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The Discovery of the Inert Gases
This is one of the 14 Background Books published for Stage III of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book is historical and traces the discovery of the group of elements that we now call the ‘noble gases’.
There are three parts to this...
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The Distribution of Prime Numbers
Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics.
In this activity the distribution of prime numbers, proved by Hadamard and de la Vallée Poussin in 1896, is investigated using an Excel spreadsheet program, Autograph and the Prime Number Theorem.
The resource is...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes the latest publications...
This is the second book in The DNA Detectives series.
The story is set in a beautiful seaside cove in Cornwall....
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
The dog problem
This problem explores loci. A dog stands between a fire hydrant and a tree, twice as far from the hydrant as the tree. He runs in a way so that he is always twice as far from the hydrant. What is the shape of the dog's path?
The Dolls of Confusion
This Catalyst article investigates how humans can misjudge the weights of small dense objects and large, light objects and how their perception of weight is easily fooled.
The article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science Review 2014, Volume 24, Issue 3.
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.