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One of a series of titles explaining basic scientific concepts aimed at reluctant readers aged 9-11.
Although girls enter school more "maths ready" than boys, statistics show that by the time they graduate from high school most girls will have been outdistanced by boys both in critical test scores and in level of interest. What has happened in the intervening years and what can we do to stop it?
In "Feisty...
Fencing
This resource features a task that explores setting up and solving simultaneous equations in a practical context.
Jon is buying fencing for his yard. Prices are given for different combinations of posts and panels. Students use information in the task to set up and then solve a solve a pair of simultaneous...
These resources aim to broaden students' knowledge of careers in science whilst linking the curriculum to some of the work which scientists carry out at FERA in York. The primary resources provide a context for pollination, biodiversity and classification, and the secondary resource supports those sections of the...
Fera resources: classification
This KS2 resource supports learning about how living things can be classified into groups scientifically. Activities are based around tasks carried out in the ‘real world’ by scientists working for organisations such as Fera.
Activities include:
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For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution eluded the greatest minds in the world.
...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.
Fermi Estimates
This resource provides examples of solving problems using Fermi Estimates. These examples are similar to the ones covered in the resource "Estimates From Limited Data". The tasks may be suitable for group and internet access may be beneficial.
...Fermi estimation: tea in China
This resource contains a short presentation which introduces three problems where approximate solutions can be calculated.
The first activity asks students to use Fermi estimation to calculate the quantity of tea used in China in a three month period. Students are also invited to calculate an estimate of the...
A Fermi problem involves making estimates and using mathematics to answer a question, in more colloquial language they might be termed ‘back of envelope’ calculations.
Many of the questions don’t have clear cut answers, and sometimes alternative paths to solutions are possible.
The level of...