Resources
Percentages
This resource contains eleven instant maths ideas covering a whole range of suggestions that may be used as starter questions, extension questions or probing questions to assess understanding. Topics include: comparing fractions by converting to percentages, exploring the difference between increasing by 200% and...
Percentages
Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on percentages and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years. Each section offers an overview of a...
This sub-collection of materials from the dy/dan collection contains three resources that bring mathematical storytelling to the classroom in the context of ‘percentages and fractions’. Resources comprise:
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Act One: a video or photograph to provide a ‘hook’ to the problem
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Act Two:...
Percentages in finance: assessment
To complete this Core Maths students need to be familiar with financial concepts including taxation, National Insurance, and buying and selling shares.
The assessment task os based on the use of...
Perception
This article looks at how signals from the eyes are interpreted by the brain, unconscious perceptions, and what brain disorders can tell us about consciousness.
Perfect and Mersenne Numbers
Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics.
In this presentation the definition of a perfect number is explained and students are challenged to show that 496 is a perfect...
In the 'Perfect Maths Lesson' the author draws from his experience as a secondary maths teacher and offers support and ideas for engaging and challenging learners.
Make your own robots, monsters and superheroes. Attack your friends with a firing catapult or challenge colleagues to a game of desktop bowling.
This series delivers key science curriculum requirements such as adaptation, behaviour, feeding, habitats, lifecycles and migration via interesting and unusual plants and animals.
Each book features the plants...