This Cre8ate maths set of survey activities cover estimation and measurement, and engagement is encouraged by introducing a competitive element,. E.g.: Are girls better at estimating than boys? Can boys jump higher than girls? There is scope to perform a variety of investigations on ratios, averages, ranges,...

Act 1

A video shows soda drink being poured into two...

This video, written and presented by Matt Parker and Timandra Harkness, considers the statistics of death. The only certainty is that everyone will die, but it is not known how or when this will happen. Based upon statistics, the odds of dying in particular ways are calculated and interpreted. The Normal...

In this TEMI resource, a mathematical 'magic trick' is used to explore divisors, prime numbers and prime factorisation.

In the trick, the teacher invites students to type a random three digit number into their calculators. To make the task of predicting the divisors of this number even more difficult,...

In this Bowland assessment task, students are required to allocate dormitories at a Youth Hostel for a given number of boys, girls and adults given certain constraints. Suitable methods of displaying the information are to be designed, a systematic method employed in order to check that all the conditions have been...

Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics.

The Fibonacci sequence is an example of a linear recurrence relation (LRS). A matrix is used to calculate future terms, as well as running the sequence backwards to see how many zeroes appear. Algebra is used to prove the...

This Crystal exhibition resource from Siemens focuses on the importance of water as a precious and finite resource. It explores solutions that increase access to drinkable water including rainwater harvesting, waste water recycling, desalination, stopping leaks, reducing water use and water management. Water is...

This group of interactive excel worksheets look at the series of identities of the form

aSin(x) ± bCos(x) and aCos(x) ± bSin(x),

where a=RCos(α), b = RSin(α), R=√(a...

The cre8ate maths project was a CPD initiative for Yorkshire and Humberside teachers of mathematics. It features resources applying maths to key areas of the economy focusing on functional mathematics skills for Key Stage Three students. The project was developed by the Centre for Science Education and the...

These materials are based around the idea of mathematical story-telling, something that the resources’ author describes as ‘The Three Acts of a Mathematical Story’.

Act One

This is where the story is introduced, using as few words as possible, and in a way that will...

This ebook provided by RISPs constitutes a collection of forty open-ended investigative activities for use in the A Level pure mathematics classroom. The book consists of two parts: the first part of the ebook lists all activities indexed by topic together with the teachers' notes. The second part advises on how to...

The eBook of Forty Rich Starting Points for A level Core (RISPs) contains all the activities for use in AS Level Core mathematics and A2 Level Core mathematics.Each RISP contains a student sheet outlining the activity and a teacher version containing guidance on how to use the RISP and additional information to...

This resource challenges students to design an energy plan for an island so that it can become self-sufficient and to consider not only how but also why they might want to do that. Students must design an energy supply system for the island that does not rely on fossil fuels. As well as making decisions about how...

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