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Quantifying CREST: CREST Silver Award evaluation - a pro bono economics research report for the British Science Association
The British Science Association has been running the STEM enrichment programme for young people for almost 30 years. This report is the first quantitative evidence of the impact of extra-curricular STEM interventions.
The report reveals that undertaking a CREST Silver Award appears to have a significant...
Quantitative Data
This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 7B which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the second half of year 7. Quantative data covers how vertical lines can be used to display discrete quantative data, measures of central tendancy; mean, mode, median, measures of dispersion; the range and how...
Quantities and units
This short video explains the importance of being aware of symbols for quantities (both scalar and vector) and units. Physics uses letters from our alphabet (both upper and lowercase letter) and from other alphabets (e.g., λ, lambda and θ, theta).
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.
Quantity Surveyor A Day in the Office
This maths in construction resource explores some common maths that a Quantity Surveyor uses while at work—most commonly to do with calculating areas and assessing the cost of a project. The session includes a group activity where students work together to calculate the costs of paint that would be needed for a...
Quantum cooling to (near) absolute zero
This video explains how zero point energy in helium-3 and helium-4 atoms means that atoms, even at absolute zero vibrate. The smaller size of the helium-3 means it vibrates more. In a mixture of helium-3 and helium-4 the helium-3 atoms can get closer to helium-4 than to other helium-3 (less vibration in helium-4...
'Quantum Enigma' is a readable guide to the basics of quantum theory for those with no detailed grounding in physics.
Quantum entanglement and spooky action at a distance
This video will challenge students. It shows how particle spins of entangled particles and employing the conservation of angular momentum, can be used to solve a problem that Einstein found rather frustrating. The problem: If we measure the spin of one of the particles we automatically know the other, because it...
Quantum Key Distribution
Produced in 2015, these resources look at the development of encoding messages and how technology and science has developed to allow us to keep messages secure. Looking at unintuitive quantum properties of light, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principal and entanglement, students will see how keys can be shared to ensure...
This astronomy series looks at different aspects of the universe we live in.