Department for Education Standards Unit Improving Learning in Mathematics 'Other' materials provide activities to explore the properties of graph in decision mathematics, the equations of motion and solving problems using Newton's second law.

This article, from the Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) publication ‘Mathematics Teaching’, is taken from MT217.

Jenni Ingram and Robert Ward-Penny give their thoughts on classrooms today by examining the variety of activities that can be seen in the mathematics classroom. Students are frequently...

This game invites children to work as a team to build up a sequential model of the Universe in stages, each stage being many times larger in scale than the last. The resource contains copies of the pictures (as PDF files) and detailed teachers' notes. There is a set of...

This resource linked to the topic of seasonal changes contains a display banner showing the changing of the seasons from Spring to Summer, Autumn to Winter. It is ideal to use as part of a classroom display when discussing the different seasons in early years and lower primary. The display poster has been provided...

This activity is designed as a ‘virtual mission’. Students will play the part of Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) scientists to the scenario of a possible asteroid impact with the Earth. By following the story of the mission (led by an automated powerpoint), students will apply their understanding of kinetic energy,...

This booklet is unusual in this series as it develops one theme, genetic inheritance, to show the use of...

This creative research project allows children working at primary level to discover our closest neighbours in space and develop their communication skills. Working in groups, children research the eight planets, comets and asteroids in our Solar System. They find out about moons and rings, which planets have them...

Work done in this Nuffield 13 - 16 module followed from the S unit called ‘Cars on the move’. This D unit provided enough material for eight double periods during a Further Science course and built on the content of the S units for Single Science. 

The teachers’ guide included 15 worksheets to supplement the...

In this activity students explore the use of mathematics in a disease management context. Students assume the role of scientists attempting to contain the spread of a dangerous virus and are expected to locate infected people, develop a successful antidote and manage a large-scale vaccination programme. Students...

This resource from the Nuffield Foundation provides weather data that students use to consider which month would be the best to hold an outdoor gig. The activity gives students practice in using either a calculator or a spreadsheet to calculate mean and range values....

Outdoor classroom day is part of a campaign to ensure that children spend some time outdoors every day. So that schools can participate on a day that fits with their term dates, the UK and Ireland campaign celebrates Outdoor classroom cay twice each year, in May and November.

The resources compiled in this...