Engineering in maths

Celebrate the world and wonder of engineering with these mathematics resources.

These resources contain a range of curriculum-based materials that link mathematics to the real world to help get your students get engaged in engineering.

Resources for 11-16

Circles and ratios

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting circles and ratio in the context of engineering, together with materials to support teaching of these topics.

Co-ordinates

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting grid references in the context of engineering, together with materials to support the teaching of this topic.

Data collection

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting data collection in the context of engineering, together with materials to support the teaching of this topic.

Gradients

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting gradients of graphs in the context of engineering.

Nets and circles

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting nets and circles in the context of engineering.

Percentage increase

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting percentage increase in the context of engineering, together with materials to support the teaching of this topic.

Probability

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting 'A' level probability and statistics in the context of engineering, together with materials to support teaching of these topics.

Properties of polygons

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting properties of polygons in the context of engineering, together with materials to support the teaching of this topic.

Pythagoras' theorem

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting Pythagoras' theorem in the context of engineering, together with materials to support teaching of the topic.

Scale drawing

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting scale drawing in the context of engineering, together with materials to support teaching of these topics.

Statistical measures

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting statistical measures in the context of engineering, together with materials to support the teaching of this topic.

Tesselations

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting tessellations in the context of engineering, together with materials to support the teaching of this topic.

Volume

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting volume and area in the context of engineering, together with materials to support teaching of these topics.

Resources for 16-19

Exponential growth

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting exponential growth and decay in the context of engineering, together with materials to support teaching of these topics.

Integration

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting definite integrals in the context of engineering, together with materials to support teaching of these topics.

Mechanics

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting mechanics in the context of engineering, together with materials to support teaching of these topics.

Trigonometric graphs

A collection of resources to provide ideas for setting the transformation of trigonometric graphs in the context of engineering, together with materials to support the teaching of this topic.

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