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Problem solving challenge: Fire detection with the Internet of Things

In this 5 hour Mathematics teaching pack, students are asked to consider how the internet of things can connect the previously unconnected, and how this can be used in fire detection systems.

Students are asked to work towards a CREST Discovery Award by designing a connected fire detection system in teams...

Problem solving challenge: using computational thinking and the Internet of Things to improve fire safety

This five hour teaching pack examines how everyday technologies can be connected via the Internet Of Things (IoT) to improve fire safety. 

From the sensors...

Problem solving challenge: using design and the Internet of Things to improve fire fighter safety

This five hour teaching pack supports students to research, design and prototype their own Internet of things product to enhance the working lives of firefighters.

This questions book provides a stimulating resource for pupils and teachers, for classwork, homework and revision. Numerous questions cover the skills required to handle, evaluate and process information, to draw conclusions and to make predictions.

Using this activity based approach it encourages students...

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.

Problem solving in mathematics: realising the vision through better assessment

This ACME report from June 2016 looks at problem solving in mathematics, with particular focus on summative assessment.

Within the report ACME welcomes the strong emphasis on problem solving in recent reforms. It calls for "strong collaboration between the mathematics community, the Department for Education...

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.

Problem Solving in Primary Maths - Review

In this programme from Teachers TV, Professor Lindsay Logan and Isabel Murphy review the Teachers TV programme Problem Solving in Primary Maths - the Session with teacher Mark Valentine.

Logan was responsible for...

Problem Solving in Primary Maths - the Session

In this programme from Teachers TV Mark Valentine, teaching head of Nethermill Primary School near Dumfries, gives a group of four upper Key Stage Two children a challenging problem to solve, looking at the interior and exterior angles of polygons and how they relate to the number of sides.

The problem...

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.