Choosing the Right STEM Degree Course: Investigating the Information Available
This report focuses on progression from post-16 education in schools and colleges into STEM first degree programmes and proposes a number of recommendations for improving levels of communication among the main stakeholders. SCORE commissioned the Centre for Education and Industry, which is based at the University of Warwick,…
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…
Everyday Mathematics
Planning a Kitchen: SMILE card 1310 is a booklet which requires students to design a kitchen. The first task is to calculate the cost of buying the constituent parts of a kitchen. Students have to measure furniture in their own kitchen and draw a scale diagram. Students are given scale plan drawings of furniture they can use in the…
Imaginings
Imaginings: SMILE card 2112 is a collection of multi-levelled activities to develop mental imagery skills. The activities are grouped together into seven topics; starter, 2D, folds, creases and cuts, cubes, 3D, rotations and bits and pieces. The activities provide an excellent opportunity to use mathematical language. The tasks vary…
The Highway Code
The Highway Code: SMILE card 1314 is a booklet of activities using the signs found in the Highway Code as a context. The booklet begins with a page of road signs. The first task asks students to categorise the signs by placing then into a two way table based upon their shape and their colour. The second activity requires students…
Symmetry
Symmetry: SMILE card 0880 is a booklet of activities starting with a number of photographs of objects that exhibit symmetry. In the first task students explore the line symmetry of different mathematical shapes by folding followed by an activity in which students make a symmetrical picture of their own by folding. Students then make…
Hexaflexagons
Hexaflexagons: SMILE card 0828 is a booklet giving detailed instructions on how to make a hexaflexagon. The resource includes photographs showing how to flex the hexaflexagon. There are instructions on how to colour the hexaflexagon and how to make a record of all the flexes. The resource concludes by showing a variety of alternative…
Spirals
Archimedes’ Spirals: SMILE card 1998 is a booklet of activities beginning by explaining how to draw Archimedes’ spirals using the ‘cotton reel method’. The second activity uses a ruler, protractor, string and tracing paper to work out which of the spirals given is an Archimedes spiral. Polar graph paper is…
Fractions and Decimals
Action Fraction: SMILE card 0598 is a booklet designed to support the teaching and learning of fractions. The booklet begins by using diagrams to explain how to multiply a whole number by a mixed number and is extended to multiplying a mixed number by a mixed number. Action Decimals: SMILE card 0618 is a booklet which takes the…
Reckonings
SMILE Card 2324 is a booklet containing six sections; counting activities, place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, number puzzles and types of number. Counting activities gives details of a task explaining how to generate sequences and the game fizz-buzz. Place value has four activities. Number lines:…
Calculating
SMILE Card 1783 is a booklet containing twenty two activities designed for students to practice using a calculator correctly and begins with a test to find out whether students' calculator obeys the rules of BODMAS. There follows a number of activities in which students use their calculator to complete the tasks. Mystery…
Add-ons
Add-ons are part of the T5 (‘Targeting level 5’) pack. There are twelve Add-ons, each covering one of the major areas of mathematics drawn from the level 4–6 Key Stage Three National Curriculum test papers, with a particular emphasis on those areas crucial for achieving level 5. Each Add-on includes four to seven…
Continuing Professional Development for Teacher of Mathematics
Provided by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME), this resource was written in 2002. It includes recommendations on the steps to be taken, at that time, to raise the quality of mathematical provision in schools. Concerns regarding the poor uptake of students continuing to study mathematics at Post 16, the reduced…
Learning Outdoors
This programme from Teachers TV shows how one school uses the school grounds as a valuable resource for learning across the primary curriculum, especially in numeracy. Pip Mann a Year Three teacher at Hook Primary School in Goole passionately believes in the benefits of learning outdoors. Using the outside space within the school…
Data Handling in the Classroom
In this Teachers TV programme, a Year Two teacher overcome her own fear of ICT while improving her teaching of data handling at Key Stage One by using the advice of a fellow teacher. Data handling is often conducted using traditional pen and paper methods in the classroom, but ICT offers an effective and simple way to teach data…
Drama 4 Learning - KS1
This Teachers TV programme shows how one teacher incorporates drama into a mathematics lesson on number at reception and Key Stage One. Terri English at Great Hockham School in Norfolk uses the technique of "Teacher In Role" playing the part of a café owner to make her lesson more engaging for the children, stimulating…
Independent Learning - KS1 Maths
