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Kites and Darts

Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics.

In this presentation students explore non-periodic tiling patterns using templates of kites and darts, as well as discovering the many remarkable facts to be found in these tilings.

The resource is designed to explore...

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.

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Kittinger: First Man in Space

This film, from Twig World, tells the story of Joe Kittinger who made the first journey beyond Earth's atmosphere.

The key points made in the film are:

•Project Excelsior III was the American Air Force’s mission to test high altitude bailouts.

•As part of this mission Colonel Joe Kittinger...

A fast paced magnetic game, accessible to everyone but still full of strategy.

Knee Deep: Designing and Constructing a Water Pond

Aimed at primary level, this resource provides a design and technology project which links to work on the properties of materials and aspects of environmental geography. Children design and make a model of a pond and discover more about the work of engineers throughout the process. In the first lesson the context...

Knitting

This Teachers TV video features Jenni Stather, the Ethnic Minorities Achievement Co-ordinator at Shaftesbury Primary in Newham. Having organised a knitting workshop, Jenni discovered that many students with English as an additional language come from traditions in which knitting, and other handicrafts, are...

Through a series of interesting puzzles, this book leads the reader gently into an understanding of the theory of knots. Some of the puzzles can be solved by looking at the pictures, but for others a length of string or rope may be needed. The book is a mixture of puzzles and mathematical ideas.

Knots Unravelled provides a guide to knots, from using simple string to the branch of mathematics known as knot theory. 

A feature of the text is the range of tasks and activities for the...

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 is a book about all kinds of things to do and make with paper, from tricks with newspapers to paper flowers and paper sculpture...