For her research, Veronika looked at how pine cones close when the weather is wet and open when it is dry. Pine cones do this to give their seeds the best chance of flying far away from the tree so that they can grow into new trees far away. In the rain, the seeds will not fly as far and will end up competing with...

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A video is shown of two bagels being toasted. A piece...

These resources were designed by the National Strategies as Year Nine Easter holiday resources in preparation for Key Stage Three SATS. The target group is level four to five borderline students. The exercises were intended to be done every weekday of the holidays (10 days) with ten minutes spent on each set (...

This interactive excel file deals with place value of number and with multiplication and division by 10, 100 and 1000. The interactive sheets begin with the student being able to reveal the word form for a set of large numbers. Then there are sheets which show sets of integers or decimals which are to be multiplied...

This book provides support for 11+ mathematics preparation. It contains over 30 short tests, each covering a mixture of topics and skills. There are also puzzle pages throughout to challenge mathematics skills and a progress chart to keep track of scores. 

This book of 10-Minute Tests from CGP is perfect for helping pupils...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand applying proportional reasoning to humanitarian statistics.

In the 1990s researchers calculated that if there were just 100 people in the world

• There would be 20 children
• 25 people would not have food and shelter
• 17...

This is the second collection of braintwisters to be reprinted from Mr Barnard's weekly column in the London Observer. 

Not only are the puzzles in this book a stimulating challenge to the...

100 ways to get students hooked on math! It happens to the best of us: that one question that's got you stumped. Or maybe you have the answer, but it's not all that compelling or convincing. Al Posamentier and his...

This book offers strategies and activities for you to integrate into your everyday teaching to ensure your lessons are consistently outstanding and include all the mathematics skills secondary...

This poster shows 100 exciting job roles that link to science, technology, engineering and maths.

Be inspired by the array of jobs you could consider in the future if you keep your options open with maths and science:

• Space structures engineer
• Stadium designer
• Flood modeller...

1001mathproblems.com features resources that focus on mathematical reasoning and problem solving. The problems are aimed at Key Stage 3, though many of them would also lend themselves to Key Stage 2. The work is presented here in the form of printable...

This book, written by the established author David Acheson, makes mathematics accessible to everyone. Providing an entertaining and witty overview of the subject, the text includes several fascinating puzzles, and is accompanied by numerous illustrations and sketches by world famous cartoonists. This unusual book...

This assessment task from Bowland asks students to use mathematical reasoning to estimate the number of descendants a girl who lived 110 years ago might have today. The key processes involved are representing, analysing, communicating and reflecting. Students are given a number of basic facts upon which to base...

Seventeen Equations that Changed the World shows how equations open new vistas of experience, from electronics and global communications to radar, lasers, space crafts and the atom bomb.