The James Webb Space Telescope is  currently making observations of distant stars and planets, following it's launch in 2021. It is a highly technical design which has taken many years to be designed and made....

This activity looks at the primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope exploring the challenges that faced scientists and engineers whilst they were designing it. Linking to tessellating shapes in...

A collection of seventy six mathematical activities and investigations aimed at students aged nine to fourteen.

Contents include: silly rulers, number patterns on calendars, the game of Nim, bus routes, frogs, finding how much paper and string is required to wrap some parcels, dissecting a...

These resources from Shropshire Centre for Mathematics Education have been developed by topic to be used as required throughout the academic year. Each section lists the previous knowledge required by students to make the work relevant, as well as highlighting the...

Shropshire Centre for Mathematics Education provides this resource which explains the implementation of the Junior integrated mathematics topics, which were to be used one per half-term. The 24 topics, originally compiled by a small group of teachers from two Shropshire Primary Schools, were designed to complement...

This Cre8ate maths activity investigates the ratio of surface area to volume in adults and babies and explains why we keep babies wrapped up in winter.

To calculate surface area and volume students make scale models...

This version of the National Curriculum for primary schools was published in January 1995 for implementation later that year. Programmes of study and attainment targets are set out for each of the subjects taught at Key Stages One and Two - English, mathematics, science, design and technology, information...

A presentation highlighting seven strategies for behaviour management.

This review, published by the Nuffield Foundation, presents a synthesis of research on mathematics learning by children from the age of five to the age of sixteen years and identifies the issues that are fundamental to understanding children’s mathematics learning. The report concentrates on three main questions...

These resources are provided by the Nuffield Foundation who, in 2007, commissioned a team from the University of Oxford to review the available research literature on how children learn mathematics. The resulting review is presented in a series of eight papers.

Paper 1 Overview - summarises...