Linear Functions
This resource, from Susan Wall, contains a number of advanced level activities designed to practise and strengthen understanding of linear functions. Although students have worked with linear functions at GCSE connections between properties, equations and diagrams are not always secure. At advanced level students need to move from…
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,…
Tunnelworks: Introductory Video
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 increasing pollution. Background to the project is given in this introductory video which explains when and how the sewer system, which still…
Maths and Science Education: the Supply of High Achievers at A Level
This paper, from the Department of Education (DfE), presented a comprehensive set of statistical analyses building up a picture of the production function for the supply of young people in England with good A levels in mathematics and science. In this way, the questions addressed are focused towards high attainers in these subjects,…
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…
Subject Progression from GCSE to AS Level and Continuation to A Level
This report, by the Department for Education, provides an analysis of the proportion of students taking GCSE and progressing to AS Level in the same subject (that is, progression rates), focussing on English Baccalaureate subject areas. The report then follows the same cohort through from AS to full A level achievement. Data…
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,…
Educating the Next Generation of Scientists
This report was published by the National Audit Office in 2010 and evaluates progress by the Department for Education in increasing take-up and achievement in maths and science up to age 18. It also reviews the extent to which specific programmes to raise the quality of school science facilities, recruit and retain science and maths…
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,…
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…
New Challenges, New Changes: Further Education and Skills System Reform Plan - Building a World-Class Skills System
This document was published by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills in December 2011, and sets out the programme of work required to take forward the reform of FE and skills system for adults aged 19 and over in England. The report was based on the principles set out in Skills for Sustainable Growth and took account…
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…
An International Comparison of Upper Secondary Mathematics Education: 24 Country Profiles
This report, published by the Nuffield Foundation in 2010, provides an international comparison of upper secondary mathematics education in 24 countries, including England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is based on data collected as part of a research review, which was subsequently validated and supplemented by national…
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…
Acquisition of Science Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy in Initial Teacher Training
Published by the Wellcome Trust in October 201, this report looks at how one-year postgraduate Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses in England and Wales support trainees’ acquisition of subject knowledge and topic specific pedagogy across the sciences. The study, which was the first of its kind to look into the acquisition…
Tunnelworks: Key Stage Five Mathematics
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 increasing pollution. Background to the project is given in the introductory video. AS Maths: In this lesson students generate and transform…
Tunnelworks: Key Stage Four Mathematics
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 increasing pollution. Background to the project is given in the introductory video. Lesson one explores mean, mode and median using fictitious…
Tunnelworks: Key Stage Three Mathematics
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 increasing pollution. Background to the project is given in the introductory video. Lesson one explores right-angled triangles and Pythagoras’…
Other Resources
These Making Statistics Vital resources are provided for those studying the S2 Module of A Level Statistics and present opportunities to investigate Markov chains. A Markov chain is a mathematical system that undergoes transitions from one state to another, between a finite number of states. This spreadsheet allows the user…
Bivariate Data, Regression and Correlation
These Making Statistics Vital resources are provided for those studying the S2 Module of A Level Statistics and present opportunities to review students' knowledge of regression and correlation. Ten-point PMCC - students are challenged to give ten points on a scatter diagram that give a product moment correlation coefficient…
Contingency Tables and the Chi-squared Distribution
These Making Statistics Vital resources are provided for those studying the S2 Module of A Level Statistics and review students' knowledge of hypothesis tests and emphasize the fact that the chi-squared test can only be used with frequencies. Test table - By the end of their A2 Statistics course students will have met a range…
Sampling and Hypothesis Testing Using the Normal Distribution
These Making Statistics Vital resources are produced for those studying the S2 Module of A Level Statistics provide practical experience of sampling techniques and highlight the importance of using suitable sampling procedures. Sampling – Students are given 100 natural numbers and are asked to estimate the mean by taking…
The Normal Distribution
These Making Statistics Vital resources are provided for those studying the S2 Module of A Level Statistics and present students with the opportunity to investigate problems, which require a different approach to those questions usually posed, on the topic of the Normal Distribution. The coffee problem – poses the problem…
The Poisson Distribution
These Making Statistics Vital resources are provided for those studying the S2 Module of A Level Statistics and are designed to help students identify when a Poisson distribution is a suitable model to use, as well as how to use the Poisson distribution as an approximation to the binomial distribution. Having the opportunity to apply…
Binomial Distribution
This Making Statistics Vital resource consists of independent activities, covering aspects of this area of statistics for those studying the S1 Module of AS Level Statistics. The tasks are designed to encourage students to apply their knowledge of binomial distributions to solve challenging problems, giving them the opportunity to…
Discrete Random Variables
This Making Statistics Vital resource consists of a number of independent activities, covering many aspects of this area of statistics. Students have opportunities to explore and develop further their knowledge and understanding of Discrete Random Variables in a practical environment, as well as discussing their strategy when solving…
Probability
These Making Statistics Vital resources on the topic of probability are provided for those studying the S1 Module of AS Level Statistics. The resources are independent of each other and allow students the opportunity to reflect on their learning and appreciate how their knowledge can be applied to solve problems. Random independence…
Measures of Centre and Spread
This Making Statistics Vital resource consists of a number of independent activities, covering many aspects of this area of statistics. Students have practical opportunities to explore and develop further their knowledge and understanding of statistical measures and their application. The barchart - challenges students to analyse…
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