This collection of forty three investigations, games and puzzles aimed at students aged nine to fourteen. [b]The investigations contained in this booklet include:[/b] number machine investigations, line segments, musical madness, Egyptian fractions, exploring plant growth, circles, number patterns in area and...

This book produced by the team behind the Magpi magazine and the Raspberry Pi contains a series of projects suitable for students of all ages. It consists of 13 chapters which start off by introducing students to Scratch on the Raspberry Pi, it then builds up the complexity of the tasks chapter on chapter. A brief...

This resource uses an investigation into whether everyday objects are magnetic or not to develop the language skills of prediction and expressing an opinion. The teaching notes include guidance on how to run the investigation which are supported by the powerpoints which include pictures of the objects to...

This report aimed to identify practical examples of good practice that promote good behaviour and that can be adopted by all schools. The authors identified aspects of practice that create the right conditions for good behaviour to be learnt. The authors further comment that whilst school staff work hard to support...

This report was written post Cockcroft and at a time when a number of organisations were producing computer programs and packages for use in the mathematics classroom. The report is split into a number of sections.

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Purpose: Although teachers will often teach new practical skills directly, having digital support resources can be very useful. Such resources can be used to reinforce teaching by rehearsing techniques or by providing an aide memoire for rarely used skills.

Teaching sequence: The example provided teaches...

This edition of the Computing at School newsletter focuses on Computational Thinking, and contains articles covering:

*The importance of computational thinking

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This report, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Engineering (the Academy), explores the ways schools can create better and more engaging learning opportunities for would-be engineers.

This report identifies four principles that underpin the kinds of teaching that are most...

This resource presents a number of case studies of schools which took part in the Thinking like an engineer project from 2014 to 2016.