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Do you find maths difficult? Then this is the book for you. It's a basic guide to the sort of maths which crop uo in everyday life - this book explains with clear examples and simple exercises all about the metres, litres and kilograms you need when decorating, cooking and shopping - how to read timetable and...
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...
This book explains dyscalculia from the...
It Must Be True - I Read It in the Paper!
A Catalyst article about scientists publishing their results in journals. Newspapers, magazines and TV programmes are full of stories based on science and technology. But can these articles be trusted? This article looks at the way in which scientists try to ensure that their own publications are reliable. It makes...
IT specialist
Felix is an IT specialist at IBM, he discusses his role in this video. He is involved in designing, implementing, building or testing customers’ computer systems. He enjoyed the sciences, business and maths at school , studied at University in London and was able to work at IBM during his third year placement. He...
Wallace looks at the often bizarre behaviour of females and males in the animal world, showing what they will do to attract each other's attention, who makes the home, who looks after the young, who share the work,...
Each book in this series explores a particular area of learning with a simple narrative text and beautiful illustrations which, where appropriate, are labelled or given very simple captions. This differentiated text gently introduces readers to some of the methods of extracting information from a non-fiction book,...
It's a Gas! is one of four exciting new science songs in the cross-curricular Song sheets series.
Each of the songs links with the KS2 Science curriculum. All four songs are catchy, easy to learn and cover key...
This book provides many numerical tricks, suitable for the classroom enrichment or general mathematical entertainment, together with full mathematical explanations as to why the tricks actually work. There is also a section dealing with mathematical card tricks that require no special card-handling skills to...