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When a tramcar frightens Dan's dog Charlie one evening, the chase leads them through a maze of busy Victorian New York streets to the house of Mr Thomas Edison.

Dan is fascinated to discover the secrets of Mr...

Flexagons are curious objects made by folding paper in special ways. Hidden inside a flexagon, and there are a number to cut out and make here, are a number of concealed faces and the challenge is to discover how to...

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.

Robert Tocquet describes also some of the virtually miraculous exploits of the famous prodigies of mental arithmetic, such as Inaudi, who could resolve mentally, in two or three minutes, problems which would take an experienced mathematician a fortnight to complete on paper, and Diamandi, who could multiply a...

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.

In this Landmark series, renowned diver and award-winning underworld photographer Darek Sepiolo explores the worlds oceans, taking in the most unique, beauitful and beguiling aquatic life from every continent on the planet.

When Miss Frizzle and her class arrive at the Planetarium they find it's closed - she won't be able to teach the children about space after all. But on the way home, the bus tilts back and zooms off into outer space...

Magic Science and Maths

This programme from Teachers TV shows how to use ‘magic tricks’ to engage and excite children in maths and science lessons. Former space scientist and now ‘math magician’, Dr Mark Biddiss, visits the Orion School in North London and demonstrates magic tricks and intriguing science investigations to a group of...

Magic square puzzles

This resource focusses on developing ability to add numbers by using grids. Designed to support outdoor learning, this activity allows the children to work within the classroom, and to take their learning outside to the playground or field - creating their own larger squares. Although this activity is designed to...

Magic Sum Puzzle

In this Bowland assessment task, students solve a puzzle known as a magic sum, in which the numbers 1 to 7 have to be placed in a grid such that both lines of numbers add to the same total. Students have to choose a logical way to solve the puzzle, make a conjecture then attempt to justify it. Students form...