Diane Dalby- Senior Research Fellow at the School of Educations, University of Nottingham- discussed how Core Maths can help to change attitudes towards mathematics in post-16 students.

Discover the experiences of one Assistant Head of Mathematics responsible for the delivery of Core Maths within their College, while also having the role of Core Maths Lead for her local cluster.

She has, like many teachers, found Core Maths to be a very different teaching experience compared to other...

In this video Kevin Gilmartin – Colleges Specialist at the Association of School and College Leaders- shares his perspective on Core Maths.

In November 2015 a total of 182 centres delivering Core Maths , including schools, colleges and UTCs, completed a short survey on how they integrated the course into their timetabling provision.

The survey asked questions about the time allocated to and the arrangements for teaching Core Maths.  Further...

In this video Sue Hough- Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University- discusses how Core Maths can help students to think about real-life problems and how this can develop their mathematics skills.

EV refers to Electric Vehicles and in this lesson pupils explore data, statistics, graphs and infographics related to road traffic and emissions from cars in the UK...

In this lesson students examine whether reports of extreme cold weather provide evidence that global warming is not happening. They look at the New York Times graphs of summer temperature distributions for the northern hemisphere for different periods and interrogate/critique these graphs.

Students will...

In this lesson students explore data showing how much carbon dioxide different species of tree absorb from the atmosphere.

Students interpret data, statistics, graphs and infographics and make predictions and draw conclusions...

In this lesson students develop their estimation and proportional reasoning skills, developing a sense of scale of large ...

Two videos on digital technology for Core Maths by Douglas Bulter. The first video summarises a task group report on technology and the second looks at ‘Finding data from interesting sources’.

Digitial technology for Core Maths 1

In this resource students deal with the problem of administering doses of a prescribed drug so that the body does not have too little or an excess of the drug. An understanding of half life is required. Students do not need to use more complicated formulae for...

In this Nuffield activity students investigate how different numbers of squares can be joined corner to corner and the effect their arrangement has on the area of the rectangle that encloses the squares.

The key...

The first sheet of this excel file shows a set of data in a scatter plot. The line of best fit can be drawn and a description of the type of correlation can be revealed along with the equation of the trend line. The other sheet shows the value of cars at various ages. The scatter plot shows the data and there are a...