In this Teachers TV programme, two education experts Malcolm Reed and Alison Fletcher analyse a primary mathematics lesson for a mixed ability class, looking at the teacher's techniques for encouraging independent learning. Teacher Pritti Poole encourages the use of mathematical vocabulary as she introduces her lesson on…
Learning Maths with Kyane
This programme from Teachers TV follows the progress of one Year Four child as he learns about 3D shapes. Kyane, a student at Erdington Hall Primary near Birmingham, is regularly absent from school due to asthma. He is often behind with school work and is not socially integrated in his class. Harriet, his teacher, has written…
Lorenz Cipher Machine
The development of techniques used by code-breakers at Bletchley Park Breaking during World War II is the focus of this resource, from the Centre for Innovations in Mathematics Teaching. New branches of statistical analysis and the development of the electronic computer emerged from this work and here students learn how one of the…
EAN Bar Codes
Bar codes are used extensively and this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, enables students to explore how they are structured. The activities are designed to prompt class discussion and mathematical thinking as students learn how to check that a code is valid and develop their own examples. European…
Braille
Braille is a system of dots which enables blind people to read and this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, provides the opportunity for students to explore the patterns used in this code. The activities are designed to prompt class discussion and mathematical thinking, while engaging students in decoding…
Penalty Shoot Out
Simulation of penalty shoot-outs is the focus of this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematical Teaching. Students use random numbers to decide the probability of a team scoring a goal, as well as investigating the average number of kicks and the most likely result. The tasks are designed to prompt class discussion…
National Lottery
The Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching provide this resource which uses the National Lottery to promote class discussion and mathematical thinking. Students explore how the lottery works and investigate the probability of winning, as well as considering a variety of different investment opportunities. The teachers'…
Physical Fitness
Testing physical fitness is the focus of this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. Students are provided with sample data, which they apply to the Gallagher and Brouha Test to calculate the fitness index and determine appropriate grades. The resource is designed to prompt class discussion and mathematical…
Reading Age Formula
Formulae is the focus of this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. Students will be familiar with the term 'reading age' and here they apply different formulae to a selection of text samples, before comparing and considering the accuracy of the results obtained. Substitution into formulae…
Fruit Machines
Probability is the focus of this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. A fruit machine is used to provide a practical situation which allows students the opportunity to explore the likelihood of obtaining a winning line, while the work is structured to prompt class discussion and mathematical thinking. Frequency…
Easter Date
Easter Day varies from year to year and in this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, students encounter the algorithm used to establish when it will occur. A series of tasks, designed to prompt class discussion and mathematical thinking, lead students to predict when Easter Day will fall. This work…
Global Warming
Global warming is the focus of this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. Students are provided with data relating to average temperature rises over a 110 year period which are used to prompt class discussion and mathematical thinking. Graphical representation is a key element of this topic, which could…
World Championship for Test Cricket
International cricket is the focus of this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. Data relating to 2006 is used to demonstrate how the ICC Test Championship Table is constructed and students are guided through a series of activities that have been designed to prompt discussion and develop mathematical thinking. This…
Fair Trade
The relationship between third world countries and the developed world is demonstrated in this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Teaching Mathematics. Students work in groups to make and sell shapes, which are bought by the class teacher who performs the dual roles of Banker and United Nations. Market forces are applied…
Semaphore
The Centre for Innovation in Teaching Mathematics provide this resource which features the semaphore system of messaging, developed by the Chappe brothers in France in the late 18th century. The activities are designed to prompt discussion and mathematical thinking while students learn to interpret and code messages. A detailed…
Rankings in Sport
How performance is ranked in sport is the focus of this resource from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. Ranking plays a vital role in many sports, providing evidence for sponsors that a particular player, or team, is worth investment. Specific examples from cricket are provided and students learn the difference between…
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