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SMILE (Secondary Mathematics Individualised Learning Experiment) was initially developed as a series of practical activities for secondary school students by practising teachers in the 1970s. It became a complete individualised scheme based around a network of activity cards and assessments. The cards were...
BEAM (Be a Mathematician) is a specialist mathematics education publisher, dedicated to promoting the teaching and learning of mathematics as interesting, challenging and enjoyable. BEAM is a branch of Nelson Thornes publishers. The teaching materials cover teaching and learning needs for students aged 3 to 14....
The Mathematics Enhancement Programme has been developed over the past few years at the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. It set out to implement in UK schools the findings of international research. The scheme of work for each year is split into two parts, A and B. The MEP course has been developed in...
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I have used Bowland Maths resources for many interview and observation lessons in my career (thankfully with some success). “You Reckon?” was always a great go-to resource.
“You Reckon?” was designed to introduce the idea of ‘plausible estimation’ when making decisions about important topics- and debunking spurious claims. It contains masses of great questions to get students thinking....
0 One of my favourite resources hosted on the STEM learning website are the Bowland Maths Assessment tasks.
The tasks often feel immediate, and usually feature a great hook:
Not to be confused with the longer, more resource-heavy ‘Case Studies’, the Assessment...
Over the years we have recommended many mathematics resources which are available on the STEM Website. This post is a list of the resources with links to the appropriate post
1001 Math problems
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Area puzzles |
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1Is the UK tax system fair?
In this finance Core Maths resource students explore income tax and national insurance. They are asked to design a tax regime that fits their rationale and generates enough income (£154bn), using the data below:
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Easter is quite late this year- some schools are now in the second week of their holidays, while others break up at the end of this week. So how is the date determined?
In this Core Maths resource, students are asked to use the algorithm below (the 'Ten Divisions to Easter') to find the date of Easter Sunday.
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What determines the reading age of a text? Sentence length? Frequency of shorter words? The mathematics involved in determining a reading age can lead to an interesting Core Maths classroom discussion.
The Core Maths Reading age resource also asks students to use three of the most used methods to calculating reading age:
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in order to promote the upcoming international women and girls in science day we as a STEM club made a display board within the classroom highlighting a few influential women who changed the world of science, tech, maths and engineering. This also allowed us to then use this as a teaching point to our different classes to promote science as a career.
Science behind the worker bees. The logo from the I love manchester
A range of displays created around our school advertising different careers, designers and process withing STEM subjects. We mainly focused on creating displays that are attractive for the students, attract their eyes from a distance but educated them on the benefits surround our subjects. As our department is spread around the school we aimed to ensure that their was unity within the design...
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