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Maths in Real Life: Classroom Challenge

This resource from, the Maths Careers website, includes eight maths activities and was created by More Maths Grads. The activity was designed to be used with able Year 7 or Year 8 pupils, in teams of four or five, and should last around an hour.

The eight activities are:

1. Nets of Cubes

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Maths in Sport - Non-Soccer Booklets

These four Eigen publications booklets provide a range of data handling activities based on four different sports. As well as the calculation of simple statistics the encourage the production of graphical representation of information to assist in the analysis and...

Maths in sport - soccer booklets

These three Eigen publications booklets provide a range of data handling activities based on football. The booklets largely focus on calculation of means and the use of tallies, frequency tables and bar graphs. However, they also encourage students to look at rather...

Maths in television is part of a range of photocopiable teaching resources to engage students with the real-life application of mathematics. Maths in television topics include the types of popular TV programmes watched by millions of people nationwide each day.

This book is full of practical tasks that focus on the human body through topics such as archeaology, art, criminal investigations and athletic records. In many topics, students collect, present and analyse their own data - engaging even the most reluctant students in this subject area. Students solve crimes by...

Maths in the environment provides an environmental view of maths using topics such as human population, animal lifecycles and mathematical shapes in nature to engage students and help them to develop a wider understanding of how maths is a part of everyday life. Capitalising on students' interest in green issues...

Maths in the Navy

Teachers TV provide this resource which features two teachers from two very different working environments. Understanding algebra can make the difference between life and death in the navy and between pass and failure at GCSE.

Peps McCrae, Head of Mathematics at Falmer High School in Brighton, is concerned...

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Maths in Your Head - Lesson Starters and Enders

A compilation of whole class activities from SMILE intended for use as lesson starters or as part of a plenary session. The activities are categorised into five sections. Each section contains a number of activity ideas each consisting of a clear aim, a full description and suggested variations. The activity...

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