Drop Dead Gorgeous
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies engages students in discussion about attractiveness, using photographs of the faces of famous people. The aim of this unit is for students to explore the golden ratio as a determinant of attractiveness. In particular the link to facial beauty is explored using the ideas of ratio and…
Will It or Won't It?
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies aims to develop students’ understanding of angle properties in shapes. It begins with the idea of tiling a floor and which shapes will tessellate. After an initial emphasis on discovering angle facts from regular polygons, the unit moves on to using angle facts to predict…
Fractals
This National Strategies Study Plus unit has been designed to cover a number of areas of mathematics, particularly work with number and algebra. It also addresses a range of learning styles along with links to literacy and ICT through the use of spreadsheets. Using the topic of fractals, studnets explore the patterns and sequences…
MP3 Players
In this Study Plus unit from the National Strategies students investigate buying and using an MP3 player. They consider best buys and compare different MP3 players, using proportional reasoning. The unit looks at scatter graphs, ratio and proportion, percentage changes, and simple functions arising from real-life problems. The…
Disaster Relief
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies asks students to plan the relief aid for a fictitious tsunami along the South American Pacific coast. The project is centred on Concepción, Chile’s second largest urban conurbation. This was the scene of an actual tsunami in 1960, after an earthquake off the Chilean coast. A…
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
In this Study Plus unit from the National Strategies, using the subject of global warming, students look at and analyse data to answer the question ‘Is there global warming in the world?’. In the module students are expected to analyse the data through drawing charts and diagrams and then interpreting the charts. Students…
Towers
This mathematical investigation from the National Strategies Study Plus collection starts with the idea of someone being locked up in a tower. The context could to be adapted so that it will appeal to the students, for example built around spies, knights of old, or TV characters. The tower shape and number of windows is varied…
Line Painting
In this Study Plus unit from the National Strategies, students are given opportunities to explore line painting through a practical approach, enabling them to appreciate the need to use algebraic reasoning in a visual setting. The main themes are using and applying mathematics, constructing functions arising from real life problems…
Stop the Press
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies, takes a practical example of costing advertising space in a newspaper and involves the use of spreadsheets to assist in calculating and re-calculating costs. It aims to develop students' awareness of the need for algebraic formulae. Students need to understand why a formula…
Activity Templates
Standards Unit: Improving Learning in Mathematics activity templates. Templates • Table: 2 columns x 4 rows • Table: 2 columns x 8 rows • Dominoes • Table: 4 columns x 4 rows • Table: 2 columns x 3 rows Landscape • Table: 3 column portrait • Hexagonal jigsaw • Table: 3 column landscape •…
London Engineering Project: Gender Inclusion and Cultural Diversity Guidelines
From the London Engineering Project, this document gives practical advice to practitioners about gender and cultural diversity, and suggests good practice in technology and engineering delivery.
STEM Choices: National Standards for IAG
This document from the Department for Education refers to the provision of information, advice and guidance (IAG) for young people. IAG covers a range of activities and interventions that help young people to become more self-reliant and better able to manage their personal and career development, including learning. The standards…
Boxes
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies develops an understanding of volume and surface area of 3D objects through exploring nets. There are opportunities for practical work in all of the lessons. The unit looks at perimeter, area and volume in context. In addition, there are opportunities to develop visualisation and…