This booklet focuses on gendered representations of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and how young people's views of careers in these subjects are developed. Classroom activities were developed for students drawing on media literacy skills to examine how their ideas have been influenced by...

Four points are given that lie on the sides of an invisible square. The challenge is to draw in the sides of the square. Spatial reasoning is an essential skill for this task. This resource is suitable for Key Stage 3.

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Students check and complete invoices. Students also work with their own data in spreadsheet simulations of invoices.

This resource is part of the Nuffield Maths Level 1 Foundation resource collection.

From the Nuffield Foundation, this module attempts to build up an understanding of irrational numbers. It contains ideas and content which would normally be introduced much later (for example, the notion of closure, use of continued fractions – which are called ‘continuous’ fractions in the text).

The...

This Cre8ate maths activity provides an opportunity for work on inverse proportion, conversion calculations, compound percentage change and information handling skills.

This report identified the alarming disparity between the proportions of students studying mathematics beyond the age of 16.  At that time only one-fifth of pupils in England continued to study maths at any level after achieving a GCSE - the lowest of 24 developed countries. A key recommendation from the report was...

Newton is regarded as one of the most influential physicists and mathematicians of all time and his actual birthday depends upon which calendar is used. Under the Julian calendar which was being used in England at the time Newton was born on Christmas day 1642. However, under the currently used Gregorian calander...

This Cre8ate maths activity focuses on reflection and thinking about translation or rotation. It also uses co-ordinates to develop a non-standard transformation. The topic provides rich opportunities for cross curricular work and can also provide the focus for off-site activities.

These four puzzles were initially published in 1917 but are now presented by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) in their Secondary magazine as starting points for mathematical exploration.

It’s in the news! This idea for a mathematical activity featured in the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) Secondary magazine issue 81.

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Issue 84 of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) Secondary magazine featured an activity which was developed by a teacher looking for ways of integrating a problem-solving approach into his everyday teaching.

The activity focuses on finding the mean, mode, median and...

This task is designed to assess how well students are able to apply Pythagoras’ theorem.

T.V. screens are measured by their diagonal. The task asks students to give advice about what size T.V. to buy subject to a list of conditions.

This task is from the Mathematics Assessment Resource Service, a...

In this resource from stats4schools, students are asked if they believe in 'the Force'. One of the questions on the 2001 census asked people about their religion. Some people did put Jedi as a response on their census form and the Office for National Statistics have released this data. Students investigate this...

This short task considers a car journey. Students are given a description of a car journey. They must draw a distance-time graph for this journey. Subsequent questions involve interpreting the graph drawn.

The resource comes with both scored and unscored student work. This is useful for peer assessment and...