On December 15th 2015 European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake launched on the six month Principia mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Principia was named after Isaac Newton’s Naturalis Principia Mathematica, describing the principal laws of motion and gravity.

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This report, edited by Wynne Harlen in 2009, sets out the principles that should underpin the science education of all students throughout their schooling. It argues that students should be helped to develop ‘big ideas’ of science and about science that will enable them to understand the scientific aspects of the...

Act 1

A video shows paper being loaded into a printer. The...

This Cre8ate maths resource looks at challenges derived from printing processes where both logic and geometric thinking are required. In Folding booklets students are given a piece of A4 paper which they fold to form a 16 page booklet and, without cutting the folds in the paper, are challenged to number the pages...

This Catalyst article looks at 3D printing, a new technology which is rapidly finding applications. Although probably too slow for mass production it is useful for producing prototypes and tailor-made items. In a 3D printer, layers of polymer beads are printed one on top of the other. Heat melts the polymer beads...

This resource contains ten instant maths ideas covering a whole range of suggestions that may be used as starter questions, extension questions or probing questions to assess understanding. Areas covered include: * exploring the different answers that can be achieved by completing parts of a complicated calculation...

This interactive excel file shows how the volume of a prism relates to the area of cross section and the length. Various different shapes of cross section are used including pentagons, hexagons, circles and semicircles. In each interactive sheet the cross section can be...

Produced by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), these resources are aimed at mathematics practitioners. .

Sessions in this resource look at:

• Probability scales (using higher order questions)
• Probability, fractions, decimals and percentages (creating connections between...

This resource contains seventeen instant maths ideas beginning by exploring probability scales and simple probability. Students are asked to invent a fair game, to conduct an experiment using two dice and to discuss a number of statements relating to probability. Further suggestions include experimenting with three...

This resource contains four interactive excel files dealing with:

Probability Line and Simple Examples
This excel file...

The workbook contains two simulations designed to help students to understand what is meant by a random process and to give some idea of the likelihood of particular events occurring.

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This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of probability, and a pack of activities using Pascal’s triangle.

Probability pack one contains twelve work cards with a wide variety of activities...

This sub-collection of resources from the Virtual Text Book collection contains four resources designed for use on an interactive whiteboard to aid the teaching and learning of a variety of topics in ‘Probability’. Each resource is an interactive excel worksheet to encourage teacher-student interaction. The topics...

This resource, written by Shirley Fall, has fourteen cards with statements about the likelihood of six different runners winning a race. Students are tasked with using the statements on the cards to determine who is most likely to win the race, with what probability, and in what sequence they would expect the...

This sub-collection of materials from the dy/dan collection contains three resources that bring mathematical storytelling to the classroom in the context of ‘statistics’. Resources comprise:

• Act One: a video or photograph to provide a ‘hook’ to the problem

• Act Two: further...