The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) was the sector-owned body that aimed to accelerate the drive for excellence in the learning and skills sector. It built on the sector’s own capacity to design, commission and deliver improvement and strategic change. It closed in 2013.

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This mathematics book from the Shell Centre, The Language of Functions and Graphs, is now regarded as a classic book on the teaching and assessment of graph interpretation skills.

The Language of Functions and Graphs...

This report, produced by the Nuffield Foundation, is in response to the Tomlinson Working Group on 14–19 Reform, set up as an outcome of the Government paper, ‘14–19: Opportunity and excellence’. Nuffield’s conviction was that proposals to reform assessment can only be authoritative if they take account of the...

These datasets from stats4schools are compiled from the responses given by over 1,500 people to a survey. They are intended to be used flexibly but some ideas are given to guide students in their interrogations. There are three sheets in each set

1. Decoded data
2. An explanation of the questions...

This resource is part of a collection of Nuffield Maths resources that explore Algebra and Maths. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in Higher Level GCSE and Level 2 Functional Mathematics.

This activity introduces standard form and shows students how to use it in real life contexts. 

This resource is part of a collection of Nuffield Maths resources explores Data Handling. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in Higher Level GCSE and Level 2 Functional Mathematics.

Larks and owls is a very open investigation in which students may set their own statistical tasks based on sleep...

A four by four grid is shown. The challenge is to find polygons with an area of exactly two square units. As additional challenges finding different types of triangles is posed as a problem, followed by pentagons and hexagons. The problem can be approached by counting squares, though some knowledge of how to find...

This resource is from a collection of Nuffield Maths resources exploring Hypothesis testing. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level. The resources typically include slide shows to introduce the topics, student sheets and teacher notes, as well as other relevant resources.

Students are asked...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand estimation and working with measures of capacity.

An estimate is made of how often a tap drips. The first task is to work out how many times the tap drips in one week. An estimate is given for how many drops fill a 100 millilitre bottle and the...

Act 1

A video is shown of a leaking sink tap with a plug in...

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...

In this activity learners will to countdown backwards using different steps i.e. 1s, 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. This will prepare learners to count to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with zero, or from any given number. To enhance engagement, learners will release balloon ‘rockets’ when each countdown...

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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