Check up 1 the first of the guides from Nuffield is complementary to Mathematics Begins to which there are numerous references, it is strongly recommended that this guide is not used independently.

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The Nuffield Mathematics Project Check-up Guides were intended to provide information on the students' progress. As traditional tests were difficult to administer in the new atmosphere of individual discovery it was the intention of the authors to replace these by...

From the Integrating Mathematical Problem Solving project by Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI), this activity for post-16 students demonstrates that the acidity of a solution depends on the number of hydrogen ions per litre; the number of hydrogen ions per litre varies so much that a logarithmic scale is...

This resource support the learning of the language associated with pattern and number sequences. The aim is for students to:

• To identify patterns within certain sequences of numbers;
• To determine whether certain sequences of numbers follow given rules;
• To extend those sequences of...

This Core Maths task is linked to the Baby boom task and explores standardising Normal distributions by analysing the weight of eggs.

Chicken and egg: Teacher guidance
This teacher guidance gives an overview of the task...

These materials are provided by Cre8ate maths and are aimed at supporting the teaching of mathematics in the context of childcare.

The resources consist of Healthy Childhood, Keeping Baby Warm, Nappy Changing Challenge, Painting the Playground and Playground Design giving students the opportunity to...

These resources from Shropshire Centre for Mathematics Education provide a framework to enhance students' mathematical experience at Key Stage One and Key Stage Two. They look at strategies which can be implemented to support the expectations of the National Curriculum...

The aim of this survey was to evaluate the effectiveness of actions taken by local authorities in relation to children and young people who are missing from education or in danger of becoming so. It considers whether legislation and guidance support the local authorities effectively in protecting and educating them...

These resources, from the Nuffield Foundation, follow a previous study which reviewed the available research on how students learn mathematics. Probability is the focus here and this review, published in 2012, was commissioned to explore several aspects of the topic....

This edition of the Computing at School newsletter contains articles covering:

*CAS community resources

*BCS Certificate in Computer Science Teaching

*Master Teachers

*Pedagogy in computing teaching and across the curriculum

*The Barefoot Computing project

*Computational...

In this activity from the Nuffield Foundation students use the Chinese postman algorithm, also called the Route Inspection Problem, to solve practical problems. The College Open Day problem provides an introduction to the concept, and asks students to investigate the minimum distance someone would have to travel to...

In this code-breaking activity from the IET, pupils carry out maths calculations to break codes based on the zodiac animals of the Chinese New Year. 

The activity could be used as a main lesson activity to reinforce basic...

This report focuses on progression from post-16 education in schools and colleges into STEM first degree programmes and proposes a number of recommendations for improving levels of communication among the main stakeholders.

SCORE commissioned the Centre for Education and Industry, which is based at the...