - Copymasters
This resource from Breakaway Maths is designed to support children who are having problems with remembering facts and acquiring mathematical skills. Though designed to complement the Level 3 textbooks and workbooks in the series, the worksheets could be used as further activities to consolidate and practise areas taught in class.…
Breakaway Maths Level 3 - Going Home
This resource from Breakaway Maths is designed to support children who are having problems with remembering facts and acquiring mathematical skills. Mathematical questions are posed around colourful pictures which tell the story of David, Lisa, Nicky and Rupa as they return home following a weekend away at an activity centre. Mathematical…
Breakaway Maths Level 3 - Climbing and Shooting
This resource from Breakaway Maths is designed to support children who are having problems with remembering facts and acquiring mathematical skills. Mathematical questions are posed around colourful pictures which tell the story of David, Lisa, Nicky and Rupa as they go shooting and climbing at an activity centre. Mathematical areas…
Breakaway Maths Level 3 - The Museum
This resource from Breakaway Maths is designed to support children who are having problems with remembering facts and acquiring mathematical skills. Mathematical questions are posed around the colourful pictures which follow the story of David, Lisa, Nicky and Rupa as they visit a museum. Mathematical areas covered are: •…
Breakaway Maths Level 2 - Number Workbook
This resource from Breakaway Maths is designed to support children who are having problems with remembering facts and acquiring mathematical skills. It contains questions to consolidate and practise areas taught in class. The mathematical points covered are: • Counting to 10 • Writing numerals to 10 • Language…
Nemesis
This resource from Breakaway Maths is designed to support children who are having problems with remembering facts and acquiring mathematical skills. Mathematical questions are posed around the colourful pictures which follow the story of David, Lisa, Nicky and Rupa on a trip to an adventure park. Mathematical areas covered are: •…
Toyland Tours
This resource from Breakaway Maths is designed to support children who are having problems with remembering facts and acquiring mathematical skills. Mathematical questions are posed around the colourful pictures which follow the story of David, Lisa, Nicky and Rupa on a trip to an adventure park. Mathematical areas covered are: •…
Goodbye to the Castle
This resource from Breakaway Maths is designed to support children who are having problems with remembering facts and acquiring mathematical skills. Mathematical questions are posed around the colourful pictures which follow the story of David, Lisa, Nicky and Rupa as they return from a trip to a castle. Mathematical areas covered…
Let's Investigate Handling Data
A series of three books containing a number of activities designed to explore topics covering the handing data objectives in the curriculum. Each book is split into four sections. Each section consists of teacher notes detailing objectives, language development, further activities and includes photocopiable material. Book 1 is…
Guides to Assessment in Education: Mathematics
Teachers make assessments all the time for a whole variety of reasons. Assessment is essential to teaching. It has to be acknowledged that although getting to know students thoroughly is part of a teacher's expected load, assessment does represent a noticeable burden. Above all, the report tries to emphasize assessment as a…
Handling Data: African Animal Maths (Age 7-11)
This resource from ARKive, aimed at Key Stage Two, focuses on handling data, using some of the species that inhabit the African savannah as a context. It involves completing a table on the height and weight of animals and converting heights from metres into centimetres. In a second activity children are asked to interpret the…
Improving Young People's Engagement with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
This paper, published to coincide with Science and Engineering Week 2013, presents evidence from research carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to explore how to encourage further engagement in, and take-up of, STEM subjects. It discusses why STEM education is important and looks at how policymakers,…
Mathematics: Made to Measure
This Ofsted report is based predominantly on evidence from inspections of mathematics between January 2008 and July 2011 in maintained schools in England. Inspectors visited 160 primary and 160 secondary schools and observed more than 470 primary and 1,200 secondary mathematics lessons. The report draws attention to serious inequalities…
A World-class Mathematics Education for All our Young People
This report was the result of a request to Carol Vorderman from David Cameron and Michael Gove for advice on mathematics education at the time the Conservative Party was in opposition. A small voluntary task force was formed and worked with organisations and individuals (including students and parents) in the course of the completion…
Supporting Scotland's STEM Education and Culture: Second Report
