Customers increasingly demand food that has been produced with minimal damage to the environment. In this activity from the Centre for Science Education and the Comino Foundation, students work out how to make a fish and chip shop as environmentally friendly as possible. They then highlight their decisions in an...

This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, discusses a range of topics about how the Sun, planets, asteroids and/or moons have been formed over millions of years.

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This instant maths ideas resource contains ten suggestions for activities covering collecting terms, simplifying expressions, expanding brackets, factorising, balancing equations and rearranging formulas. The resource sheets include students’ material to accompany the alphabet code activity, a page of pictures of...

A STEM club activity where students become a junior palaeontologist and create their own replica of a fossil from the Jurassic period, learning the conditions necessary for fossilisation.

Fraction Matcher gives students the opportunity to explore the concept of fractions. The “Fractions Screen” contains eight levels of matching fractions using fractions less than one up to improper fraction representations for fractions greater than one. The “Mixed Number Screen” concentrates upon fractions greater...

The curriculum objectives covered by this resource are:

• To be able to compare fractions and determine if they are equal where denominators are not common
• To be able to compare fractions and determine if they are greater or smaller
• To be able to justify answers

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The Fractions (General) resource here contains nine instant maths ideas exploring what is meant by a fractions, showing fractions by shading using squared paper and isometric paper, exploring what fraction of words are made up of one letter and investigating why some cancelling does work and others do not. There...

This resource contains three excel files dealing with various aspects of fractions.

Fractions of X (mental arithmetic) This excel file has four interactive sheets. Each sheet shows sets of questions where students find the fraction of given amounts. Answers can be revealed and new sets of...

This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of fractions, from exploring halves and quarters to investigating fractions whose decimal equivalents are recurring decimals.

Fractions pack one ...

Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on fractions and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years.

Each section offers an overview of a...

This collection of videos from MathsMaster.org explain the basics of what a fraction is, equivalent fractions, writing fractions in ther simplest form, mixed numbers, comparing fractions, calculating a fraction of an amount, adding fractions and subtracting fractions. Each demonstration explains carefully the...

Action Fraction: SMILE card 0598 is a booklet designed to support the teaching and...

This resource contains seven 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: * drawing number lines to aid conversion between fractions, decimals and percentages * resources to...