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Pastry product
Students from The Heathlands School met a STEM Ambassador. The visit provided students with insight into a career in cooking and nutrition, focussing on the many and varied kinds of pastry and how they are made. This input was very helpful during the four week pastry unit.
Over four weeks, students...
Pastry shop problem
A shop is selling cakes and cupcakes. The owner believes that $13 is unlucky and so wants to avoid ever charging this amount. The challenge is to price the items so that the bill could come to any amount above 13. The challenge makes use of factors and multiples. This resource is suitable for Key Stage 3.
...Patchwork
This resource features a task that involves generating sequences, finding an nth term rule, and solving equations in a practical context.
Students investigate a sequence of square patchwork cushions designed using combinations of right angled triangles and squares. Students then derive nth term rules for the...
Patchwork Cushions
A square patchwork cushion is made up of right angled triangles along the edges and squares in the middle. The first cushion made consists of only four triangles, the second is made up of eight triangles and four squares. Students are required to explore this pattern to find connections between the size of the...
The secrets of geometric and op art are not twentieth-century discoveries. Centuries ago, creators of patchwork quilts knew how to tease and dazzle the eye with lines that interweave and shapes that emerge and recede as you gaze. This book is both an exciting design-discovery colouring book and a limitless source...
In this fourth volume of a series, Sawyer discusses ideas of reform in mathematical education. The book shows how various...
Pathogens
These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:
- Recall that ‘germs’ are disease-causing microorganisms also known as pathogens, including bacteria, fungi and viruses.
- Recall that pathogens cause some but not all diseases in...
Produced by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, these resources provide extensive infromation on a range of disease-causing organisms. Resources include student worksheets, presentations, animations and teacher guidance. Materials are suitable for a wide age range and will help students to understand: * bacterial...
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 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.