A set of tried and tested curriculum resources which aim to improve students' enquiry skills and increase engagement.  

This video resource from Teachers TV features AST mathematics teacher Gary Morris, from William Parker Sports College in Hastings, as he delivers a Key Stage Four GCSE revision lesson which is intended to assess students' understanding of a recently completed module on statistical diagrams. Students work in teams...

This task assesses understanding of graphs and box plots.

A graph is given that shows the highest average temperature for each month in California and Washington. The task is to say what is the same about the graphs, and what is different. A subsequent task is to select correct box plots for California and...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand applying Pythagoras’ theorem in an unfamiliar situation and calculating areas of circles.

During the Edo period (1603-1897) of Japanese history, geometrical puzzles were hung in the holy temples as offerings to the gods and as challenges to...

This worksheet challenges students to answer a series of questions themed around tesselation. It provides worked examples, examiners top tips and answers to each question. The resource is useful for teaching maths content in design and technology, or as a maths activity sheet.

The resource has three parts.

Continue the patterns 1 provides tessellating patterns produced on squared dotted lattice paper. Students are required to continue each of the patterns.

Continue the patterns 2 provides tessellating patterns produced on isometric dotted...

This resource contains eight instant maths ideas, designed to provide students with the opportunity to investigate which polyominoes tessellate, which triangles tessellate, which quadrilaterals tessellate, design their own shape that tessellates and find tessellating patterns in art and nature. Student resource...

This puzzle involves spatial reasoning relating to nets. Some nets of a tetrahedron are shown with different arrangements of colours. The challenge is to determine which one results in a different arrangement of colours when folded. This resource is suitable for Key Stage 3.

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An average of 39 million tonnes of untreated sewage overflows into the River Thames each year from London's Victorian sewerage system. This collection contains series of teaching and learning resources linking mathematics and science to the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, a major new sewer that will help protect the...

The Active Maths Pack was produced by the Spode Group at a time when teachers were coming to terms with coursework as a compulsory element of the GCSE mathematics course. The new national criteria for GCSE called for a greater emphasis on investigation, discussion, practical work and problem solving. The pack has...

Starting in January, the competition follows the story of two young cipher sleuths, Mike and Ellie, as they get caught up in a cryptographic adventure. Every week or two weeks a new chapter of the story is released with a code to crack. 

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The Applied Maths Pack was produced by the Spode Group at a time when teachers were coming to terms with coursework as a compulsory element of the GCSE mathematics course. The new national criteria for GCSE called for a greater emphasis on investigation, discussion, practical work and problem solving.

The...