Resources
Pit Stop
The Pit stop activities from Cre8ate maths are designed to motivate students to investigate the performance of model solar cars through a series of racing challenges. To do this activity you will need a set of model solar racing cars which are often shared between design technology and science departments. Students...
Pitch a product
This activity focuses on promoting a product to a particular target user group. Teamwork, creativity and entrepreneurial skills are required to design, brand and market a new Nintendo Wii product.
In this activity,...
Pixel Perfection
This investigation from Cre8ate maths involves students in finding the best size screen for a television. If you have a large flat screen and view a standard analogue or digital picture the individual pixels are visible if you are sitting too close to the screen. Working in small groups of 3 or 4, students measure...
Pixel your space: geometry behind science and art images
This resource, aimed at primary learners, links mathematics, art and science. Children explore how how the number of pixels affects an image and how images from space have become clearer as technology has advanced. They then...
Pizza Fractions
As part of the series Primary Lesson Starters, this short Teachers TV film clip is designed to be shown in class to prompt discussion about fractions. When a customer orders a pizza she does not expect her friends to arrive at the restaurant and want to share it with her. How should the waitress cut the pizza so...
Pizza Fractions
Students are presented with a picture of a circle of which a fraction is shaded, a fraction written in words or a fraction written as a number and are required to complete the missing forms. Further tasks require students to identify into what fractions pizzas have been sliced. Finally, students are required to...
Pizza fractions
This STEM activity introduces pupils to fractions by giving them the opportunity to cut a pizza in a range of ways. Pupils will be able to show how pizza can be shared into equal parts and recognise halves and quarters as part of a whole unit. This activity could be used as a starter or main activity to introduce...
Pizza party modelling
This set of five lessons introduces pupils to data modelling using spreadsheets through the theme of a class pizza party. Pupils will develop their computational thinking skills of abstraction, decomposition, algorithms and evaluation and combine different types of software to present their work. These sessions...