The journal is aimed at practitioners and educationalists, it aims to report and reflect on

• Innovative and interesting practice in the teaching and learning of Core Maths
• Classroom evaluations of Core Maths, both qualitative and quantitative
• Problem...

This short task considers a car journey. Students are given a description of a car journey. They must draw a distance-time graph for this journey. Subsequent questions involve interpreting the graph drawn.

The resource comes with both scored and unscored student work. This is useful for peer assessment and...

A Catalyst article about physicists working at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider who hope to have received the first results from what is probably the biggest, most expensive and most ambitious scientific experiment ever carried out. Later, they hope to solve the mystery of the fundamental forces of nature.

The...

Produced by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, this booklet uses the context of exoplanets and alien worlds to develop students understanding of speed, distance and time. Included is an online video that discusses where and how we might find alien worlds. Questions and answers are included that test a student’s...

On Earth, humans experience the effects of gravity pulling on the human body which applies a constant force. This constant force is essential for building the healthy, strong bones we need on Earth. The force can be increased, and bones can be made stronger by doing regular weight bearing physical activities such...

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...

This resource from the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT) is the 2011 challenge. The Junior Mathematical Olympiad consists of a two-hour paper of more in-depth mathematical problems to which there are two sections: Section A requires answers only whereas full...

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...

Malcolm is a junior software engineer at Realtime Worlds, he discusses his role in this video. The role is an entry level code programming role. At school he studied Advanced Level Maths, which greatly helped him during his studies of  Computer games technology at Dundee University. He took part in a digital...

This resource, aimed at primary level, links to the topics of living things and their habitats and seasonal changes. The colourful booklet provides a step-by-step guide to creating a pond, large or small, to provide a habitat in which frogs, newts and other wildlife flourish. It looks at the value of wildlife ponds...