Resources by Maths Careers
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Air Miles
This More Maths Grads resource, from the Maths Careers website, investigates the maths used in transport and is based on the travelling salesman problem.
Students are given a table containing information on the cost of air travel between nine different cities and asked to plan a route that visits each...
Cryptic Challenge
This resource, from the Maths Careers website, contains a quiz in which teams have to solve a different type of code of cypher in each round.
The topics covered include mobile texting, transposition of messages, pencil code, binary and frequency analysis.
The activity was written in conjunction with...
Cube Puzzle
This resource, from the Maths Careers website, contains data collected from 100 groups competing in a cube puzzle.
The information was collected as part of the Big Bang London Science Fair and includes a range of investigations to help explore the data. Areas covered include scatter diagrams, correlation,...
Enrichment activities
This booklet, provided by More Maths Grads, has been designed to highlight the ways that mathematics is used in daily life. There are a selection of enrichment activities which include games, card tricks and puzzles that can be used to demonstrate how much fun mathematics can be, as well as the many ways in which...
Fractals
This resource, from the Maths Careers website, explores fractal geometry and was created in conjunction with More Maths Grads and the University of Leeds.
The activity involves making paper representations of fractals and gives the opportunity to investigate some of their mathematical properties.
The...
Mathematical Trickery
These resources, from the Maths Careers website, looks at the maths behind a variety of magic tricks and was created in conjunction with More Maths Grads and the University of Leeds. Tricks and ideas include those from Rob Eastaway, Johnny Ball and others.
The resource package includes a PowerPoint...
These resources come from the Maths Careers website, which is managed and maintained by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. The eleven activities in this collection are designed to encourage learner to delve deeper into a wide range of mathematical...
Maths in Real Life: Classroom Challenge
This resource from, the Maths Careers website, includes eight maths activities and was created by More Maths Grads. The activity was designed to be used with able Year 7 or Year 8 pupils, in teams of four or five, and should last around an hour.
The eight activities are:
1. Nets of Cubes
2....
More Maths Grads Posters
Produced by More Maths Grads, these bright posters are intended for use in schools to illustrate the range of opportunities that mathematics can open. These include the aerospace industry, architecture, navigation technologies, biological sciences, music and sport.
Paper Imagination
This resource, from the Maths Careers website, uses paper folding to investigate the platonic solids and was created in conjunction with More Maths Grads and the University of Leeds.
This activity was designed to be run with Key Stage 3 students and involves constructing several of the platonic solids using...