This report, published by the Science and Engineering Education Advisory Group in January 2012, addresses many of the challenges and opportunities arising in implementation of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) as it affects the delivery of STEM education and engagement. It examines the ways in which STEM education may…
Second Report of the Independent Review of Teachers' Standards
This report sets out the recommendations of an independent Review of Teachers’ Standards, chaired by Sally Coates. The review was launched by the Secretary of State in March 2011 with a remit to review the existing framework of professional standards for teachers. The Review Group comprises excellent teachers, head teachers…
Ready to Grow: Business Priorities for Education and Skills
This is the third education and skills survey published by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). The survey provides an authoritative barometer of business opinion on key education and skills issues. It was conducted in February 2010, with responses received from 694 employers, collectively employing over 2.4 million people,…
STEM Careers Review 2010
This review of STEM careers, led by John Holman, was funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation in February 2010. The review covered provision of STEM careers education, information, advice and guidance in England. The report focused on secondary and further education, but recommended the need to commence careers related work from…
Values and Variables: Mathematics Education in High-Performing Countries
This report, commissioned by the Nuffield Foundation, addresses two questions: • What is the range and type of research evidence from countries with high performance in mathematics that gives insights into the reasons for their relatively high position? • What constitutes high performance in mathematics learning and…
Mathematics in A Level Assessments
A report produced by the Nuffield Foundation on the mathematical content of A level assessments in business studies, computing, economics, geography, psychology and sociology. In the UK fewer students engage with mathematics after the age of 16 than do their peers in other countries. One way of addressing this issue is to consider…
Key Understanding in Mathematics Learning: Paper 1 Overview
This review, published by the Nuffield Foundation, presents a synthesis of research on mathematics learning by children from the age of five to the age of sixteen years and identifies the issues that are fundamental to understanding children’s mathematics learning. The report concentrates on three main questions regarding key…
Global Grant-Making: a Review of UK Foundations' Funding for International Development
This report published by the Nuffield Foundation in January 2012 provides an up-to-date picture of the scale of UK foundation resources devoted to international development. It also identifies how these resources are distributed across region and need, and how foundations approach international funding activities. Commissioned…
Evaluation of the Wellcome Trust Camden STEM Initiative
This report, published in March 2012 by the National Foundation for Educational Research, presents the findings of an evaluation of the Wellcome Trust’s Camden Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative which provided funding to eight Camden schools to develop interdisciplinary projects. Projects…
Subject Choice In STEM: Factors Influencing Young People (Aged 14-19) in Education
The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre (EPPICentre) was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust to undertake this systematic review of research about subject choice. The main aim of the review was to examine the factors that influence the STEM subject choices of young people (14-19 years) in education…
Forming a Rhythm Band
This resource uses Cuisenaire® Rods to investigate how to make different sounds by putting the differently coloured rods into a can and shaking them. Children are then asked to create notes for the different coloured rods and use these to write and perform their own songs. Cuisenaire® Rods are a useful mathematical resource…
Changing Rod Stories to Number Sentences
This resource uses Cuisenaire® Rods to create addition stories. Select one rod and the two rods that when positioned side by side are the same length as the original. Then use the white rods which represent 1 to convert the rod story into an addition sentence. Included are teachers' notes and a worksheet to practise converting…
Interpreting One-colour Trains as Fractional Parts
In this resource children are asked to build all of the possible one-colour trains to match the purple rod. Fitting them underneath they then resemble a fraction wall where children can describe the fractional parts of the whole purple rod. They then investigate the other coloured rods and their fractional parts, for example halves…
Recording Subtraction Stories
In this resource, children are asked to create subtractions using different coloured rods and interpret and solve subtraction sentences. Following this they form all of the possible addition and subtraction sentences for three given rods. This activity is a way of introducing or reinforcing subtraction using a concrete, visual representation.…
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