MEI GCSE mathematics extension materials

The GCSE Mathematics extension materials are aimed at students who are working towards GCSE Mathematics and would benefit from exposure to mathematics beyond the GCSE specifications.Aims The aims of the materials were:To introduce students to new ideas so as to stimulate their interest in the subject.To reinforce some...

MEI Online Resources

Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI) is a membership organisation and a charity. Since the 1960s, MEI has worked to support mathematics teaching and learning. Any income generated through MEI’s work is used to support mathematics education. MEI emphasises understanding and enjoyment of mathematics and also...

SMILE Cards

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 organised...

SMILE Cards: Booklets

The SMILE booklets are a collection of stand alone booklets, part of the SMILE mathematics network of numbered workcards.The collection includes:*Tables booklets*Calculating*Reckonings*Action Fractions*Action Decimals*Decimals to Fractions and Back Again*Imaginings*The Highway Code*Symmetry*Archimedes Spirals*Real...

Supplementary Materials

This is a collection of supplementary materials to accompany the SMILE work cards. The contents are *A wealth of worksheets *SMILE cards answers *Test books and answers *The SMILE mathematics networks *The SMILE Activity List: Cards 0001-2403 and commercial references *SMILE Mathematics: a Guide for...

ARKive Collection

ARKive is working with the world's best filmmakers, photographers, conservationists and scientists to create a multimedia guide to the world's endangered species. The materials in this collection are thus richly illustrated with images from the ARKive project. The ARKive materials help to raise awareness and...

Age 11-14 (Key Stage Three)

ARKive works with the world's best filmmakers, photographers, conservationists and scientists to create a multimedia guide to the world's endangered species. The educational resources produced by ARKive help students to understand concepts of evolution and biodiversity and contain rich images of a wide variety of...

More Maths Grads

More Maths Grads was a three-year project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to develop, trial and evaluate means of increasing the number of students studying mathematics and encouraging participation from groups of learners who have not traditionally been well represented in higher education...

Graded Assessment in Mathematics (GAIM)

GAIM is a teacher assessment scheme for Key Stages Three and Four of the National Curriculum and for GCSE. The scheme was designed for all 11-16 year olds (years 7 to 11) and: • used the framework of levels 2-10 in the five National Curriculum Attainment Targets to provide student profiles, • was designed for use...