Resources

A lot of people eat baked beans, the Heinz factory in Wigan makes over 1.5 million cans a day. From field to plate, engineers are needed every step of the way.

In this booklet you can read about people who are engineers and think about how they might have helped the baked bean on its journey. You can see all...

How many gigatons of carbon dioxide? (infographic)

David McCandless is a data journalist and information designer with...

This giant picture book gives kids a fun and easy way to understand large numbers. Starting with ten, each page shows more and more colourful sweeties, leading up to a giant fold-out surprise - one million jelly beans!

How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change a Man?

This video features Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK, in which he comes to some surprising conclusions about the way forward.

The film is based on his new book Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air, in which Professor Mackay...

How Many Peas Fill the Classroom?

This video resource from Teachers TV features mathematics teacher Katie Slusar as she delivers a mathematical modelling lesson to a Year 7 class at Comberton Village College. Students plan how to approach the task, choose the appropriate equipment, and apply their measuring, estimation and calculating skills to...

How Many Sides

A section of a regular polygon is shown with diagonals drawn from a hidden vertex. The angle between two diagonals their corresponding sides are given. The challenge is to work out how many...

How many socks make a pair? The answer is not always two. And behind this question lies a world of maths that can be surprising, amusing and even beautiful.

Using playing cards, a newspaper,...

Following the style of How puzzling and How amazing by the same authors, this new title combines a brief history of some aspects of the development of numbers with puzzles, problems and investigations based on number...

Part of a new series of books which aim to provide a flexible resource for students at Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum.

The book covers the behaviour and properties of materials in a variety of...

A guide introducing the ways in which mathematics is working around us.

Activities, designed for nine- to fourteen-year-olds, explain the major concepts of mathematics.

The book aims to improve mental...