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Calculating volume

This worksheet challenges students to answer a series of questions themed around calculating the volume of products. It provides worked examples, examiners top tips and answers to each question. The resource is useful for teaching maths content in design and technology, or as a maths activity sheet.

Calculating volumes of compound objects

This lesson develops the concept of calculating the volume of compound objects. In particular, students enhance their understanding of:

  • Computing measurements using formulas.
  • Decomposing compound shapes into simpler ones.
  • Using right triangles and their properties to solve real-world...

Calculating where Space begins?

This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, begins with a video that names and describes some the different layers of the atmosphere, with the aim of explaining where the ...

Calculation

From the series Great Lesson Ideas, this Teachers TV video shows how calculation games are used to make multiplication and addition fun at Eleanor Palmer School in Camden, North London.

Year Three students play a game called Four rolls to a hundred . Organised into teams, they roll a die and decide...

Calculation Activities for Students Aged 11-13

A selection of resources published by BEAM for teachers of Key Stage Three mathematics. It includes challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding. The activities and their mathematical content are: *Digits problem - looking...

Calculation Activities for Students Aged 3-5

Published by BEAM, this collection of calculation activities offers opportunities for early years students to practice their understanding of number and number recognition.

*Make 10 dots - making 10

*Counting spots - single digit addition and comparison

*Grapes - making 5

*Who has most...

Calculation Activities for Students Aged 5-7

A selection of resources published by BEAM for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles to help students practise and consolidate their mathematical understanding.

The activities, presented with their mathematical content, are:

*Words - recognising multiples of 5...

Calculation Activities for Students Aged 7-9

A selection of resources published by BEAM for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding. The activities, and their mathematical content, are: *How many squares - using...

Calculation Activities for Students Aged 9-11

A selection of resources published by BEAM for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations and resources to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding.

The activities and their mathematical content are:

*Ben's cakes -...

Calculation Games for Students Aged 11-13

A selection of games published by BEAM for teachers of Key Stage Three mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles which help students to consolidate their mathematical understanding.

The activities and their mathematical content are:

*Choose and divide - division using decimals

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